Miami Herald

miamiherald.com — Military lawyers for former CIA captives held at Guantánamo are appealing to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to intervene in what they describe as deteriorating conditions and leadership failures on a scale similar to the Vietnam War's My Lai Massacre. Hagel is a Vietnam combat veteran. Army Capt.

miamiherald.com — MACARTHUR CAUSEWAY ATTACK On Twitter: Use the hashtag #Wishes4Poppo to send Ronald Poppo notes, which his nurses will read to him next week. Ronald Poppo listens to Heat games through a portable radio, but he'll never watch TV again. He's relearning how to play guitar, but he has lost interest in reconnecting with his family.

miamiherald.com — The Associated Press Gatorland is preparing to welcome more than 70 animals that the central Florida zoo purchased from a recently closed attraction in southwest Florida. Alligators, crocodiles, snakes, turtles, deer and bobcats are arriving from Everglades Wonder Gardens in Bonita Springs, Gatorland announced Tuesday.

miamiherald.com — Bolivia's culture minister calls it actor-activist Sean Penn's "worst performance" ever. He isn't talking about a movie. Minister Pablo Groux is slamming Penn's proposal to a U.S. congressional subcommittee Monday that Bolivia be cut out of the Dakar motor sport rally unless it frees a U.S.

miamiherald.com — INSURANCE Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau Two months after contributing $110,000 to Gov. Rick Scott's reelection campaign, an upstart property insurance company is likely to reap a $52 million windfall, paid from the coffers of Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

miamiherald.com — WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon wants more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantánamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close. New details on the administration's budget request for next year and other expenses emerged on Tuesday.

miamiherald.com — SUPER BOWL A failed attempt to upgrade Sun Life Stadium appears to have hurt Miami as NFL owners awarded Super Bowl 50 to San Francisco and Super Bowl 51 to Houston. WEB VOTE Should Miami have been awarded a Super Bowl even though Sun Life Stadium is not going to be renovated?

miamiherald.com — AP National Writer A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved - and disable it remotely. The technology, but not an actual gun, was slated to be demonstrated Tuesday at a wireless technology conference in Las Vegas and was shown to The Associated Press in advance.

miamiherald.com — I know it was hard to hear anything last week over the cacophony of the White House roof falling over Benghazi, the IRS and spying on reporters. But still, I was surprised there wasn't more fuss about the Obama administration's war on Shakespeare.

miamiherald.com — The U.S. military has shut down wireless internet service at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba because of online hacking threats. Prison spokesman Army Lt. Col. Samuel House said the military also blocked access to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter through military computer networks because of the threat.

miamiherald.com — Associated Press The owners of the 18 Mexican first-division soccer clubs voted Monday to bar one person or one company from owning more than one team. The vote was an apparent move to stop tycoon Carlos Slim from expanding his growing influence in Mexican soccer.

miamiherald.com — Antonio Banderas will play the charismatic miner known as "Super Mario," who in 2010 became the public face of 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for 69 days. Producer Mike Medavoy announced Sunday at Cannes that Banderas will star as Mario Sepulveda in "The 33."

miamiherald.com — INVASIVE SPECIES Jason Leon said he has two regrets about slicing the head off the longest Burmese python recorded in Florida: He wishes he didn't have to slay the beast, and he wishes his bedroom walls were big enough to mount the snake's skin.