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The federal government will buy the nearly empty Thomson Correctional Center, where it hopes to put up to 100 detainees. President Obama has directed the federal government to buy a nearly empty state prison in rural Illinois to house up to 100 detainees held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said late Monday.
WILMINGTON - Call it the economy, good weather, or just sheer advertising, whatever it was, the turnout for Tuesday’s primary election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat was higher than expected with 22 percent of Wilmington voters going to the polls. And like the rest of the state, Wilmington overwhelmingly chose Martha Coakley and Scott Brown to go forward to the senatorial election in January.
TEWKSBURY - Call it the economy, good weather, polling location consolidation or just sheer advertising, whatever it was, the turnout for Tuesday’s primary election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat was higher than expected with just over 24 percent of Tewksbury’s voters going to the polls. And like the rest of the state, Tewksbury overwhelmingly chose Martha Coakley and Scott Brown to go forward to ...
New York - The self-proclaimed al-Qaeda mastermind of the 2001 terrorist attacks will be heading back to the scene of the c...
Here are letters to the editor from Daily News editions of Dec. 15, 2009:Letter of the Day: Whom do we punish?Editor, Naples Daily News.In the last few days there has been a lot of mail concerning the kicking incident in one of our schools.Many refer to the inadequacy of the punishment. But who should be punished?To punish the children is like putting a Band-Aid on a cancerous growth.These kids ...
Barack Obama is a traitor. That’s what Dick Cheney said. Too bad Tiger Woods stepped on the story. The decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in New York, said Cheney on the eve of Obama’s speech on Afghanistan, is “likely to give encouragement – aid and comfort – to the enemy.”
Barack Obama is a traitor. That's what Dick Cheney said. Too bad Tiger Woods stepped on the story. The decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed...
All hail General Stanley McChrystal, who has won his war for 30,000 more troops to be deployed to a country whose government is so rotten and corrupt many of its citizens prefer the Taliban.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn’t believe him.
On November 4, protesters gathered outside the gates of the U.S. embassy in Tehran to mark the 30th anniversary of the hostage-taking. There were the usual government-backed "Death to America" protests--celebrating the then-young revolutionaries and their enduring fanaticism.
On October 18, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel appeared on the Sunday morning talk shows and, in the process of answering questions about Barack Obama's strategy on Afghanistan, accused the Bush administration of failing to ask the most basic questions about that country and our war there.
Jytte Klausen's book on the Danish cartoon crisis of 2005-06 opens in an unusual way--with a hand-wringing preemptive apology from Yale University Press for not reprinting (despite its profession to be "an institution deeply committed to free expression") the 12 caricatures of the prophet Muhammad that gave rise to the eponymous crisis in the first place.
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) - A former Purdue University graduate student convicted of threatening to kill President George W. Bush and others in Internet postings has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.
Gracing the cover of January's Golf Digest will be none other than Pres. Barack Obama, joined by disgraced golfer Tiger Woods and the oy-vey-inducing tag-line "10 Tips Obama Can Take from Tiger."
The advent of global warming, the dangers of declaring war on Iraq, the power and reach of the Internet. Is there another American political figure who's been so right, so prescient, about so many things -- and, in turn, so loathed by a consistent vocal opposition? No, there's only one Al Gore.
Despite Barack Obama’s high-minded words about “just wars” and human rights – most recently in his Nobel Peace Prize speech – the U.S. President has shielded officials from George W. Bush’s administration from accountability for torture and other war crimes, prompting stern rebukes from leading advocates of civil liberties.
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