GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- In a stunning rebuke, a six-member U.S. military jury Thursday ignored a Pentagon prosecutor's plea for a 30 years-plus term and ordered Osama bin Laden's driver to 66 months in prison.
GUANTANAMO BAY
In a historic split verdict that sets the stage for dozens more war crimes trials, a U.S. military jury on Wednesday convicted Osama bin Laden's driver of aiding terror but acquitted him of conspiring with al Qaeda.
CAMPAIGN 2008
A Barack Obama ad ready to air at Florida gas stations that have pumps topped with TV screens was nixed at the last minute because the advertising company's chief said it reflected poorly on the oil industry, according to the presidential candidate's campaign.
PENTAGON
The Pentagon on Wednesday requested new bids on a $35 billion contract for aerial-refueling tankers, and Boeing supporters on Capitol Hill said the highly technical document apparently favored a European airplane.
INDEPENDENTS
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader is quietly making headway in his third bid for president. He clinched a major victory last Saturday by getting on the California ballot as the nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party. In 2004, Nader wasn't on California's ballot -- a state receptive to his antiwar, anticorporate message -- and was on the ballot in only 34 states.
THE ARCTIC
A new cold war is breaking out in the race for Arctic oil, natural gas and minerals, and it involves front-line icebreakers. Russia has seven and the United States has three, if you count one that's laid up in Seattle and won't be seaworthy for a year.
When Regina Molokomme's father, stepmother and brother died of AIDS, those setbacks propelled the South African educator out of her comfortable situation and into a life dedicated to helping others cope with the disease.
GERMANY | NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
Germany's allies are dismayed that the German government has granted a German firm permission to supply three natural gas plants to Iran at the same time they're trying to pressure Iran into suspending its nuclear program, U.S. and European officials said Tuesday.
A military jury deliberated a second day without a verdict Tuesday in the case of Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, accused of 10 counts of conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism.
GASOLINE
After six months of relentlessly rising gasoline prices that have cut a devastating swath across the U.S. economy, the government is reporting some pullback in prices, and some analysts are predicting a significant drop.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz made his national debut as the new president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors Monday, telling a crowd that the federal government has ''abandoned'' the nation's cities.
TEXAS
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday unanimously recommended against a reprieve for José Ernesto Medellín, a Mexican national who's facing execution in Texas on Tuesday for raping and murdering two teenage girls 15 years ago in Houston.
ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen Johnson stunned his staff last month when he publicly opposed their proposals for regulating greenhouse gas emissions, according to a letter provided to McClatchy on Monday.
GUANTANAMO BAY
The war crimes case of Osama bin Laden's driver Monday went to a Pentagon jury of six U.S. military officers asked to choose between two starkly different portrayals of Salim Hamdan: ''al Qaeda warrior'' or ``the general's driver.''
SENATE
Lawyers for Sen. Ted Stevens called Monday for his trial to be moved to his home state, saying that the ''center of gravity'' for the charges faced by the 84-year-old Republican rests ``squarely in Alaska.''
