Category Archives: United States

Blind Chinese activist leaves for US

By doris | Published: May 19, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com BEIJING (AP) — A blind Chinese activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. Chen Guangcheng, his wife and their two children were on United Airlines Flight 88, which [...]

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Vietnamese businessman buys one-man Wyoming town for $900K

By doris | Published: May 6, 2012

Full Story at content.usatoday.com Buford, Wyo., population 1 and “the nation’s smallest town,” has a new owner. An unidentified businessman from Vietnam — on his first trip to the United States, joined by an associate — bought the one-man town at auction today for $900,000, the Associated Press tells us. (CNN is reporting that two [...]

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Jailed for $280: The return of debtors’ prisons

By doris | Published: April 23, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (MoneyWatch) How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn’t pay a medical bill — one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn’t owe. “She got a $280 medical bill in error and was told she didn’t have to pay it,” The Associated Press reports. [...]

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Obama: All US troops out of Iraq by end of year

By doris | Published: October 21, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from the country by year’s end. “As promised the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home [...]

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Twisted government accounting behind Postal Service woes

By doris | Published: October 10, 2011

Full Story at RedTape.msnbc.msn.com You might have heard that the United States Postal Service is in trouble: that it’s losing billions, that it will have to end Saturday service and close branches — and most inflammatory, that it might need a government bailout. Perhaps you heard that the Postal Service couldn’t pay $5.5 billion bill [...]

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Hackers strike at 70 US law enforcement websites

By doris | Published: August 7, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LONDON — The group known as Anonymous said Saturday it has hacked into some 70 law enforcement websites across the southern and central United States in retaliation for arrests of its sympathizers in the U.S. and Britain. The hacking group also claimed to have stolen 10 gigabytes of data, including emails, [...]

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Memorial Day marked by ceremonies, tributes

By doris | Published: May 30, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Americans from Washington to California are marking Memorial Day with parades, barbecues and special tributes tied to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. An annual holiday honoring the nation’s war dead was infused with new meaning this year, coming just months before the 10-year anniversary.

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Warriors who became walking libraries

By doris | Published: May 28, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Roland Marbaugh wrote 509 pages of his tales of war — from the swampy Solomon Islands in World War II to the frozen Chosin Reservoir in Korea. His son typed them all up on an electric typewriter in the 1980s but unpublished, Marbaugh’s stories remained largely in [...]

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Missiles strike Libya in first wave of allied assault

By doris | Published: March 19, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com BENGHAZI, Libya — A coalition of American and European forces bombed Libyan targets by air and sea Saturday in the first phase of a military campaign to drive Moammar Gadhafi from power. French warplanes fired the first shots in the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war, destroying government tanks [...]

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New rule for truck, bus drivers: No texting

By doris | Published: January 27, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Drivers of commercial trucks and buses are prohibited from texting under federal guidelines that U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Tuesday. “We want the drivers of big rigs and buses and those who share the roads with them to be safe,” LaHood said in a statement. “This is [...]

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Report: New bin Laden tape emerges

By doris | Published: January 25, 2010

Full Story at  CNN.com (CNN) — A new audio tape allegedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden claims responsibility for an attempt to blow up a plane en route to Michigan on Christmas Day and warns the United States of more attacks. The tape, which aired on the Arabic-language news Web site Al-Jazeera on [...]

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Vietnam vet: ‘I’m not ashamed to say I shed some tears’

By doris | Published: November 11, 2009

Full Story at The-Daily-Record.com RITTMAN DISTRICT — Asking all 18- and 19-year-olds to stand, Gary Maibach urged Rittman students to look at the teenagers. Those are the ones asked to serve their country in the military, Maibach said, not gray-haired grandfathers. Maibach, who served as a medic in the Army during the Vietnam War, encouraged [...]

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N. Korea marks July 4 with missile barrage

By doris | Published: July 4, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, a violation of U.N. resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day. The launches, which came two days after North Korea fired four short-range cruise missiles, [...]

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Iraq insists on U.S. leaving cities by end of June

By doris | Published: May 5, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com BAGHDAD – Iraq’s government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that Iraqi forces cannot cope with the security challenge following a recent resurgence of bombings. Asking U.S. forces to stay in the cities, including volatile [...]

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Swine flu creates controversy on Twitter

By doris | Published: April 28, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Some observers say Twitter — a micro-blogging site where users post 140-character messages — has become a hotbed of unnecessary hype and misinformation about the outbreak, which is thought to have claimed more than 100 lives in Mexico. “This is a good example of why [Twitter is] headed in that wrong [...]

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Regular flu season precautions advised in current outbreak

By doris | Published: April 27, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Health officials’ advice is to follow common-sense precautions: Wash your hands, stay home if you’re sick and listen to your local health authorities. “Very frequent hand-washing is something that we talk about time and time again and that is an effective way to reduce transmission of disease,” Dr. Richard Besser, acting [...]

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Fidel Castro: Obama Misinterpreted Raul

By doris | Published: April 22, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (AP) Fidel Castro said Tuesday that President Obama “misinterpreted” his brother Raul’s sentiments toward the United States and bristled at any suggestion Cuba should free political prisoners or reduce official fees on money sent to the island from the U.S. Raul Castro touched off a whirlwind of speculation that the [...]

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Pirates holding U.S. hostage: ‘We’re not afraid’

By doris | Published: April 10, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somali pirates holding an American hostage on a drifting lifeboat vowed on Friday to fight any attack by U.S. naval forces stalking them at high sea. “We are not afraid of the Americans,” one of the pirates told Reuters by satellite phone on behalf of the gang holding [...]

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Gun Dealer Accused Of Selling To Cartels

By doris | Published: March 10, 2009

Full Story At CBS News (CBS) In Phoenix Monday, a gun dealer went on trial for supplying assault rifles to Mexican drug gangs who are locked in a bloody war with authorities — and each other. CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy reports on a case that’s being watched closely in both the United States, and [...]

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Stimulus Money Already Creating Jobs

By doris | Published: March 7, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS) President Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus package won final approval less than a month ago, and the money is already being put to work on construction, infrastructure, government and social services projects around the country. CBS news correspondents Jeff Glor and Ben Tracy take a look at two places [...]

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