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The lawyer for the widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan said Tuesday they have filed an application so that any money paid by the Canadian government to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner convicted of killing him will go toward the widow and another U.S. soldier injured. Lawyer Don Winder made the comments as a decision by the Canadian government to apologize and give millions of dollars to Omar Khadr came under mounting criticism.

Canada to apologize, pay former Gitmo prisoner Omar Khadr

The Canadian government is going to apologize and give millions to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15, with Canada's Supreme Court later ruling that officials had interrogated him under "oppressive circumstances." An official familiar with the deal said Tuesday that Omar Khadr will receive 10.5 million Canadian dollars .

U.S. nuclear inspection results now concealed

Amockup of a Minuteman 3 nuclear missile used for training by missile maintenance crews at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. The Pentagon has thrown a cloak of official secrecy over assessments of how safely and securely its nuclear weapons are operated, maintained and guarded, closing a window onto an already obscure part of the military with a history of periodic inspection failures and lapses in morale.

Different but Equivalent: Fourth Circuit Clarifies Parameters of…

On May 16, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which governs cases pending in North Carolina, issued an opinion that reveals the parameters within which an employer may fill an employee's position and thereafter return that employee to work after a leave of absence covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act . In the case of Waag v.

Beijing Hits Out at U.S. Navy Exercises in South China Sea in a Sign of Turbulent Relations Ahead

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem east of the Korean peninsula during Operation Foal Eagle March 22, 2017. the U.S. government that sending an American naval vessel into territorial waters it claims around the Paracel Islands in the disputed South China Sea was a "serious political and military provocation," in the latest of a slew of incidents that augur souring relations between the world's two largest economies.

Guantanamo prisoners – unintentionally’ overheard talking to their lawyers

A Navy prosecutor said unauthorized, unidentified people "unintentionally" overheard detainees consulting with their attorneys at a special, irregular meeting site in the latest controversy over attorney-client privacy at the prison. "Any characterization regarding an intrusion in the attorney-client relationship is misleading," said Cmdr.

Confederate street names stir debate in . . . New York City?

Two of the Confederate Army's best-known leaders have streets named for them in a place not normally associated with the Southern side of the Civil War - New York City. Now some elected officials are trying to undo it.