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U.S. intransigence on Cuban Five prisoners a high stakes game

May 22, 2012 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

With appeals all but exhausted, the only hope for relief of unremitting judicial abuse of the Cuban Five lies with President Barack Obama.

Drink coffee, live longer?

May 22, 2012 By Thomas Riggins

Some positive science to report: drinking coffee keeps the Grim Reaper away-at lease for a while longer.

Thousands wrongly convicted

May 22, 2012 By Dan Margolis

In the last 23 years alone, more than 2,000 people were falsely convicted, but probably far more people are in prison for crimes they did not commit.

Striking Red Cross workers’ life blood on the line

May 22, 2012 By Rick Nagin

"Working at a site without air on a 90-degree day and trying to keep my staff and donors from passing out was part of my daily challenge."

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans return medals at NATO protest

May 22, 2012 By Teresa Albano

U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars threw their medals towards the site of the NATO Summit May 20 in what was called the most dramatic antiwar action by ex-GIs since Vietnam.