Pentagon releases first detainee list from Guantanamo Bay
The Pentagon handed over the first list of every person held at Guantanamo Bay since its 2002 opening. About 759 detainees are named, with 218 Afghans and 131 Saudis among the total. the document excludes the most notorious suspects. Officials say names were previously classified due to security concerns.
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Seven U S troops killed in Iraq weekend insurgent raid
Insurgents shot down a U S helicopter south of Baghdad wounding two soldiers as they killed seven American troops over the weekend. U S forces say they also killed more than 40 militants in five raids south of Baghdad in the Triangle of Death amid escalating violence and stalled unity government talks.
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Flooded New England Braces for More Rain
Emergency crews used boats to rescue people trapped in homes as New England faced a fourth day of heavy rain. Sewage systems overflowed and rainfall could reach 15 inches by Monday afternoon, risking the region’s worst flooding since 1936 per the National Weather Service.
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Enron founders accused of massive fraud in closing arguments
Federal prosecutor Kathryn Ruemmiler told jurors that Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling ran a vast fraud at Enron before its collapse. She said they used accounting tricks, fiction, hocus-pocus, misleadings, omissions and outright lies to cover their crimes.
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U S to renew ties with Libya and drop terror list
The United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Libya and remove it from the terrorism sponsors list after Libya renounced weapons of mass destruction and cooperated in the hunt for terrorists. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the moves tangible results of Libya's leadership decisions to renounce terrorism and WMD.
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United States
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Muammar Gaddafi
Condoleezza Rice
TxDOT proposes 80 mph limits on I-10 and I-20 West Texas
San Antonio AP reports a Texas Department of Transportation plan to raise speed limits to eighty miles per hour on Interstate 10 and Interstate 20 in West Texas. The proposal would apply to both interstates in the region, pending approval.
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West Texas
Texas Department of Transportation
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