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Amid Fears of Releases, U.S. Cedes Prisons to Afghanistan

Anja Niedringhaus/Associated Press An Afghan prisoner left the Bagram Prison after the American military gave control of its last detention facility to Afghan authorities on Monday. BAGRAM, Afghanistan — The American military formally transferred all but “a small number” of the Afghan prisoners at the Bagram Prison to the Afghan government on Monday in a ceremony [...]

A Private Boom Amid Detroit’s Public Blight

DETROIT — Private industry is blooming here, even as the city’s finances have descended into wreckage. In late 2011, Rachel Lutz opened a clothing shop, the Peacock Room, which proved so successful that she opened another one, Emerald, last fall. Shel Kimen, who had worked in advertising in New York, is negotiating to build a [...]