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U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 20, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

Google Associated Press -- The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 9:40am neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 10:31am neoform

Reuters -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 31, 2007 @ 2:13am neoform

USA Today -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 12:34am neoform

New York Times -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jun 3, 2007 @ 5:49pm neoform

Yahoo News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 11:21am neoform

Yahoo News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Mon May 14, 2007 @ 9:21am neoform

Harpers -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 24, 2007 @ 10:44pm neoform

FOX News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Apr 21, 2007 @ 7:21am neoform

FOX News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

New York Times -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Feb 11, 2007 @ 2:48pm neoform

Yahoo News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Nov 3, 2006 @ 1:21pm mrmdc

Vanity Fair -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 10:12pm neoform

New York Times -- 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... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 6:25pm neoform

Reuters -- 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... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 7, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 1, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 31, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

MSNBC -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 23, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 5, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

USA Today -- 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.. Read More