Tag: united states
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October 09, 2006 09:54 PM EDT --
North Korea announced Sunday that they had conducted an underground nuclear test, drawing condemnation from leaders from Washington to Seoul to Beijing ("Nations condemn NK nuke test"). . . .
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October 17, 2006 10:08 PM EDT --
On Tuesday, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act, a law which spells out in further detail the protocols for interrogating and trying terror suspects ("Bush signs bill to interrogate, . . .
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March 19, 2007 01:14 PM EDT --
Four years ago today, the United States and its coalition partners unleashed missiles and bombs on Iraqi targets officially beginning the War in Iraq. Back then, most Americans supported the effort. . . .
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October 23, 2006 09:19 PM EDT --
With eight days left in the month, October has already become the deadliest month yet in 2006 for U.S. forces in Iraq. Eighty-nine American soldiers have been killed, and 2,300 have died since 2003. . . .
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November 16, 2006 11:59 PM EST --
General John Abizaid, the commander of all U.S. forces in the Middle East, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday to address concerns about progress in the Iraq War ("Top . . .
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October 17, 2006 12:33 AM EDT --
Married couples in America for the first time ever form a minority of households, according to a new American Community Survey released this month by the Census Bureau ("To Be Married Means to Be . . .
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October 18, 2006 08:13 PM EDT --
The United Nations General Assembly remains in a stalemate after several rounds of voting to try to pick a nation to fill a non-permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council ("U.S. and Venezuela Battle . . .
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November 02, 2006 11:06 PM EST --
The 2004 Presidential election featured the highest rate of voter turnout in decades, and it's looking like turnout in this year's Congressional elections will also surpass recent midterms. . . .
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January 03, 2007 05:59 PM EST --
Last week marked the execution of one of the world’s most notorious dictators of the past three decades – Saddam Hussein. The former Iraqi President was hung by the Iraqi government before . . .
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July 16, 2006 07:56 PM EDT --
The Middle East is in crisis mode, with Israel and Lebanon facing air strikes deep into each others' territories. Israel has been attacked in previously safe cities like Haifa and Tiberias, and strikes . . .
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November 28, 2006 12:54 AM EST --
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a press conference Monday that unless conditions on the ground in Iraq change drastically, “we could be [in a civil war]. In fact we are almost there.” . . .
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January 15, 2007 04:02 PM EST --
As we observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the debate over the display of the Confederate flag on public grounds has resurfaced (“Biden wants Confederate flag off grounds”). Senators Joe . . .
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March 15, 2007 10:40 AM EDT --
On Wednesday, the Pentagon released the full transcript of the military hearing at Guantanamo at which suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to those and many other terror plots. . . .
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April 05, 2007 10:34 AM EDT --
Washington has been in an uproar for the past week over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) diplomatic trip to Syria. The trip was not cleared by either the White House or the State Department, . . .
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March 28, 2007 11:34 AM EDT --
In the opening pages of Bill Bradley's new book, "The New American Story", Bradley says we are a country divided by political affiliation. He maintains if we want America to move forward, . . .
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January 22, 2007 02:54 PM EST --
This past weekend witnessed a flurry of new announcements from 2008 presidential hopefuls (“Rush of Entries Gives ’08 Race Early Intensity”). New to the mix are Senators Hillary . . .
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December 06, 2006 01:47 AM EST --
Robert Gates, the man slated to replace Donald Rumsfeld as United States Secretary of Defense, said at his Senate confirmation hearings Tuesday that America is not winning the war in Iraq (“Gates . . .
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December 07, 2006 04:22 PM EST --
On November 7, Keith Ellison was elected to be America’s first Muslim congressman, and controversy over his religion is already mounting. Ellison recently declared his intention to carry the . . .
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December 13, 2006 11:25 AM EST --
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Tuesday that “the Zionist Regime (Israel) will soon be wiped out.” (“Iran President: Israel will be wiped out”) He made the . . .
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January 11, 2007 01:34 AM EST --
Perhaps the most poorly kept secret in Washington this week was confirmed by President Bush Wednesday night: that he intends to send more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq in order to calm the insurgency . . .
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