Category Archives: Leaving

Winfrey’s Angel Network charity to shut down

By doris | Published: June 10, 2010

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com CHICAGO — Oprah Winfrey’s charity, The Angel Network, is shutting down as her talk show draws to a close. The network stopped accepting donations this week and said on its website that it plans to dissolve as soon as its remaining funds are disbursed. The Angel Network was launched in 1998 [...]

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U.S. renews travel alert to Mexico

By doris | Published: February 24, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The United States has renewed a travel alert to Mexico, citing increased violence in the country. The alert, issued Sunday by the State Department, is in effect until August 20 and supersedes an alert issued August 20, 2009. “Recent violent attacks have caused the U.S. Embassy to urge [...]

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Aide: Brazilian family gives up fight over boy

By doris | Published: December 24, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com RIO DE JANEIRO – A Brazilian family has decided to end its legal fight for custody of a 9-year-old boy and will obey a court order to turn him over to his U.S. father, an aide to the family’s lawyer said Wednesday. “It is certain the family will not pursue any [...]

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New Immigration Bill Is Introduced in House

By doris | Published: December 16, 2009

Full Story at NYTimes.com The bill, introduced by Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, Democrat of Illinois, was seen as the opening volley in what Democrats and Republicans expect to be a hard-fought battle. President Obama has pledged to take up the issue early next year; efforts to overhaul the laws during George W. Bush’s presidency failed [...]

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Troops, families mixed over Obama’s surge

By doris | Published: December 2, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com JACKSONVILLE, N.C. – Battle-weary troops and their families braced for a wrenching round of new deployments to Afghanistan announced Tuesday by the president, but many said they support the surge as long as it helps to end the eight-year-old conflict. As President Barack Obama outlined his plan to send 30,000 extra [...]

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Airport workers accused of smuggling migrants

By doris | Published: September 7, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A federal grand jury in the U.S. Virgin Islands has indicted two ticket agent contractors who worked for Delta Airlines and an airport employee on charges of conspiracy to smuggle illegal immigrants into the U.S. The ticket agents, identified as Diana Telemaque, 33, and Felicia Browne, [...]

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Stress of war takes mental toll on military kids

By doris | Published: August 14, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com The years-long U.S. commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan is taking a significant toll on the children of service members, who are 2½ times more likely to develop psychological problems than American children in general, new research indicates. The study, published this week in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, found [...]

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Nurse gets called out of surgery to get pink slip

By doris | Published: April 16, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com MADISON, Wis. – A nurse was called out of surgery so a manager could tell her she was being laid off. Dean Health said the surgery was minor and the patient wasn’t affected, but the manager who summoned the nurse from surgery violated medical protocol. Dean Health spokesman Paul Pitas said [...]

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N. Korea To Abandon Nuclear Negotiations

By doris | Published: April 14, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) North Korea vowed Tuesday to bolster its nuclear deterrent and boycott six-party talks aimed at its denuclearization in protest of a U.N. Security Council statement condemning the country’s recent rocket launch. North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it “resolutely condemns” the action by the United Nations, [...]

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12K U.S. Troops To Leave Iraq By Sept.

By doris | Published: March 8, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News CBS/AP) The U.S. military has announced that 12,000 American and 4,000 British troops will leave Iraq by September. Maj. Gen. David Perkins says that will reduce U.S. combat power from 14 brigades to 12 brigades. He also said Sunday that the U.S. is turning over more facilities to the Iraqi [...]

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Leaving Iraq: U.S. plans taking shape

By doris | Published: March 1, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com BAGHDAD – The U.S. military map in Iraq in early 2010: Marines are leaving the western desert, Army units are in the former British zone in the south and the overall mission is coalescing around air and logistics hubs in central and northern Iraq. Meanwhile, commanders will be shifting their attention [...]

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