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Controversy flares over US warship named for Murtha
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised the Navy’s decision to name an amphibious warship after Rep. John Murtha, but the formal announcement Friday added fuel to an already smoldering backlash online.
10 killed as tornado strikes rural Mississippi countryside
At least 10 people were killed when the tornado ripped through the rural Mississippi countryside, but the stories told by survivors on Sunday show how much higher the toll could have been.
Arizona governor signs controversial immigration enforcement bill
Gov. Jan Brewer ignored criticism from President Barack Obama on Friday and signed into law a bill supporters said would take handcuffs off police in dealing with illegal immigration in Arizona, the nation's busiest gateway for human and drug smug...
(...) Residents, co-op boards and building management companies have been busy planning for the sudden complications that could come at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday with the possible departure of the building workers who, among many other things, hold ope...
Iran may be able to build a missile capable of striking the United States by 2015, according to an unclassified Defense Department report on Iran's military sent to Congress and released on Monday.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has announced that all adoptions by U.S. citizens had been halted until the two countries could work out an agreement following a Tennessee mother's decision last week to put her 7-year-old adopted son on a plane back to ...
An article in Talking Points Memo introduces the "Crash The Tea Party" activist group that aims to discredit the Tea Party political movement by infiltrating in their members and make them look like fools.
A New Jersey teenager girl has been arrested for allegedly making a racist announcement over a Whole Foods Market grocery store's public address system.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday called on the United States to take a lead in creating global financial regulations together with Europe in order to avoid future crises.
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President Barack Obama made an unannounced six-hour trip to Afghanistan's capital Sunday night, mainly to boost the morale of tens of thousands of U.S. troops who are being deployed in the country.
Pentagon introduces new measures to soften U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Thursday announced new guidelines for how the military enforcing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The new rules will restrict the circle of who or what can initiate an inquiry into allegations of miscon...
The United States and Russia reached a deal to slash their nuclear arsenals to the lowest levels in half a century, after eight months of negotiations, and expect to sign a treaty next month, officials from both countries said on Wednesday.
Many American soldiers are showing signs of psychological distress after spending years on the battlefield, and an increasing number are turning to prescription medication to ease their symptoms.
Two Arizona women were attacked by a swarm of bees and stung hundreds of times while they were out for a walk in Phoenix on Thursday evening. The women were rushed to hospital in critical condition, authorities said.
Wal-Mart says it may have been a customer who misused a New Jersey store's public address system last Sunday announcing "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now."
A former American NATO commander and senior marine officer, Gen John Sheehan blamed "open homosexuality" in the Dutch army for the failure to prevent the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. Gen Sheehan made the comments at a U.S. Senate hearing where he ...
U.S. President Barack Obama, who was born to a Kenyan father and an American mother, moved to Indonesia at the age of seven, after his mother married an Indonesian man, Lolo Soetoro, she met while studying at the University of Hawaii. The recently...
A calm male voice announced "Attention, Wal-Mart customers: All black people, leave the store now," over the public-address system at a New Jersey store on Sunday evening. The incident prompted apologies on Wednesday from the management of the com...
A single-engine plane with oil covering its windshield, while trying to make an emergency landing, hit and killed a man on a South Carolina beach Monday afternoon.
A Guardian article allows readers some insight in the world of secret-service bodyguards surrounding U.S. President Barack Obama. It ponders questions, like who wants to kill him, and how likely are they to succeed?