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Rights Groups Criticize Trump's Move to Keep Guantanamo Open

Rights groups are criticizing President Donald Trump's decision to keep the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba open. "I am keeping another promise," Trump said Tuesday in his State of the Union address, having signed an executive order that cancels a 2009 order in which then-President Barack Obama pledged to shutter the facility. In his speech, Trump said such facilities were crucial in ensuring the U.S. has "all necessary power to detain...

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