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U.S. / NEWS Wed May 28, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- If you want a good glimpse of the multiracial experience in America, get inside Louie Gong’s skin. “I’m Nooksack, I’m Chinese, I’m French and I’m Scottish,” Gong tells viewers of a multimedia piece he placed on YouTube to help spark discu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

CBS News -- Matt Stewart blames the Boy Scouts of America for his lost childhood. "The first time I was molested was at the age of either six or seven," Stewart told CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes. "I was molested all the way up until I was 18 years old.".. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun May 6, 2007 @ 3:39am neoform

FOX News -- A female was hospitalized in critical condition after being stabbed in the stomach by a 14-year-old boy at the Mall of America, police said Saturday. The stabbing happened around 2:30 p.m. on the third floor of the mall, said Commander Jim Ryan of the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 3:48pm mrmdc

CNN -- Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. In recent years, banks across the country have been offering checking accounts a.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Jan 4, 2007 @ 12:17pm neoform

Alter Net -- The radical Christian Right is coming dangerously close to its goal of taking over the country’s military and law enforcement... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 27, 2006 @ 2:50pm neoform

Telegraph -- The land of the free has become the home of the rude thanks to the "arrogant" and "unpredictable" immigration officials who police its borders, according to a survey of travellers... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 14, 2006 @ 12:57am neoform

Times Online -- One of America's leading news programmes has come under severe criticism after teaming up with a group of vigilantes to entrap suspected paedophiles at a quiet suburban street in Texas... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 11, 2006 @ 11:36pm neoform

Washington Post -- It's about God, America and the bonds of friendship. Or, maybe, it's just about beer... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 18, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- The jet stream — America's stormy weather maker — is creeping northward and weakening, new research shows. That potentially means less rain in the already dry South and Southwest and more storms in the North. And it could also translate into more a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 13, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

FOX News -- A 4-year-old boy drowned Thursday in a wave pool at the Paramount Great America amusement park in Santa Clara, authorities said. The boy was unconscious when park lifeguards pulled him from a two-foot-deep section of the Great Barrier Reef, according t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 9, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

FOX News -- Just two hours before America's Most Wanted was to air a profile on Mark Petersimes, the sex offender wanted by authorities was caught in Denver. Petersimes, 47, was arrested Saturday night when an 11-year-old girl went into a Family Dollar store in La.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 7:24am neoform

ABC News -- In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly inclu.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue May 22, 2007 @ 8:00am neoform

Alter Net -- With over half of America's 1 million active and reserve soldiers enlisted as teens, the military is luring kids as young as 13 using a PR machine that would make Joe Camel proud. Congratulations: You have lived long enough to cringe at the bad decisio.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 11:10am neoform

BBC News -- A controversial new idea suggests that a large space rock exploded over North America 13,000 years ago. The blast may have wiped out one of America's first Stone Age cultures as well as the continent's big mammals such as the mammoth and the mastodon... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Mon Apr 2, 2007 @ 11:05am neoform

Alter Net -- A dirty little secret about America is that public libraries have become de facto daytime shelters for the nation's street people while librarians are increasingly our unofficial social workers for the homeless and mentally disturbed. Ophelia sits by t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 26, 2007 @ 9:34am neoform

Yahoo News -- Watch your flanks! That's a sound piece of advice US politicians have ignored as they remain mesmerized by the train wreck called Iraq. Meanwhile, a ruthlessly mercantilist China is running a flanking maneuver so effective that it now threatens America's.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 15, 2006 @ 4:07pm neoform

CBC -- A hometown company's satirical holiday card features Cleveland's ranking as America's poorest big city... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sun Oct 29, 2006 @ 11:21pm neoform

Military.com -- If President George Bush's hasty news conference on Iraq this week was the Republican October Surprise -- unveiling some sudden presidential flexibility after three and a half years of stubbornly staying a losing course -- it didn't work... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sun Oct 29, 2006 @ 1:09pm neoform

MSNBC -- Many months ago it became obvious to all but the most ideologically blinkered that America is losing the war launched to deal with a chimeric problem (an arsenal of WMD) and to achieve a delusory goal (a democracy that would inspire emulation, transformin.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 24, 2006 @ 3:35pm mrmdc

Spiegel -- At the beginning of the 21st century, the United States is still a superpower. But it's a superpower facing competition from beyond its borders as well as internal difficulties. Its lower and middle classes are turning out to be the losers of globalizati.. Read More