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Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect The lawyer for the family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell said Tuesday that even as local police close the active part of their investigation into her ... (more)

A federal court in San Francisco has struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless there's a medical emergency.

The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say.

Over 100 Guantanamo prisoners continue their hunger strike in protest against unlawful - and as it turns out, violent - detention.

I'm in Northern Ireland and yesterday on May 20, 2013, I spoke with several members of the Northern Ireland Parliament.

It is a tragic state of affairs when more than 100 men starve themselves, some close to death, in protest of human rights abrogations - and Twitter is needed to gain them attention.

For the first time in years, the Obama administration appears to be focused on shuttering the Guantanamo Bay prison and - at a minimum - has redoubled its efforts to reduce the number of people held there.

Perhaps a meal was not the ideal setting to talk about something as unappetizing as a hunger strike.

This is to all the people complaining about Garrey Carruthers, president at NMSU, including myself.

A federal judge has given three-year prison sentences to two San Diego defense contractors convicted of fraud in a scheme to bribe Navy officials with more than $1 million in cash and gifts.

The United States appears to have carried out its second drone strike inside Yemen in the past three days.

Around 130 of 166 Guantanamo detainees refuse food. They're hunger striking for justice.

On Thursday, President Obama will reportedly make a big speech to address White House counterterrorism policy, including the closing of Guantanamo Bay and the Administration's use of drone strikes.

Every time the word " bipartisan " makes it to print the world suffers. When the two rival political syndicates line up in a row in favor of something, it's because their masters feel so strongly about the issue that all other concerns are bulldozed away.

In May 2012, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner were poised to make a rare double visit to China for a high-level strategic and economic dialogue.

As the Department of Justice came under scrutiny once again, the usual cry for Eric Holder 's ouster is echoed even louder.

You can argue that Republicans have blocked President Obama from doing just about anything.

It's hard not to laugh at the indignation over the Justice Department's seizure of telephone records of the Associated Press and its journalists.

President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration's secret drone program and other counterterrorm practices during a speech Thursday, a White House official said.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Rear Adm. Kevin Cook, the new 8th District commander, visited and addressed Coast Guard members stationed at Sector Corpus Christi May 9, located at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.