Aging inmates prompt creation of assisted living center at Washington prison

Aging inmates straining prison systems

CONNELL, Wash. — Curtis Ballard rides a motorized wheelchair around his prison ward, which happens to be the new assisted living unit — a place of many windows and no visible steel bars — at Washington’s Coyote Ridge Corrections Center.

Man who claims French-language TV reporter credentials is accused of preying on women in NYC

Man who claims TV credentials is NY rape suspect

Appeals court reverses drug conviction because police used GPS tracking device without warrant

Court reverses drug conviction in GPS case

Obama spends an overcast Sunday playing basketball and taking in a WNBA game

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White House pleads for end to disclosure of war secrets; accused soldier moved to brig

White House urges halt to spilling of war secrets

Arizona immigration flap poses opportunities, pitfalls, for Democrats and Republicans

Democrats catch break with Blagojevich trial’s early end, no big-name witnesses

Lee Boyd Malvo claims others were to help in DC area attacks, says there were other shootings

DC sniper claims conspirators in Shatner interview

GOP Senate front-runner in New Hampshire in tougher-than-expected primary battle

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White House, CIA lawyers in dark before terrorist videos destroyed; evidence of obstruction?

Key omission in memo to destroy CIA terror tapes

Race again proves a distraction for Obama, shifting his focus from crowded to-do list

Essay: Race again proves a distraction for Obama, shifting his focus from crowded to-do list

Back home, nuclear scientist who says US abducted him becomes propaganda hero for Iran

Abductee or defector, nuke scientist back in Iran

Back in Iran, ‘abducted’ nuclear scientist becomes new propaganda hero for country’s leaders

‘Abducted’ nuclear scientist returns to Iran

Iranian scientist with conflicting tales of his fate surfaces in Washington, wants to go home

Defector do-over? Iran scientist wants to go home

Missing Iranian scientist surfaces in Washington, Tehran says he wants to go home

Missing Iranian scientist surfaces in Washington

In spy swap, Russian agents were pawns in a practiced game of Moscow-Washington machinations

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Spy swap defuses thorny diplomatic problem as US seeks better relations with Russia

Speedy end to riveting spy swap: Quiet switch in Vienna, then jets heading back East and West

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Into the cold: Swapped spies face uncertain lives, reality of modern-day Russia

WH official: US considered idea of spy swap as early as June 11 _ well ahead of arrests

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Former top Russian spy Sergei Tretyakov dies 10 years after defecting to US

Former top Russian spy Sergei Tretyakov dies at 53

10 Russian agents who pleaded guilty in NY spy case are deported, part of Cold War-style swap

10 suburban spies plead guilty, getting deported in Cold War-style swap with 4 Russian inmates

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Spy swap with Russia unfolds as 10 plead guilty in federal court in NY to conspiracy

Thumbnail sketches of 11 defendants accused of spying for Russia

Thumbnails of 11 defendants in Russian spy case

Court: UK must not extradite 4 terror suspects to US; incarceration might violate rights

Court: UK must not extradite terror suspects to US

4 killed after USAID compound attacked by 6 suicide bombers in northern Afghanistan

USAID compound attacked in Afghanistan; 4 killed