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The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings Wednesday to determine the future of the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, following a searing report by Amnesty International and calls by activists and politicians to close the facility.

The violence in Sudan's Darfur region has been labeled "genocide," but little has been done to stop it. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof describes what needs to be done.