Rights groups turn down Gitmo tour
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Three human rights groups said Friday they will spurn an invitation to tour the Guantanamo Bay prison next month because it doesn t include an opportunity to speak with prisoners. Amnesty International USA, the American C...
 2.7K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 71.0 Rights groups turn down Gitmo tour
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Three human rights groups said Friday they will spurn an invitation to tour the Guantanamo Bay prison next month because it doesn t include an opportunity to speak with prisoners. Amnesty International USA, the American C...
2.7K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 71.0 Obama allies draw comparisons to Bush on security issues
WASHINGTON New cracks are opening in the relationship between President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in Congress over his desire to continue Bush-era tactics against terrorism and his opposition to protecting reporters from revealing their s...
4.9K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 71.0 Hijacking suspect faces arraignment
NEW YORK (AP) A man accused of using weapons hidden in a diaper bag to terrorize airline passengers while hijacking their plane and diverting it to Cuba in 1968 faces a courthouse arraignment this week after being arrested at an airport. Longtime f...
1.2K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 112.0 Ideals over action?
WASHINGTON The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what? For one of America s youngest presidents, in office less than nine months and only for 12 days...
5.5K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 71.0 U.S. soccer team heads into political hotbed
MIAMI SHORES, Fla. The United States is used to playing tough away matches, but its World Cup qualifier Saturday in Honduras will have a special twist. The Central American country is in the midst of a power struggle following a June coup that push...
3.9K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 71.0 Gitmo detainee ordered released
WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge has ordered the release of a Kuwaiti man held at Guantanamo Bay and rebuked the U.S. government for relying on scant evidence, uncredible witnesses and coerced confessions to hold him for more than seven years. In an...
6.0K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 71.0 Hondurans ordered off streets after violent night
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) Honduras interim government extended an already long curfew through most of Wednesday after police skirmished with backers of ousted President Manuel Zelaya throughout the night and arrested more than 100 people for vand...
5.3K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 71.0 Crocodiles, wildlife key to Cuba's tourism
BOCA DE GUAMA, Cuba ” Crocodile 0383 is too tiny to be menacing. Three weeks old and barely the length of a candy bar, the gray and brownish-yellow beast already has all 64 jagged teeth, which glint like crushed glass in the tropical sun. ...
5.8K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 618.0 Inform first, then demand reform
Health care is one of several crucial issues impacting the quality of life in the United States. As so often happens, the ranters and chanters occupy much of the news space, while serious discussion of key components of the problems of uninsured Am...
2.6K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 71.0 Day Planner
ONGOING PhotoZone Gallery Gallery One, 715 Quince St., Florence. Broadway Bound play Runs through Sept. 27., 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday matinee, Little Theatre on the Bay, 2100 Sherman Ave, North Bend. (756-4336, www.ltob.net ) Si...
18.8K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 71.0 Day Planner
ONGOING PhotoZone Gallery Gallery One, 715 Quince St., Florence. Broadway Bound play Runs through Sept. 27., 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday matinee, Little Theatre on the Bay, 2100 Sherman Ave, North Bend. (756-4336, www.ltob.net ) Si...
20.6K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 71.0 White House will question terror suspects
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama has moved more forcefully than ever to abandon Bush administration interrogation policies, approving creation of a special White House unit for questioning terrorism suspects, as Attorney General Eric Holder weighs...
4.6K - Aug. 24, 2009; scored 71.0 Bolt smashes record in 200
BERLIN Teeth clenched, Usain Bolt grimaced as he churned toward the finish line, hoping to coax a fraction more out of his 6-foot-5 frame. The big, yellow numbers flashing another world record time told the Jamaican sprinter he had gotten what he w...
5.8K - Aug. 21, 2009; scored 112.0 Women continue Jamaica s dominance
BERLIN Shelly-Ann Fraser closed her eyes as she crossed the finish line, almost afraid to open them back up and glance at the Olympic Stadium scoreboard. As if she had anything to worry about. Fraser won with apparent ease in a time of 10.73 second...
5.3K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 71.0 Jobs trump fears of terrorists in Michigan town
STANDISH, Mich. To many people struggling in this job-starved part of rural Michigan, unemployment is a bigger threat than terrorists. With unemployment at more than 17 percent, many residents say they would welcome detainees from Guantanamo Bay in...
5.4K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 71.0 Yemeni at Guantanamo: prisoner without a country
WASHINGTON (AP) Legally speaking, Guantanamo Bay detainee Alla Ali bin Ali Ahmed should be a free man. He remains behind barbed wire in Cuba because he has nowhere to go. Ahmed, a 26-year-old Yemeni captured at a Pakistan guesthouse in 2002, was or...
4.0K - Aug. 2, 2009; scored 71.0 Young detainee faces return to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) A judge who has grown impatient with the Obama administration's handling of a young Guantanamo Bay detainee is preparing to decide whether he'll go home to Afghanistan or to the United States for prosecution. U.S. District Judge Ell...
1.0K - Jul. 30, 2009; scored 71.0 U.S. image abroad surges
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's popularity has boosted America's image abroad even though deep suspicions about the U.S. persist in the Muslim world, according to a poll released Thursday. The survey of two dozen nations conducted this spring b...
4.3K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 71.0 Researchers unveil slavery records
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico A collection of slavery records newly available over the Internet may help thousands of people trace their families back to Africa through St. Croix, a former slave-trading hub in the Caribbean. The records, which went online ...
3.9K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 71.0 | 
