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Though never charged with a crime, Muhammad Saad Iqbal spent six years in American custody, during which he says he was secretly taken to Egypt and tortured.
Roland W. Burris nonetheless planned to arrive Tuesday to be sworn in as the new junior senator from Illinois.
Astronomers said Monday that the Milky Way is more massive than previously thought, expanding Earth's galaxy to roughly the heft of Andromeda.
Executives from Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Hollywood, as well as former Clinton supporters, have written checks of up to $50,000.
Bill Richardson’s withdrawal as Barack Obama’s choice for commerce secretary means New Mexicans have their governor back, like it or not.
Many of the president-elect’s other picks have had a centrist bent, but he signaled a new direction at the Justice Department.
The new Congress plans to move aggressively against the tobacco industry by regulating cigarettes, raising sales taxes and ratifying an international antitobacco treaty.
The trip this week effectively represents the incoming administration’s first foray into foreign policy since the election.
National health spending grew in 2007 at the lowest rate in nine years, mainly because prescription drug spending increased at the slowest pace since 1963.
Bernard L. Madoff tried to hide at least $1 million in assets from investigators, prosecutors told a judge.
The state canvassing board certified that Al Franken won by 225 votes, but Norm Coleman’s lawyers said they would go to court.
The choice of Leon E. Panetta, a former White House chief of staff, to head the intelligence agency raised questions about his relevant experience.
President-elect Barack Obama is working to build a bipartisan coalition to endorse his plan of tax cuts and new spending.
For 1,533 days, parishioners in Massachusetts have been guarding a church so that the archdiocese cannot sell it.
The dean of Georgia lawyers, Mr. Bell also served as a federal judge and prominent legal troubleshooter.
Five men died early Monday when fire and smoke swept through a homeless shelter housed in a former bakery in Paris, Tex.
The action will protect vast tracts of American-controlled islands, reefs, surface waters and sea floor from fishing, mining, oil exploration and other commercial activity.