A former inmate at the Baltimore City Detention Center beat incredible odds to have part of his civil-rights case remanded back to U.S. District Court but did not fare any better the second time around.

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By all accounts, this has not been a good stretch of the year for the Obama administration. In fact, what columnist Ruth Marcus called an “unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events,” the Benghazi, Internal Revenue Service and Associated Press probe “scandals” will ultimately not make the first paragraph — not even the first page — of the account of the Obama Administration in the history books.

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HAVANA — Cuba accused the United States of lying about the health and conditions of confinement of a jailed American government subcontractor, and pushed back Wednesday against claims by the man’s family that his 15-year sentence is arbitrary and a ...

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WASHINGTON — A doctor says an American man imprisoned in Cuba may have a cancerous growth on his shoulder, contradicting the Cuban government which has said his health is normal. A lawyer for the imprisoned man, Maryland native Alan Gross, ...

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A former Nebraska prison inmate is finding himself on the right side of the law these days.

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FORT MEADE — The military judge presiding over the war crimes trial of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner charged in the attack on the USS Cole rejected a motion Tuesday by defense attorneys that he remove himself from the case. Lawyers ...

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HAVANA — Cuba lashed back Friday at what it called a campaign of distortions over the health of an imprisoned American contractor, and hinted at retaliation that could include moving the 63-year-old man out of the military hospital where he ...

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SAN DIEGO — The Drug Enforcement Administration issued an apology Wednesday to a California student who was picked up during a drug raid and left in a holding cell for several days without food, water or access to a toilet. ...

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So Gov. [Martin] O’Malley commutes his first two life sentences (“O’Malley commutes first two life sentences,” March 30). And according to Parole Chairman [David] Blumberg, this action is grounded on “redemption,” which is defined as… “release from a detrimental influence ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — The family of a Delaware woman killed by the man who had his death sentence commuted this week by Gov. Jack Markell says the focus should be on the 26-year-old woman they lost. The News Journal reports ...

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