Headlines from May 21, 2009

In the form of a Pentagon report, ammo for keeping Gitmo open: One in seven prisoners returns to terrorism or militant activity.
Last night, four men were arrested for plotting to bomb Bronx synagogues and use antiaircraft missiles to down military planes.
Health officials confirm that, due to fallout from the 1918 flu, people born before 1957 appear to have some immunity to swine flu.
"No matter which way the cases go, they mishandle it." U.N. struggles to free itself from sexual harassment complaints.
New report details 60 years of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse suffered by ten of thousands of children at church-run orphanages in Ireland.
A quarter of a million Tamils face two years of internment in squalid camps as Sri Lanka attempts to find and prosecute Tiger fighters.
Bloomberg's reelection campaign team is a $155,000-a-day mercenary army with no one to fight.
The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace.
Wire creator David Simon reveals more details about his new series, Treme, set in New Orleans.