The Obama administration's announcement Sunday that 12 Guantánamo detainees would be sent to other countries followed news that some detainees would be transferred to an Illinois facility. The president set a Jan. 22, 2010 deadline for closing the Guantánamo Bay prison, but seems unlikely to meet it.
Home mortgage foreclosures and delinquencies were up in the third quarter despite greater efforts to help homeowners. Defaults on modified loans were also high.
Deep divisions over abortion are the party’s biggest obstacle to combining the Senate and House bills, which also differ on a public plan and how to pay to expand insurance coverage.
AP - A suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside a press club in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving three people dead in the latest attack against the city of Peshawar since the military launched a major offensive near the Afghan border.
AP - The White House has tapped a corporate cyber security expert and former Bush administration official to lead the effort to shore up the country's computer networks and better coordinate with companies that operate 80 percent of those critical systems.
A new order from the general in charge of northern Iraq makes getting pregnant or impregnating a fellow soldier an offense punishable by court-martial.
A man who escaped from a Florida work release center in 1979 while serving a term for armed robbery has been captured in Missouri, authorities said Monday.
Ann Nixon Cooper, whose name President Obama invoked in his election-night speech as a symbol of America's struggles and progress, has died. She was 107.
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