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Justice Breyer Raises Specter of Perpetual Detention Without Trial at Guantánamo

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a lawsuit by a Yemeni man who has been held in wartime detention for more than 17 years at the military’s Guantánamo Bay prison, prompting Justice Stephen G. Breyer to warn that the American legal system is on autopilot toward permitting life imprisonment without trial. […]

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A Judge Rules Against One Stem-Cell Clinic. There Are Hundreds of Them.

Technology /

Dr. Sonye K. Danoff, a pulmonologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, said she saw two patients several years ago with severe lung disease who had been lured to clinics in Florida. Their blood was drawn, then “hocus-pocus happened,” she said, and the blood was infused back into them. It had no apparent effect, and both patients,

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Turkey says national team treated badly at Iceland airport

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Turkey lodged a formal protest Monday over the allegedly rude treatment its national soccer team received at Iceland’s largest airport after arriving for a European Championship qualifying match. The Turkish team has complained that it was delayed at Keflavik Airport on Sunday while officials searched bags at a slow pace. Airport officials have defended the

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Supreme Court to Hear Racial Discrimination Case Against Comcast

Politics /

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, may be sued for race discrimination over its decision not to carry programming from an entertainment company owned by Byron Allen, an African-American entrepreneur. A federal appeals court in California ruled that the case could move forward under

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Medical pot laws no answer for US opioid deaths, study finds

Lifestyle /

A new study shoots down the notion that medical marijuana laws can prevent opioid overdose deaths, challenging a favorite talking point of legal pot advocates. Researchers repeated an analysis that sparked excitement years ago. The previous work linked medical marijuana laws to slower than expected increases in state prescription opioid death rates from 1999 to

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TalkTalk hacker Daniel Kelley sentenced to four years

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Image copyright Metropolitan Police Image caption Daniel Kelley will serve four years in a young offenders’ institution A man who was involved in a major hack attack of telecoms firm TalkTalk has been sentenced to four years’ detention. Daniel Kelley, 22, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, pleaded guilty in 2016 to 11 charges including involvement in the

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