WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House national security adviser says he's confident the administration will meet President Barack Obama's deadline for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by January. ...more

August 9, 2009

President Barack Obama says treasury secretary is one job that's not up for grabs. ...more

March 21, 2009

The new powers that be in Washington, D.C., can, after all, make a decision that has nothing to do with Guantanamo Bay, the war on terror or the nose-diving world economy. Not even your April tax return. ...more

February 25, 2009

Keep Workers On Job Like others, I am completely appalled about the layoffs of so many hardworking Americans recently. I am talking about principles, not racisms. Companies such as Bank of America, Citibank, Dell and Hewlett-Packard have been consistently outsourcing thousands of jobs overseas. Imagine all the possibilities for us Americans if these companies and others would keep the jobs in the U.S. ...more

January 31, 2009

A new photograph released Friday shows Fidel Castro looking less gaunt than in an image two months ago, but the ailing Cuban leader said he doubts he'll make it to the end of Barack Obama's four-year term. ...more

January 24, 2009

Fidel Castro says he doubts he'll be able to follow current events four years from now. ...more

January 22, 2009

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama began overhauling U.S. treatment of terror suspects Thursday, signing orders to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, review military war crimes trials and ban the harshest interrogation methods. ...more

January 22, 2009

The following is a letter I sent to Congress in regard to Guantanamo Bay and the use of torture. Please support S. 147 and close Guantanamo Bay detention facility and restrict interrogation to the techniques in the Army Field Manual, as well as the other proposed changes, because it goes against what America stands for. ...more

January 14, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office - and perhaps his first day - to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers. ...more

January 12, 2009

I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. ...more

December 6, 2008