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U.S. Offers Red Cross Access to Terror Suspects

WASHINGTON – The Red Cross is free to visit detainees at Guanatano Bay but the United States will not permit visits by U.N. human rights experts “just to avoid a row,” the State Department said Friday. “Our purpose is to run a facility in a proper way and act according …

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Topics and Guests for November 7

Watch “The Big Story” weekdays at 5 p.m. ET The chaotic riots that have gripped the suburban slums north of Paris for more than a week spread to more suburbs and other towns across Europe, after it started as an outburst of anger among disaffected youths, mostly of Muslim or …

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Catholic Bishops Meet in D.C.

WASHINGTON – The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are convening a meeting that has an unusually light agenda — in public, that is. Sessions are to be open to the news media and observers from Monday through midday Tuesday. But after that, the bishops will continue to discuss church business behind …

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