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 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:53:43 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com 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/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/780892.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/780892.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:16 EST In the first ruling of its kind, a federal judge ordered the speedy release Thursday of five Algerian men after concluding the government didn't have the evidence to hold them for nearly seven years. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/780984.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/780984.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:09 EST A U.S. military judge has blocked Pentagon prosecutors from using a Guantánamo Bay prisoner's statements to U.S. authorities as trial evidence, saying they were tainted by an earlier confession tortured out of the suspect by Afghan officials. 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/797110.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/797110.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:53 EST A man suspected of shooting a California Highway Patrol officer during a standoff with police is dead. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/797091.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/797091.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:08 EST An independent report on American higher education flunks all but one state when it comes to affordability - an embarrassing verdict that is unlikely to improve as the economy contracts. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/797075.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/797075.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:43 EST A judge has ruled that the mistress of a former Southern California sheriff will be tried separately for an alleged scheme to exploit his power of office for money. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/797061.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/797061.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:33 EST A federal magistrate judge ruled Tuesday that a Clinton-era ban against new road construction and development on millions of acres of national forest would apply only to 10 western states. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796983.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796983.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:18 EST A section of whitewater rapids tucked between high cliffs, little changed since explorer John Wesley Powell boated through in 1896, and a canyon decorated with thousands of ancient rock art panels have been pulled off the auction block by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796976.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796976.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:58 EST A counselor with the city's Department of Juvenile Justice was charged Tuesday with the rape and sexual abuse of three teenage girls who were in his custody at family court. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796822.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796822.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:53 EST Carlos Abascal http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/791407.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/791407.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The fight for Georgia's U.S. Senate seat is a struggle for much more. For Democrats, the Tuesday runoff could give them their 59th seat in the next Senate. And if Democrat Al Franken beats GOP incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota's recount, which will continue into December, Democrats would reach the magic number of 60 Senate seats -- the number required under Senate rules to shut off debate and force a vote. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/790535.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/790535.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:01 EST In a country where agreements are hard to reach, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki built a broad political coalition to muscle through a divisive U.S.-Iraq security pact that could set his place in his nation's history as the man who ended the American occupation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/790538.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/790538.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Tired of your same old job? Frustrated fan of The West Wing and want to try your hand at the real thing? Or maybe you've just cracked the Plum Book, a glittering bible of soon-to-be-vacated federal jobs, and seen an opening on the International Boundary and Water Commission for a tidy $158,000 a year and thought, ``Hey, I can do that.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/789474.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/789474.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Thousands of Americans have bought Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, after hearing that it shaped President-elect Barack Obama's thinking. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/789478.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/789478.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Iraq's Parliament postponed a pivotal vote on a U.S.-Iraq security agreement on Wednesday while key lawmakers sought compromises that would appease an alliance of Sunni parties. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/788782.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/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/nation/story/787830.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787830.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Don't wait until the financial crisis is over to attack global warming because cleaner ways to produce and use energy will lead to a stronger economy, leaders of environmental groups said Tuesday as they outlined their wish list for President-elect Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787858.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787858.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST America has never seen anything quite like this: the president and president-elect acting like co-presidents, consulting and cooperating on the day's biggest crises. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787863.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787863.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The Bush administration has adopted a much looser interpretation than the Iraqi government of several key provisions of the pending U.S.-Iraq security agreement, U.S. officials said Tuesday -- just hours before the Iraqi parliament was to hold its historic vote. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787825.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787825.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Facing a first-year deficit that could approach a staggering $2 trillion, President-elect Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to cut out wasteful spending wherever he finds it but insisted that the scope of the economic crisis demands an extraordinary -- and expensive -- response. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787759.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/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/nation/story/786329.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/786329.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:01 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/nation/AP/story/796751.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796751.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:13 EST Releasing inmates early might be the best remaining option for ensuring that California prisoners receive adequate medical care, a federal judge said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796720.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796720.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:53 EST Federal prosecutors added details Tuesday to the corruption indictment against Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who withdrew from consideration for Homeland Security secretary when questions arose around his taxes. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796701.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796701.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:48 EST State authorities are recommending that O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant be sentenced to 18 years in prison for the gunpoint robbery and kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers, according to documents filed Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796689.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796689.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:38 EST A member of the board that governs Arizona's most populous county is accused of failing to disclose his business assets and involvement in a variety of land deals and business associations. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796675.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:28 EST A federal jury awarded more than $1.7 million Tuesday to a former University of Michigan dental student who said she was illegally kicked out of school after she became ensnared in a feud between a dean and faculty members. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796647.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796647.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:48 EST Another suspect has pleaded not guilty in the killing of a Long Island attorney who authorities say was targeted by his business partner. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796639.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796639.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:33 EST A township commissioner and former police officer who once ran for Congress was arrested after a standoff Monday and accused of kidnapping and raping a woman in Baltimore last month. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796629.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796629.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:23 EST A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday accuses evangelist Tony Alamo of sexually abusing five girls on separate occasions beginning in 1994, including a period when he was serving a tax-evasion sentence at a halfway house in Texarkana. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796618.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796618.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:13 EST Testimony began Tuesday in the case against three men charged in a series of bank robberies - including a botched attempt that led to the death of an FBI agent last year. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796617.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796617.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:13 EST A homemade bomb was found Tuesday at a gas station a block away from a school, and authorities arresting a suspect found a second bomb on the man's body, police said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796608.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796608.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:53 EST New York City police say a 20-year-old man has confessed to fatally stabbing a bus driver in front of horrified passengers. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796599.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/796599.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:38 EST More than 50 mentally disabled patients in the large state-run homes of Texas died in the past year from preventable conditions often related to poor care, a federal investigation revealed Tuesday. 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.