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LONDON – Britain’s government on Wednesday disclosed a once-secret description of “cruel, inhuman and degrading” U.S. treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, losing a long court battle to keep the material classified. Judges rejected the government’s claim that revealing the information would damage U.S.-British intelligence cooperation. The information disclosed …

NEW YORK – A massive new federal study documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of serious child abuse in the U.S., especially sexual abuse. Experts hailed the findings as proof that crackdowns and public awareness campaigns had made headway. An estimated 553,000 children suffered physical, sexual or emotional …

GEORGETOWN, Del. – A former Georgetown high school teacher has been sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old student. Twenty-seven-year-old John Thompson was a highly regarded social studies teacher at Sussex Central High School until his arrest last summer. Superior Court Judge Richard Stokes sentenced …