Today's Globe national news stories

Heinz Kerry says she has breast cancer

Teresa Heinz Kerry said she is being treated for breast cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital and will undergo radiation next month.

Plan to house detainees in Ill. prison is delayed

Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantanamo Bay prison.