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Louisiana asks court to reopen child rape case
Louisiana prosecutors asked the Supreme Court on Monday to revisit its recent decision outlawing the death penalty for people convicted of raping children.  Mukasey: Congress should set rules for detaineesCongress, not judges, should decide how to give Guantanamo Bay detainees their day in court, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Monday in calling for new laws governing how foreign terror suspects seek their release.  Bin Laden driver is 1st test of Gitmo trialsSalim Hamdan is a small player with a big role. A former driver for Osama bin Laden, he is about to become the first Guantanamo prisoner to be tried for war crimes in a major test of the U.S. system for prosecuting alleged terrorists.
Government says it can hold captured teen fighters
The Bush administration is telling a federal appeals court that it has the authority to detain a Canadian who was captured in Afghanistan when he was 15 and is accused of killing a U.S. soldier.
Court: Enemy combatant can challenge designation
The Bush administration has the authority to capture and detain suspected enemy combatants in this country but must give them an adequate opportunity to challenge their military detention, a closely divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Text of President Bush's news conference
Here is a text of President Bush's news conference Tuesday, as provided by the White House:
More evidence of Gitmo sleep deprivation
The U.S. military subjected a former driver for Osama bin Laden to a sleep-deprivation program in 2003, his defense lawyers said Monday, raising the latest allegations of a tactic criticized as inhumane.
2 Algerians missing since Gitmo transfer
Two Algerians released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay have not been heard from since they were transferred two weeks ago to the custody of the North African country, a human rights group said Monday.
9/11 'mastermind' complains to judge
The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks said Thursday that the U.S. military is making it difficult for him to serve as his own lawyer.  On national security, Bush still has juiceFor an unpopular guy on his way out of his office, President Bush still has some juice.
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