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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is scrambling to release as many prisoners as possible from the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba and considering novel legal strategies to do it. The options being considered include allowing some men to strike plea deals by video-teleconference and sending others to foreign countries to be prosecuted. The…

(AP) - Muhammad Ali will be on the June 13 cover of Sports Illustrated for the 40th time in a photo shot by Neil Leifer while Ali trained in Miami Beach in 1970. "Muhammad Ali was a singular force of athletics, humanitarianism and social equality unlike anyone in our history," says group editor Paul Fichtenbaum.  …

He was fast of fist and foot (AP) -- lip, too - a heavyweight champion who promised to shock the world and did. He floated. He stung. Mostly he thrilled, even after the punches had taken their toll and his voice barely rose above a whisper. He was The Greatest. Muhammad Ali died Friday at…

Sinquefield has given millions of dollars to Missouri candidates and political committees

(AP) - It is becoming easier to buy an antidote that reverses the effect of a heroin or prescription painkiller overdose, as policymakers look for ways to fight a growing epidemic. Nearly every state has passed laws that allow people to buy the drug naloxone without requiring a prescription from their doctor. Major retailers Walgreens,…