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Charges refiled against accused 9/11 mastermind
By News on May 31, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Military prosecutors have refiled terrorism and murder charges against the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and four other men under a revamped trial process at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon said Tuesday....
House rejects debt limit increase without cuts
By News on May 31, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans dealt defeat to their own proposal for a $2.4 trillion increase in the nation's debt limit Tuesday, a political gambit designed to reinforce a demand for spending cuts to accompany any increase in government borrowing....Edwards, feds arguing if money was donated or gift
By News on May 31, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former presidential candidate John Edwards and federal prosecutors are arguing over whether funds used to cover up his extramarital affair were campaign contributions or just gifts from his longtime friends....
Plane returns after fistfight between passengers
By News on May 31, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government and airline officials say a United Airlines plane with 144 people aboard returned to Washington-Dulles International Airport for an emergency landing escorted by two F-16 fighter jets after a fight broke out between passengers....
Mladic extradited to UN court in The Hague
By News on May 31, 2011
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was placed in a U.N. detention unit Tuesday to await trial on genocide charges, 16 years after he was indicted in the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II....