http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Nation 60 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:00:36 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649314.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649314.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:47 EDT A commercial airline pilot and convert to Islam who says his name is on the U.S. government's secret terrorist watch list has fought back, filing a federal lawsuit against the Homeland Security Department and various other federal agencies. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649369.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649369.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:12 EDT Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said he won't recommend a replacement for slain state Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney before delegates gather in Denver next week for the Democratic National Convention. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649701.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649701.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:24 EDT The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a small plane carrying an Alaska state official and his son. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/648700.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/648700.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:22 EDT Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice - handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it - was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649765.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649765.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:24 EDT A man who authorities said kept an arsenal of weaponry and military gear pleaded not guilty Wednesday to threatening to assassinate both President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/648765.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/648765.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:17 EDT Crews were waiting for floodwaters to recede so they can begin restoring washed-out trails and footbridges to a remote village near the Grand Canyon hit by flooding, authorities said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649100.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649100.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:19 EDT Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year - and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649338.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649338.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:17 EDT The National Park Service has dropped its plan to expand the visitor center at Little Bighorn Battlefield, saying the $1.1 million project would have blemished historic Last Stand Hill. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649378.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649378.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:42 EDT A man who killed 11 people by causing a commuter rail disaster in Glendale faces sentencing, one month after a jury recommended he serve life in prison without the possibility of parole. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649542.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/649542.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:19 EDT A jury has ruled that a ranch company's negligence helped lead to the huge 2005 landslide that crushed part of a seaside community and killed 10 people. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/649044.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/649044.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:29 EDT Puerto Rico Gov. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, a senior aide, and Acevedo's former campaign finance director were indicted Tuesday by a San Juan federal grand jury, which accused the three of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/649050.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/649050.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT Compared to the polar bear, the American pika is downright tiny. Weighing only 4 ounces to 6 ounces, this small, rabbit-like mammal with thick brown hair that lives on boulder-covered slopes near alpine meadows in Western mountain ranges, could represent the latest effort to use the Endangered Species Act to combat global warming. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/649047.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/649047.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT The public image of Barack Obama has eroded this summer amid a daily onslaught of attacks from presidential rival John McCain, leaving the race for the White House statistically tied, according to a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll released Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/647451.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/647451.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT If it weren't for Hispanic births, the United States could be confronting long-term population declines similar to those in Germany, Japan and other industrialized countries. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/647465.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/647465.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT Two senior senators urged Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Monday to delay a change to FBI rules that critics say would weaken checks on the bureau's investigative powers. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/647469.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/647469.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama got a crash course in hurricane politics Monday as they reached the nation's largest battleground state at the same time as Tropical Storm Fay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/646210.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/646210.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT Tom Christian is the kind of religious voter that John McCain and Barack Obama were courting when they went to church this weekend. Conservative. Republican. But open to either of them. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/646217.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/646217.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT A suicide bomber killed 15 people, including at least six U.S.-backed Sunni Arab fighters, Sunday night near a crowded outdoor market in eastern Baghdad, security officials and local leaders said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/644388.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/644388.html Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT An alleged al Qaeda filmmaker with a flair for the dramatic set the stage for the first no-contest war crimes trial Friday at Guantánamo Bay by declaring a boycott until he is sentenced. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/642822.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/642822.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT American officials on Thursday ended speculation that the U.S. military might rescue Georgia's beleaguered government, confirming Russia's virtual takeover of the former Soviet republic and heralding Moscow's reemergence as the dominant power in Eastern Europe. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/642834.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/642834.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT Years before she started whipping up French delicacies in her California kitchen, legendary chef Julia Child cooked up shark repellent in a secret military laboratory. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/642000.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/642000.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:08 EDT For a second time, a military judge Thursday barred a U.S. general at the Pentagon from acting as a legal advisor in the trial of an accused terrorist at the Guantánamo war court. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/641318.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/641318.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT One general testified against another at the war court Wednesday, describing a Pentagon official fast-tracking trials here as "abusive, bullying, unprofessional.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/641325.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/641325.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:01 EDT In a few decades, all Americans will be minorities. White non-Hispanics will drop below 50 percent of the population as early as 2042, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections to be released Thursday. That's about 10 years earlier than demographers previously had predicted, said Grayson Vincent, a demographer with the Census Bureau. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/640256.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/640256.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:22 EDT A production company owned by Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney has optioned the story of Osama bin Laden's driver.