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The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and move terror suspects from there to military prisons on U.S. soil. According to the Associated Press, President George W. Bush's top national security and legal advisers are expected to discuss the move at the White House on Friday and it appears a consensus is developing for the first time among Bush's inner circle. They will consider a new proposal to shut the highly controversial prison, built at a US military enclave on the southern tip of Cuba, and transfer nearly 400 detainees to one or...

Bush won't reauthorize eavesdropping program Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:10 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush has decided not to reauthorize the controversial domestic warrantless surveillance program for terrorism suspects and to put it under the authority of a secret special court, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Wednesday. "The president has determined not to reauthorize the Terrorist Surveillance Program

Revised Rules on Mortgages Are Scuttled By JENNIFER BAYOT The rules on closing home loans are evidently so knotty that a federal agency yesterday withdrew a proposal to overhaul them because of opposition from both the mortgage industry and consumer groups. The Department of Housing and Urban Development said its plan required additional vetting and would be made available for public scrutiny at some unspecified time. "Once we get those comments, we can better decide the best approach for the re-proposal of this rule," Alphonso Jackson, the department's acting secretary, said yesterday in a conference call. "The most prudent thing...