http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Nation 60 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:44:49 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/800153.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/800153.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:01 EST The president and chief executive officer of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts is leaving after 10 years with the organization. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/798975.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/798975.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:01 EST A dozen retired generals met with President-elect Barack Obama's top legal advisors Wednesday, pressing their case to overturn some of the Bush administration's anti-terror policies. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/797218.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/797218.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:04 EST Rejecting prosecutors' calls for a life term, a federal judge on Wednesday reimposed a 22-year prison sentence for an al-Qaeda-trained terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the turn of the millennium. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/796513.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/796513.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:17 EST Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said in a statement Tuesday that he will leave his post Jan. 20 when President-elect Barack Obama's administration comes into office. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/796431.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/796431.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:46 EST Defense Secretary Robert Gates signaled a willingness Tuesday to forge ahead with two key priorities for the incoming Obama administration: accelerating the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and shutting down the Guantánamo Bay detention center. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/795543.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/795543.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:36 EST President-elect Barack Obama's choice to become the next attorney general, Eric Holder, once defended the Bush administration's arguments for holding detainees at Guantánamo Bay, a position that is at odds with his more recent comments. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/791765.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/791765.html Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:44 EST Russia's president met with revolutionary icon Fidel Castro on Friday, discussing Guantánamo Bay and hopes for a multipolar world with Cuba's former leader during a tour of Latin America aimed at raising Moscow's presence in the region. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/788782.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/788782.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:48 EST Cuban President Raúl Castro said in an interview released Wednesday that he would like to meet President-elect Barack Obama on ''neutral ground'' -- and he suggested the American Navy base at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/788746.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/788746.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:52 EST Osama bin Laden's former driver returned home to Yemen on Wednesday to serve out his remaining prison sentence after the U.S. released him from Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/787759.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/787759.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:51 EST Guantánamo guards turned Osama bin Laden's driver over to Yemen on Tuesday, to serve out the last month of his war crimes sentence in his homeland and then likely return to the career that made him infamous -- driving. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/785987.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/785987.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:43 EST A federal judge on Monday refused to block the military trial of a Canadian held at Guantánamo Bay and charged with killing a U.S. soldier while still a juvenile. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/785501.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/785501.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:43 EST A federal appeals court seemed reluctant on Monday to release 17 Turkic Muslims being held without charges at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, questioning whether judges rather than a president can order their freedom into the United States. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/785246.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/785246.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:10 EST South Carolina lawmakers are mobilizing against the possible transfer of terrorist suspects from the Guantánamo Bay military prison to the Charleston naval brig under President-elect Barack Obama's pledge to close the controversial U.S. facility in Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/783923.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/783923.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Prison camp staff will soon start offering art and geology classes to long-held war-on-terrorism detainees. English is now being taught as military jailers tinker with how to distract captured jihadists. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/781693.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/781693.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:08 EST Indonesia will seek access to an alleged Southeast Asian terror chief after the United States closes its prison at Guantánamo Bay, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/780752.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/780752.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:08 EST A group of conservatives is chastising the Bush administration for refusing to free 17 Turkic Muslims being held without charges at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, saying their continued detention defies legal principles and ``undermines our standing in the world.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800423.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800423.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:31 EST Christmas decorations are in place and holiday music fills the atrium, yet a gloom punctuates the shopping season at the Westroads Mall. Employees, their families and friends planned to gather Friday at the steps of the Von Maur department store in remembrance of the eight people killed a year ago in the deadliest mall shooting in U.S. history. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800417.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800417.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:21 EST U.S. charitable foundations gave money to international causes at record levels in 2007 and their contributions are likely to increase again this year, says a report by an organization that monitors philanthropy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800396.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800396.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:56 EST Three federal judges seem convinced that overcrowding in California prisons is so bad it leads to unconstitutional conditions. Now they must weigh whether ordering the release of nearly a third of the state's inmates would be a public safety nightmare. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800377.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800377.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:36 EST O.J. Simpson is going to prison; the question is for how long. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800068.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800068.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:41 EST The conductor aboard the commuter train that collided with a freight train in September told investigators the warning light along the track was green before the crash that killed 25 people, his attorney said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800062.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800062.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:31 EST Conservation groups filed formal protests Thursday against what they call a "fire sale" of oil-and-gas drilling leases in Utah being conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800038.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/800038.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:16 EST A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to answering an online advertisement for baby-sitting work and then using the client's child to make a pornographic video. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796918.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796918.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Humbled and fighting for survival, the country's once-mighty automakers went to Congress with new promises to change their ways in return for a bailout as large as $34 billion. