The previously secret documents released this week about the suspected terrorists that the U.S. has held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reveal a lot about how that detention center works, says one of the journalists who has done some of the most extensive reporting about that facility since it began receiving prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Eric Deggans is TV and media critic for the St. Petersburg Times.

Katie Couric announced today that she was leaving her post at CBS Evening News, and would be looking for a job that will allow her to "engage in more multi-dimensional storytelling." There are plenty of commentators who say this is another nail in the coffin for traditional newscasts.

Uncool as it sounds, I'll be the guy to say it out loud: the old school network evening newscast still has value. It should be saved.

Over the past month, a quarrel has broken out in public between two conservative heavyweights in Washington.

On one side is Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, who's looking for a grand compromise to bring down annual deficits. He says the solution may involve an increase in tax revenues.

On the other side is anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, who says Coburn is breaking a long-standing pledge not to raise taxes.

The 'Taxpayer Protection Pledge'

Over the past week, we've learned that the iPhone keeps an encrypted log of location data that you can't turn off; we've learned Google does something similar on its Android devices, and, today, Microsoft laid it all out and said their Windows Phones do just about the same thing.

We've known she was going to go for several weeks.

Now, Katie Couric has confirmed — to People magazine — that "I have decided to step down from the CBS Evening News."

"What's next for the 32-year broadcast veteran?" People asks"

More than 100 local law enforcement agencies across Colorado are partnering with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA, for a second drug take-back day.

The rebels in Libya are short of many things these days — weapons, money, even Cabinet ministers.

In the largely improvised scramble to set up an alternative to leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime, the rebels are leaning heavily on a small number of people. One of them is Ali Tarhouni, a University of Washington economics professor who abruptly left his family and students to join an uncertain Libyan revolution.

Tarhouni is not an easy man to sit down with these days; it would be an exaggeration to call him a one-man Cabinet, but sometimes it seems that way.

Height is often used as a proxy for health, because children who get good nutrition and health care tend to grow taller than their forebears.

Now new research shows that the average height of women in 14 African countries is shrinking. And that spells bad news for the future health of those nations.

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health looked at the heights of women ages 25 to 49 in 54 countries who had been measured between 1994 and 2008, and compared that to the heights of women in 1945.

Time, patience "and most likely, inside help."

Those were some of the keys to the Taliban's successful break into a prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which was followed Monday by the escape through a 1,000-foot tunnel of around 500 prisoners.