Lawyers for a Guantanamo prisoner on hunger strike are challenging a military doctor’s assertion that he is clinically stable even though his weight has dropped to around 75 pounds (34 kilograms)...
President Barack Obama released his long-awaited plan for closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying he doesn't want the next U.S. president -- no matter who it is -- to have to keep...
Retired senior military officers and human rights advocates are reacting with disgust at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s description of the Geneva Conventions as a “problem” for...
Daniel McGowan was returning to his cell in the Sandstone, Minn., federal prison when he learned he was shipping out. At first he didn’t know where, or why, which is standard procedure for the U.S...
It was the defining promise of the early days of the “hope and change” administration: President Obama would signal a new era of U.S. engagement with the world by closing, within a year, the...
Innocent men detained for months or years after the Sept. 11 attacks on suspicion of being Muslim got their day in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. The odds don’t look good. The court will...
Sparing four men from indefinite detention under his successor, now-former President Barack Obama nonetheless failed to fulfill the promise from the first day of his tenure to close Guantanamo Bay’s...
A commission with Gov. Rick Snyder appointees is asking the state Department of Civil Rights to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge against the state’s emergency manager law that Snyder...
...In 2002 the Vulcan Society, a fraternal organization of black firefighters, initiated a bias complaint challenging the fairness of the 1999 and 2002 Firefighter exams. This prompted the U.S...
...For applicants in Yemen, which is experiencing a major cholera outbreak amid a violent conflict , the “hardship” is clear, said Ibraham Qatabi, a Yemeni American activist with the Center for...
