NEW YORK – Of the courtiers to Camelot’s king, Theodore C. Sorensen, who died Sunday, ranked just below Bobby Kennedy. He was the adoring, tireless speechwriter and confidant to President John F. Kennedy, whose term was marked by Cold War struggles, growing civil rights strife and the beginnings of the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Soaring [...]
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – A U.S. war crimes tribunal on Sunday sentenced a young Canadian to 40 years in prison, but he may serve only a few more years under a deal that included his admission he was an al Qaeda conspirator who murdered a U.S. soldier. Toronto native Omar Khadr’s [...]
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Former guerrilla leader Dilma Rousseff won Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday after she promised to stick to policies that have lifted millions from poverty and made Brazil one of the world’s hottest economies. Rousseff had 55.2 percent of valid votes compared to 44.8 percent for opposition candidate Jose Serra, with 91 [...]
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – A U.S. war crimes tribunal Sunday sentenced Canadian captive Omar Khadr to 40 years in prison for charges that included murdering an American soldier in battle, but his plea agreement capped his sentence at eight years. That means the Toronto native will only serve eight more years, [...]
WASHINGTON – The mail bomb plot stretching from Yemen to Chicago may have been aimed at blowing up planes in flight and was only narrowly averted, officials said Sunday, acknowledging that one device almost slipped through Britain and another seized in Dubai was unwittingly flown on two passenger jets. Senior U.S. officials met to develop [...]