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Running the prison camp costs the Pentagon more than $150 million a year -- just over $900,000 for each of the 166 detainees at the facility, located on a Navy base on the eastern end of Cuba. By comparison, costs for a typical federal prison inmate run about $25,000 a year; at the "supermax" prison in Colorado that holds domestic terrorists Eric Rudolph and Ted Kaczynski, it's about $60,000.

A federal judge on Friday ordered a preliminary injunction blocking an Arkansas law that would ban abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, a court official told CNN on Friday.

New York Jets running back Mike Goodson was arrested on drug and gun charges in New Jersey early Friday morning, New Jersey State Police said.

As a juvenile corrections officer in Southern California, Teresa Goines found it rewarding to work with troubled youth and help them turn their lives around.

A federal court has sentenced two Minnesota women to lengthy prison sentences for soliciting donations in the name of charity, then funneling the funds to Somali militants.

The parents of two children allegedly slain by their nanny in New York City last year are expecting a child this fall, roughly a year after the nightmare deaths, according to a Facebook post.

They were, and are, your guide to the airwaves: the vinyl spinners, the blasts from the past, the paramount players of the platters that matter. Here are 10 of the all-time great disc jockeys:

Even if they don't admit it, most people know when they're hammered.

Howard Kurtz says with scandals over IRS, Benghazi and, especially, the administration's scrutiny of AP phone records, the press has turned on the president.

North Texas forged ahead in a massive cleanup of a destroyed neighborhood, still searching for seven missing after 16 tornadoes struck this community.

The Powerball jackpot for Saturday's drawing will be at least $600 million, the third largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, after no one matched the winning numbers in latest draw.

Some fans of "Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker" are stunned by murder accusations against the 24-year-old in the death of a New Jersey lawyer.

How does a giant anteater get pregnant and give birth without her mate?

Police in Omaha, Nebraska, are looking into whether two double killings could be linked.

The volcano's rumblings have already emitted a "continuous ash, steam and gas cloud" that extends up to 60 miles away.

Researchers at the University of Texas are warning that the invasive species from South America has the potential to change the ecological balance in the southeastern United States, largely because the ants can wipe out colonies of what's been widely considered the insect villain of the region, the fire ant.

Nin Hulett, mayor pro tem for Granbury, Texas, talks about the damage in his community after a deadly tornado hit.

At 42, Richard Swanson was without work, without kids at home, without a mortgage, but with a lot of time to ponder what matters.

In this capital city and college town, there is a shrine to a disc jockey.

Chlorine is supposed to take care of most of the microbes floating around in pools, but human waste, it seems, is stubbornly resistant to being sanitized.