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.

Looking toward retirement, BCC President John Sbrega reflects on life and the college

As a teenager in Holyoke in the 1950s, John J. “Jack” Sbrega dreamed of one day coaching baseball and teaching at a local prep school near his hometown.  He saw himself on the baseball diamond “with leather patches on my jacket. Maybe I'd take up pipe smoking,” he said with a laugh.  He aimed to follow the footsteps of his dad - a high school teacher and professor at Westfield State College, now Westfield State University.  “Education was something I grew up with in the house,” he said.

Panels demand billions more for defense than Trump requested

Two House Democrats want to compel the Air Force to detail how much has been spent on trips that President Donald Tr... Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he's asked the new leader of New York City's troubled public transit system to do a series of urgent reviews of the agency's management and aging infrastructure. The endangered killer whales that frequent the inland waters of Washington state are having pregnancy problems because they can't find enough to eat.

Congress must stop soft ‘earmarking’ in Pentagon spending bill

Sometime on Sunday the House Appropriations Committee released its "Chairman's Mark" of the Fiscal Year 2018 spending bill for the Pentagon. And late Monday night the Defense subcommittee met in closed session to produce the opening salvo in the Pentagon spending battle.

President Trump Should Listen to Candidate Trump, Avoid Another Middle East Quagmire

MEDITERRANEAN SEA The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea. Porter, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe.

County Open Space Program Helps Aviation Museum With Major Door Restoration Project

The restoration efforts at the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum are constant and costly. Thanks to the Cape May County Open Space Historic Preservation Program, museum staff will be able to undertake a large project that has been on the list of recommended repairs since the museum's inception in 1997; restoring the bottom sections of the telescopic hangar doors on the east and west sides.