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In case you were wondering, Sarah Palin has no plans to announce tomorrow whether she’ll run for president . “This is a serious decision, and I’ve engaged in serious deliberations. So within the next 24 hours don’t look for me to make a decision,” she said, according to excerpts of an interview on Fox Business Network set to air tonight.

Jury cannot be told plaintiff undocumentedPublished: Aug. 17, 2011 at 6:53 PM NASHVILLE, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A jury seated to determine civil damages cannot be told a woman who was shackled while she had a baby in Tennessee is an illegal immigrant, a U.S. judge says. The judge also barred the Davidson County Sheriff's Office from using two expert witnesses, The (Nashville) Tennessean reported. The witnesses were expected to testify they believe any anguish Juana Villegas suffered during the delivery three years ago came from fear of being deported. Villegas was near her due date when she was stopped...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- An inmate made a break for it Tuesday, losing his clothes in the process, authorities said. Bradley Norris was under a detention deputy's watch at the Lake Wales hospital Tuesday when investigators said he attacked her and made a run for it. He lost his hospital gown in the struggle. The be-on-the-lookout call was for a naked man shackled at the ankles. He made it 300 yards before being captured.

FOUR British men who were released from Guantánamo Bay detention centre after three years in captivity have formally sued the US government after alleging they had been subjected to torture and other human rights violations. The groundbreaking legal claim was brought in Washington yesterday by Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed, who during their incarceration became known as the Tipton Three, and Jamal al-Harith, from Manchester, who have each demanded £5.5 million in the lawsuits from the United States. The men, who were captured in Afghanistan during the US "war on terror" in the aftermath of the attacks on...