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U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 3:30pm neoform

CNN -- Eduardo Gonzalez, a petty officer second class with the U.S. Navy, is about to be deployed overseas for a third time. Making his deployment even tougher is the fact his wife may not be around when he comes back. His wife faces deportation to Guatemala.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:08am neoform

CNN -- For 11 years, Pedro Zapeta, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, lived his version of the American dream in Stuart, Florida: washing dishes and living frugally to bring money back to his home country. Two years ago, Zapeta was ready to return to Guate.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jul 28, 2007 @ 9:46am neoform

CNN -- John Feigenbaum didn't sleep at all during his redeye flight across the country. He's not a nervous flier -- he was carrying a dime worth $1.9 million. Feigenbaum, 38, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is a rare coin dealer, and the dime he was carrying fro.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun May 20, 2007 @ 11:43am neoform

USA Today -- It's gloomy out there. Men and women, whites and minorities — all are feeling a war-weary pessimism about the country seldom shared by so many people. Only 25% of those surveyed say things in the U.S. are going in the right direction, according to an.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 9, 2007 @ 10:34am neoform

CBS News -- It didn't feel like April in much of the country Monday morning, with unseasonably cold temperatures and, near the Great Lakes, snow. The cold snap also put a chill on Easter Sunday services across the Southeast and much of the rest of the country, mov.. 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 6, 2006 @ 11:05am mrmdc

Ars Technica -- US Customs and Border Protection issued a notice in the Federal Register yesterday which detailed the agency's massive database that keeps risk assessments on every traveler entering or leaving the country. Citizens who are concerned that their informati.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 22, 2008 @ 8:23am neoform

MSNBC -- The Imperial Valley of California is ideal country for solar and wind power. It rains less than three inches a year. Temperatures hit 110 degrees in the summer. The wind blows pretty steadily, too. And it's just east of San Diego. Now, because of a Cal.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 4, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- President Bush apologized Monday that the country waited decades to honor Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble for his military valor in Korea, giving him the Medal of Honor more than 25 years after he died. Keeble is the first full-blooded Sioux Indian t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 19, 2007 @ 4:32pm neoform

New York Times -- Nalini Ghuman, an up-and-coming musicologist and expert on the British composer Edward Elgar, was stopped at the San Francisco airport in August last year and, without explanation, told that she was no longer allowed to enter the United States. Her cas.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 24, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

USA Today -- The Iraqi government's inability to stop sectarian violence and stabilize the country may waste military gains made by U.S. and allied forces there, according to a newly released intelligence document and key members of Congress. Iraq's leaders remain.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Aug 14, 2007 @ 10:50am neoform

Financial Times -- The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country’s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 18, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

USA Today -- The Homeland Security Department is vigorously fighting a move by Congress to delay a requirement that U.S. citizens show a passport to re-enter the country by land or sea from Mexico, Canada, Bermuda or the Caribbean, saying it puts the nation's borders.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 3:41pm neoform

SF Gate -- New York has the right to deny driver's licenses to people who can't prove they are in the country legally, the state's highest court ruled Thursday. A lawsuit brought by immigrants and their advocates claimed a Department of Motor Vehicles policy "is.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 8:45am neoform

CNN -- Border officers will no longer have the discretion to ignore directives barring someone from entering the country after a man crossed the border with a rare form of tuberculosis last month, a Department of Homeland Security official said Tuesday. From.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 8, 2007 @ 10:53am neoform

FOX News -- The Rev. Michael Bingham says the cold snap that greeted much of the country over Easter Weekend could have an effect on the musicians performing in a sunrise service at his church Sunday. Bingham is pastor of Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 8, 2007 @ 10:34am neoform

SF Gate -- The Rev. Michael Bingham says the cold snap that greeted much of the country over Easter Weekend could have an effect on the musicians performing in a sunrise service at his church Sunday. Bingham is pastor of Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Apr 7, 2007 @ 12:09am neoform

FOX News -- The three children allegedly abducted by their father and taken out of the country were found this week in Honduras and are now back in the United States, family members told FOXNews.com on Friday. U.S. officials are working on extraditing the father q.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Oct 29, 2006 @ 12:03am neoform

Newsvine -- David M. Walker sure talks like he's running for office. "This is about the future of our country, our kids and grandkids," the comptroller general of the United States warns a packed hall at Austin's historic Driskill Hotel. "We the people have to r.. Read More