CORPORATIONS

Corporate bosses often take private jets

The chiefs of Detroit automobile companies are hardly alone in traveling by company plane. Some CEOs say it...

Conservatives call on Bush to free Muslim Uighurs

At issue is whether a federal judge has the authority to order the transfer to U.S. soil of some prisoners ...

Judge orders release of 5 in landmark Gitmo case

A federal judge ordered the speedy release Thursday of five Algerian men held for nearly seven years in Gua...

IMMIGRATION

Deported illegal immigrants who return to U.S. face prison time

U.S. immigration officials said illegal immigrants who have been deported previously will face up to five y...

CONFLICT IN IRAQ

Iraqis skeptical that security agreement will end U.S. presence

A security deal on U.S. forces' exit from Iraq is in the works, but Iraqis don't believe it will fully end ...

War court convenes with Osama bin Laden's cook

A Sudanese captive accused of being Osama bin Laden's cook and bodyguard sat side-by-side with a human righ...

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' lawyer to cost taxpayers `far more'

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will fight a lawsuit over his hiring practices with a private atto...

ALASKA

Sen. Ted Stevens loses election

(AP) -- Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his reelection bi...

SENATE

Joe Lieberman stays in key Senate post

Senate Democratic leaders allowed Joe Lieberman to remain chairman of the Homeland Security and Government ...

With Guantánamo war court in doubt, 9/11 case gets new judge

The military has assigned an Army colonel to take over the upcoming war crimes trial of alleged Sept. 11 ma...

THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

South Florida auto dealers push aid for carmakers

New York elementary school is renamed for Obama

At the behest of its students, an elementary school near New York City has been renamed after President-ele...

Year later, baby ordered back to adoptive parents

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday ordered a year-old boy back into the home of an adoptive couple who ha...

Hawaii dam break leads to 7 manslaughter counts

A Kauai grand jury on Friday indicted an 82-year-old landowner on seven counts of manslaughter in connectio...

Utah homes evacuated after propane tanker crash

Hundreds of homes are being evacuated near Salt Lake City after a propane tanker rolled over on a highway r...

1 dies of injuries from Texas refinery blast, fire

A man has died a day after an oil refinery explosion and fire in Texas.

Would-be Japanese space tourist wants $21M back

Japanese millionaire Daisuke Enomoto had planned to dress up as his favorite cartoon character in outer spa...

Last plea entered in fatal 2002 Nev. biker melee

The last plea has been entered in a brawl between rival biker gangs that left three people dead and dozens ...

Venerable Texas cowboy boot maker hit by $3M theft

A truck-driving thief made off with more than $3 million worth of merchandise from a venerable maker of cow...

AP Interview: Libya wants to invest in US

Mich. law restricting ballast dumping is upheld

A federal appeals court has upheld a Michigan law designed to prevent oceangoing freight ships from bringin...

Ex-Atlantic City official admits blackmail scheme

A former president of the Atlantic City Council has pleaded guilty to helping set up a political rival in a...

Indonesia wants access to terror suspect Hambali

Indonesia is asking for access to a jailed terror suspect at Guantánamo, known as Hambali, who was l...

Judge orders release of 5 Guantánamo detainees

In the first ruling of its kind, a federal judge ordered the speedy release Thursday of five Algerian men a...

Gitmo judge tosses out detainee's 2nd confession

A U.S. military judge has blocked Pentagon prosecutors from using a Guantánamo Bay prisoner's statements to...

Conservatives call on Bush to free Muslim Uighurs

At issue is whether a federal judge has the authority to order the transfer to U.S. soil of some prisoners ...

Australian police to lift curbs on Gitmo convict

Australian police said Thursday they will stop restricting the movements and communications of a former Gua...

War court convenes with Osama bin Laden's cook

A Sudanese captive accused of being Osama bin Laden's cook and bodyguard sat side-by-side with a human righ...

Prosecutor: No sign al Qaeda suspect was tortured

Lawyers inspect secret prison

Two Navy defense lawyers upended a prison camps taboo Tuesday and toured a top-secret detention facility th...

With Guantánamo war court in doubt, 9/11 case gets new judge

The military has assigned an Army colonel to take over the upcoming war crimes trial of alleged Sept. 11 ma...

U.S. confirms it held 12 juveniles at Guantánamo

The Pentagon reversed course and conceded that human rights groups had correctly counted a dozen juveniles ...

Closing Guantánamo faces hurdle: Yemen

President-elect Barack Obama's pledge to close the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, faces a major obst...