Ventura: If waterboarding is fine, why don't cops do it?

Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, making a guest appearance on ABC’s The View, gave co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck a lesson or two about the torture technique known as waterboarding. -=W/ VIDEO=-

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Obama in political box over closing Guantanamo

President Barack Obama will have to defend his hasty promise to close Guantanamo. Legal and diplomatic issues regarding such a closure abound.

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'Misery breeds violence' in Haiti's seaside slum

Roudeline Lamy was 23 when she was shot in the stomach. The impact of the bullet sent the small baby she was holding tumbling to the ground.

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Workers march in May Day rallies

Labour unions in dozens of countries around the world are using traditional May Day marches to protest over the handling of the global economic crisis.

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