Obama 'not ready to concede' Guantanamo will stay open

With months left in office, US President Barack Obama said Thursday he was not ready to give up on an eight-year-old promise to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Obama urgently wants to shutter the facility before he leaves the White House at the start of next year but his efforts have been continually thwarted by Republican lawmakers. "I am not ready to concede that it may still remain open, because we're still working diligently to continue to shrink the population," Obama said at a press co