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Suit challenges new Guantánamo mail rule 7:27 PM EST

A lawyer for a Guantánamo prisoner charged in the Sept. 11 attack has filed suit against the prison commander, arguing a new rule subjecting legal mail to a security review is unconstitutional and amounts to illegal “intelligence monitoring” of a U.S. citizen.

Bigger, faster cutter steams into Miami 6:10 PM EST

The Bernard C. Webber is the Coast Guard’s new Fast Response Cutter, which is going to replace the aging, ’70s-era fleet of 110-foot cutters that are familiar to South Floridians.

GOP report questions Guantánamo releases 2:18 PM EST

Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an acceptable threat from the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, only to find that 27 percent re-engaged in terrorist or insurgent activities, according to a report by Republicans on the investigations panel of the House Armed Services Committee.

Funeral services for Antonio Jorge, expert on Cuban economy, FIU professor 5:00 AM EST

Funeral services will be Thursday for Antonio Jorge, a respected and prolific Miami-based economist who was also a professor at Florida International University and St. Thomas University and served in several top administrative posts at the schools.

Guantánamo -- the place with the prison camps -- is going green 7:43 PM EST

Better known for its experiment in offshore detention, interrogation and military justice, Guantánamo is also a lab for environmental exploration.

State Department: Guantánamo lawyers can’t question Yemeni leader 1:55 PM EST

Pentagon lawyers for a Guantánamo captive want to get sworn testimony from the Yemeni leader, now in New York for medical treatment, but the State Department responds that he has diplomatic immunity.

Prime minister: Haiti donor aid needs revision 7:35 PM EST

Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille made the rounds in Washington, asking for better coordination and faster disbursement of aid.

Cuban migrants at Guantánamo base ‘broke rules,’ face restrictions 7:27 PM EST

Nearly three dozen Cuban asylum seekers were confined to the Leeward side of the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Tuesday, no longer able to send packages to family across the minefield in a security crackdown at the U.S. migrant center at the base in southeast Cuba.

Italy frees former Guantánamo detainee 3:30 PM EST

An Italian appeals court has overturned the terrorism conviction of a Tunisian man who had spent nearly eight years in the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo, Cuba.

Vatican may put Cuba’s Felix Varela on the road to sainthood 11:27 AM EST

Pope Benedict XVI may announce Felix Varela has been made a ‘venerable’ when he visits Cuba