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Obama Planning to Keep Tribunals for Detainees

nytimes.com
May. 14, 2009
President Obama has decided to keep the military commission system that his predecessor created to try suspected terrorists, but will ask Congress to expand the rights of defendants.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler