Reuters - A U.S. judge sentenced the first former Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial to life in prison on Tuesday, denying defense calls for leniency over his treatment by CIA interrogators.

Reuters - President Barack Obama will propose a partial spending freeze to show his determination to join Republicans in tackling the U.S. budget deficit, but it probably will not be enough to avoid a bitter fight over cuts.

AP - Colleagues of a Virginia historian accused of altering a presidential pardon signed by Abraham Lincoln to make it appear he had made a major discovery say he betrayed the trust that had been placed in him.

AP - A judge on Tuesday set an Oct. 4 trial date for a Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009 using a bomb hidden in his underwear.

AP - The first, and possibly the last, Guantanamo detainee to have a U.S. civilian trial was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for his role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, a case that nearly unraveled when the defendant was convicted on just one of more than 280 counts.

AP - When a gunman went on a rampage inside a Detroit police station this week, he entered an open lobby with no metal detector, no bulletproof glass and just a tall desk separating him from the officers. The place had been designed as part of a "community policing" strategy to look friendly and less bunker-like.

AP - Illinois' highest court agreed Tuesday to decide whether Rahm Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor, and justices ordered election officials not to print any ballots without his name until they rule on the case.

AP - A picturesque town along the Oregon coast spent a second anxious day under a near lockdown as rifle-toting, camouflaged police searched for a man who shot an officer before fleeing into the woods.

AP - Michael Jackson's doctor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the pop superstar's death as the case moved rapidly toward a trial that will likely be televised.