en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/us/states/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/us/descendants_of_sitting_bull_craz/ The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday. "We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in th news us 2007-12-20 08:25:55 http://www.newsique.com/us/descendants_of_sitting_bull_craz/ Google Associated Press http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVC1KMTOgwiSoMQyT2LwZc9HyAgA http://www.newsique.com/sources/google_ap/ 100 Important [12] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/descendants_of_sitting_bull_craz/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/federal_id_plan_raises_priva1/ Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act. The act, signed in 2005 as part of an emergency military spending and tsunami relief bi news us 2007-08-17 09:40:24 http://www.newsique.com/us/federal_id_plan_raises_priva1/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/16/real.id/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Shocking [33] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/us/federal_id_plan_raises_priva1/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/us_vehicles_rank_bottom_in_world/ The United States ranks at the bottom of industrialized countries in vehicle fuel-economy standards, but would jump far up the list if legislation to boost mileage requirements clears Congress and is signed into law, according to a report released on Mond news us 2007-08-01 10:31:57 http://www.newsique.com/us/us_vehicles_rank_bottom_in_world/ Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN3024959820070730 http://www.newsique.com/sources/reuters/ 93 Important [10] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/us_vehicles_rank_bottom_in_world/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/mexico_seeks_changes_in_us_borde/ Mexico called on the United States to alter a plan to expand border fences designed to stem illegal immigration, saying the barriers would threaten migratory species accustomed to roaming freely across the frontier. Ways of minimizing environmental dam news us 2007-07-31 02:13:23 http://www.newsique.com/us/mexico_seeks_changes_in_us_borde/ USA Today http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/139042785/2007-07-30-mexico-border_N.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/usatoday/ 91 Interesting [6] 60 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/mexico_seeks_changes_in_us_borde/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/court_orders_release_of_enemy_co/ President George W. Bush cannot order the military to indefinitely imprison a suspected al Qaeda operative, who is the only foreign national held in the United States as an "enemy combatant," a court ruled on Monday. The 2-1 appellate ruling was a majo news us 2007-06-12 00:34:00 http://www.newsique.com/us/court_orders_release_of_enemy_co/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-usa-security-combatant.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin http://www.newsique.com/sources/nytimes/ 96 Amazing [19] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/us/court_orders_release_of_enemy_co/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/blame_coal_texas_leads_carbon_em/ America may spew more greenhouse gases than any other country, but some states are astonishingly more prolific polluters than others — and it's not always the ones you might expect. The Associated Press analyzed state-by-state emissions of carbon dio news us 2007-06-03 17:49:03 http://www.newsique.com/us/blame_coal_texas_leads_carbon_em/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070602/ap_on_sc/global_warming_states;_ylt=AmXcBbd1vsG4xBn.11QIDtYPLBIF http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/blame_coal_texas_leads_carbon_em/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/proposals_to_execute_pedophiles_/ The idea of executing child rapists, even when there in no loss of life, is making headway in the United States. The Louisiana Supreme Court last week upheld the death sentence for a pedophile, and the governor of Texas is soon to sign into law legisla news us 2007-05-30 11:21:05 http://www.newsique.com/us/proposals_to_execute_pedophiles_/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070528/ts_alt_afp/ussocietyjusticepoliticsexecution http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Important [14] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/proposals_to_execute_pedophiles_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/19000_iraqis_disappear_into_us-r/ Last summer, the Associated Press and New York Times each did stories on the detention facilities operated by the United States inside of Iraq. The conclusions of each investigation were roughly the same. At the time, they noted roughly 14,000 Iraqis opinion us 2007-05-14 09:21:25 http://www.newsique.com/us/19000_iraqis_disappear_into_us-r/ Harpers http://harpers.org/archive/2007/05/hbc-90000064 http://www.newsique.com/sources/harpers/ 97 Important [27] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/19000_iraqis_disappear_into_us-r/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/tainted_pet_food_may_have_entere/ Salvaged pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical was fed to hogs in as many as six states, federal health officials said Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if any of the hogs entered the food supply for humans. Food safety officials have q news us 2007-04-24 22:44:24 http://www.newsique.com/us/tainted_pet_food_may_have_entere/ FOX News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268181,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/fox_news/ 82 Important [10] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/tainted_pet_food_may_have_entere/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/ground_beef_recalled_in_5_states/ State health officials announced a recall in five states of frozen ground beef patties after at least three Napa County children who ate at Little League baseball snack shacks were sickened by E. coli. The recall was issued Friday for about 100,000 pou news us 2007-04-21 07:21:06 http://www.newsique.com/us/ground_beef_recalled_in_5_states/ FOX News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267580,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/fox_news/ 82 Important [14] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/ground_beef_recalled_in_5_states/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/widespread_storms_kill_at_least_/ A storm system that stretched nearly 1,000 miles from the Midwest to the Southeast on Thursday killed at least 20 people in three states, including eight who died when what appeared to be a tornado caused the roof to collapse at a high school in Enterpris news us 2007-03-02 08:20:21 http://www.newsique.com/us/widespread_storms_kill_at_least_/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/us/02cnd-tornado.html?ex=1330491600&en=fec9050e59161c5e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://www.newsique.com/sources/nytimes/ 96 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/widespread_storms_kill_at_least_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/drug_czar_reports_drop_in_drug_u/ Illegal drug use in the United States has dropped sharply since 2001 but abuse of prescription drugs remains a problem, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said Friday. John Walters said that President Bush's anti-dru news us 2007-02-11 14:48:25 http://www.newsique.com/us/drug_czar_reports_drop_in_drug_u/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070210/ap_on_re_us/drug_czar_strategy http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/drug_czar_reports_drop_in_drug_u/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/red_state_babylon_politics__powe/ If the blue states are sinkholes of moral decay, as right-wing pundits insist, how come red states lead the nation in violent crime, divorce, illegitimacy, and incarceration, among other evils? To a bus-riding innocent on Manhattan's stroller-filled Uppe opinion us 2006-11-03 13:21:05 http://www.newsique.com/us/red_state_babylon_politics__powe/ Vanity Fair http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/11/wolcott200611 http://www.newsique.com/sources/vanityfair/ 98 Under Rated [6] mrmdc http://www.newsique.com/profiles/mrmdc/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/red_state_babylon_politics__powe/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/us_tightens_medicaid_rules_for_b/ Under a new policy, children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants with low incomes will no longer be automatically entitled to health insurance through Medicaid, federal officials said today. news us 2006-11-02 22:12:54 http://www.newsique.com/us/us_tightens_medicaid_rules_for_b/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/washington/02cnd-medicaid.html?hp&ex=1162530000&en=ad3e1e13580a8a4d&ei=5094&partner=homepage http://www.newsique.com/sources/nytimes/ 96 Under Rated [8] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/us_tightens_medicaid_rules_for_b/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/police_arrest_10733_fugitives_in/ More than 10,000 fugitives, including 1,659 alleged sex offenders, were arrested in a week-long sweep by law enforcement officials in 24 eastern states, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Thursday. news us 2006-11-02 18:25:39 http://www.newsique.com/us/police_arrest_10733_fugitives_in/ Reuters http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-11-02T184008Z_01_N02121269_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-FUGITIVES.xml&WTmodLoc=USNewsHome_C1_%5BFeed%5D-1 http://www.newsique.com/sources/reuters/ 93 Under Rated [11] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/police_arrest_10733_fugitives_in/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/search_on_for_us_tornado_victims/ Rescue crews have been searching for victims of tornadoes that tore across five US states killing at least 55 people and injuring hundreds more. Dozens of twisters hit Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi at the end of the Super Tuesd news us 2008-02-07 08:19:48 http://www.newsique.com/us/search_on_for_us_tornado_victims/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/7231470.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/search_on_for_us_tornado_victims/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/west_water_woes_tied_to_mans_war/ People driving their cars, cranking on their air conditioners and switching on lights and dishwashers are responsible for most of the climate changes that are gradually drying up water supplies in arid and growing western states, a new study finds. Tho news us 2008-02-01 08:21:44 http://www.newsique.com/us/west_water_woes_tied_to_mans_war/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22935934/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/west_water_woes_tied_to_mans_war/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/feds_let_states_delay_bridge_che/ Bridge safety leaped to the top of the agenda of federal highway administrator J. Richard Capka in August, when 13 people died in the collapse of a bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. But even before the disaster, it would have been a per news us 2008-01-31 08:14:05 http://www.newsique.com/us/feds_let_states_delay_bridge_che/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22300234/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/feds_let_states_delay_bridge_che/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/vermont_is_the_greenest_state_in/ Another example: Maryland. Only 10 states have a lower carbon footprint per capita than Maryland, and the state has a relatively low instance of water facilities exceeding their Clean Water Act permits, according to PIRG. In addition, Maryland ranks 40th news us 2007-10-23 08:21:10 http://www.newsique.com/us/vermont_is_the_greenest_state_in/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21409672/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/vermont_is_the_greenest_state_in/#comments http://www.newsique.com/us/fewer_get_caught_selling_tobacco/ The percentage of retailers selling tobacco to underage youth during unannounced inspections dropped to 10.9% last year, the government reports. That is the lowest rates since states started conducting the stings a decade ago, according to figures bein news us 2007-10-05 08:19:14 http://www.newsique.com/us/fewer_get_caught_selling_tobacco/ USA Today http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/165624608/2007-10-05-tobacco-minors_N.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/usatoday/ 91 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/us/fewer_get_caught_selling_tobacco/#comments