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/798662.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/798662.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:01 EST President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday named a third former Democratic presidential rival to his administration with his formal announcement of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his nominee for commerce secretary. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796903.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796903.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Miami investor Prem Lalvani was on a routine business trip to Mumbai, India's commercial capital: meetings during the day, drinks and dinner with clients at night, back in the United States by the end of the week. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796921.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796921.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Relations between China and Europe have frayed suddenly, and a caustic diplomatic row has given way to suggestions that China is again targeting France as a whipping boy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796907.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796907.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:01 EST The only thing that might be longer than a bone-rattling Minnesota winter is the state's never-ending 2008 Senate race, which Jane Burton says is getting downright ridiculous. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796889.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796889.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:01 EST The nation's governors got to work Tuesday, taking their case to the president-elect for a $136 billion infrastructure spending program that they hope will funnel immediate government money toward bridges, roads and rail lines in the hopes of creating jobs and spurring the economy out of recession. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796909.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:01 EST It wasn't so long ago that thousands of passers-by would spend a couple of days on a bus to swarm into this cow town in the heart of the Sonora Desert. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796896.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796896.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:01 EST It was about 10 p.m. on a frigid Sunday in the Arizona desert when Avelina, a 24-year-old Mexican textile factory worker, heard footsteps and shouting: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents had found her. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796513.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/796513.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:17 EST Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said in a statement Tuesday that he will leave his post Jan. 20 when President-elect Barack Obama's administration comes into office. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/795335.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/795335.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01 EST The selection of experienced centrists -- Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates and James L. Jones -- to head President-elect Barack Obama's national security team points to the possibility that on Iraq, the incoming commander-in-chief may take a more measured path to ending American military involvement than he described during the presidential campaign. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/795346.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/795346.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Facing financial woes at home, states continued to press Congress to boost the economy by giving federal money to folks they know will spend it: the unemployed, the poor and road builders, among others. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/793917.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/793917.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Cooper City locksmith Stuart Hess puffed up to 40 cigarettes a day for about 40 years before he died of lung cancer at age 55 in 1997. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799993.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799993.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:46 EST Authorities say a husband-and-wife burglary team robbed about 60 homes in rural eastern Missouri and deputies discovered 100 guns at the home of the man accused of selling the stolen loot online. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799981.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799981.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:36 EST Before evangelist Tony Alamo's arrest on federal sex charges, three girls who lived at his Arkansas compound told an FBI agent that he had sexually abused them, and one said he had threatened to have "someone take care of you" if she talked, according to a newly unsealed FBI affidavit. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799980.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799980.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:36 EST A Dallas man was found guilty Thursday of capital murder in the stabbing deaths of his wife and her two young sons. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799974.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799974.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:31 EST As of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799953.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799953.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:11 EST Federal prosecutors say philanthropist Alberto Vilar might flee because he could face the rest of his life in prison. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799931.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799931.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:41 EST The leader of a Wisconsin Salvation Army will lose his job if he goes ahead with plans to marry outside the organization. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799914.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799914.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:16 EST A Texas Supreme Court justice was fined $29,000 on Thursday after the state ethics commission found that a law firm provided what amounted to an illegal campaign contribution by giving him a $168,000 discount on legal fees. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799906.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799906.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:11 EST A second man has died from injuries suffered in an oil refinery explosion and fire in Texas. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799902.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799902.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:06 EST Prosecutors dropped all charges Thursday against a woman accused of burning her son in an oven, saying that continuing with the case would harm the boy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799899.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799899.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:01 EST Nine Illinois Secretary of State employees face suspension without pay because they looked up President-elect Barack Obama's street address in state records, officials said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799888.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799888.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:46 EST A man who spent three decades in prison after being framed by the FBI for a gangland murder was arrested Thursday on illegal gaming charges. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799871.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/799871.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:26 EST Medical marijuana became legal in Michigan on Thursday, but smoking a joint could still get patients arrested because the regulations needed to protect them won't be ready for months. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/800133.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/800133.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:01 EST a With sailors lining the rails at attention, the American Navy destroyer USS Cole sailed into Port Everglades Thursday on a four-day visit to the city where it had its coming-out party in 1996. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/798667.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/798667.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:01 EST President-elect Barack Obama called Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen on her cellphone Wednesday to congratulate her on her reelection. She hung up on him. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/798659.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/798659.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Tobacco giant Philip Morris USA might be partially freed from a $145 million punitive judgment, from the sounds of some Supreme Court justices Wednesday.