Obama appoints lawyer to shut Gitmo

Following FOIA requests from the Miami Herald and the New York Times, the government has released a list of the 46 Guantanamo detainees deemed to dangerous for release, transfer or trial. Of the 166 already held in juridical limbo ? 80, after all, ...

MSNBC's Alex Wagner digs into why House Republicans are okay with paying $900k per year for every GITMO prisoner, but want to cut food stamp funding for the poor. One Congressman justifies it by citing the Bible. Share This: House passes most ...

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court judge says it's time for the president and Congress to consider a different approach to the handling of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Judge Harry T. Edwards made the comment Tuesday at the end of a ...

GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE (Cuba) The Obama administration late on Monday publicly identified for the first time 46 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay whom it wants to hold indefinitely without charge or trial because it says they are too dangerous to ...

The Obama administration has released the names of 46 prisoners at its detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba whom it wants to hold indefinitely. The men are considered too dangerous to release, but the United States lacks the evidence to ...

A hunger strike by detainees at the US's Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba continues as some 150 doctors and other medical professionals demand access to the hunger-striking inmates. Some 130 of the total 166 Guantanamo prisoners are currently on ...

More than 150 physicians and other healthcare professionals have published an open letter to President Obama asking him to allow independent physicians -- not military doctors -- to visit hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay. More than 100 detainees ...

Relatives of Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison shout slogans during a protest to demand the release of the detainees, outside the U.S. embassy in Sanaa June 17, 2013. (Reuters / Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi) Yemenis gathered in front of ...

An investigative journalist said that the United States violated medical ethics by the use of Reglan, which is known for its severe side effects, for Guantanamo hunger strike detainees. The fact that this is being used is just another example of ...