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Three detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp took their own lives early Saturday. Two were from Saudi Arabia, a third from Yemen. All three hanged themselves, and left suicide notes written in Arabic.

Four Connecticut librarians spoke bitterly Tuesday about a months' long gag order they were subjected to after the FBI requested patrons' records under the Patriot Act. The librarians decried their inability to participate in congressional debate on how to rewrite the act.

Each year an estimated 90,000 people die after picking-up a bacterial infection in a hospital. Now, some states are developing consumer report cards to rank hospitals according to their infection rates.

The songwriter slammed what he described as a "culture" of baseless lawsuits intended to squeeze money out of artists eager to avoid the expense of a trial.

More than 150,000 displaced Ukrainians now live in Krakow, increasing the population by 20% in just a few weeks. Now the city is helping them find long-term housing, jobs and spots in schools.

One brigade slated for deployment to Iraq this summer will instead be staying in Germany, courtesy of the Pentagon's reassessment of troop levels. Will political progress in Baghdad allow the Defense Department to lower U.S. force levels in the weeks ahead?

The California Supreme Court has reinstated the state's high school exit exam as a graduation requirement. The divided ruling means that 47,000 seniors who haven't passed the test may not be able to graduate.

Would-be borrowers who have iffy credit ratings are turning to those with strong credit for help — and a cottage industry of credit-for-rent companies has sprung up to match them. Federal regulators are investigating the practice, but they haven't banned it.

Police chiefs John Timoney of Miami and Gil Kerlikowske of Seattle are amping up their cities' Forth of July security measures in the wake of last week's terrorism attempts in Britain.

Brad Schlozman, who replaced the U.S. attorney who was fired in Missouri, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he hired a certain number of Republicans at the Justice Dept. He is accused of politicizing the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. He answered questions about a bringing a couple of politically controversial voter fraud cases just before the close 2006 election in Missouri.