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U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 2:57pm neoform

CNN -- The city's planning board has endorsed a proposal for a twisting lakefront tower that would become the nation's tallest building. With Thursday's approval from the Chicago Plan Commission, the design and site plan for the 2,000-foot Chicago Spire goes.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sun Feb 4, 2007 @ 1:12pm neoform

International Herald Tribune -- In June, short of people to process cases of incompetence and fraud by federal contractors, officials at the General Services Administration responded with what has become the government's reflexive answer to almost every problem... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 5, 2007 @ 10:23pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Entitlements: About to become law is an agreement allowing illegal aliens to get Social Security benefits after only 18 months of employment in the U.S., further burdening a system on the brink of collapse... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

CNN -- Tropical Storm Lorenzo has become a hurricane, the National Hurricane Center reported Thursday evening. The storm, speeding along at 75 mph (125 km) at 8 p.m. ET, was expected to come ashore in Mexico early Friday. Additional strengthening is possible.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

Alter Net -- From torture to warrantless wiretapping, the Bush administration's approach to terrorism has defied legal standards at all levels. Back in September 2002, Maher Arar was passing through JFK airport in New York. He was expecting a simple transit. A Syri.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

ABC News -- New Mexico is set to become the first U.S. state to set up a cultivation and distribution system for medical marijuana, sewing the seeds of a possible showdown with federal drug enforcement authorities. Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democratic presidential c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 12:18pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- To become law the measure must also be approved by the Senate and then signed by the president. If approved, it would become the US's first new gun control legislation since 1994. The bill was drafted after Cho Seung-Hui, a student, shot and killed 32.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 24, 2007 @ 1:07pm neoform

CBS News -- When Alexis Jones tried buying house and found several accounts she didn't recognize on her credit report, she knew she had become an identity theft victim. Every year 45,000 other Californians become victims of identity theft. "I do a lot of Internet.. Read More