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Health Care Reform Bill: Americans fight back, Katy Abram's story
August 11, 2009Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), who switched from the Republican to Democratic Party this year, was confronted with questions and statements at a town hall meeting in Lebanon, Pennsylvania on Tuesday. His constituency is frustrated about the Democratic...
Bill Clinton, Freed Journalists Head Home From North Korea
August 04, 2009Two U.S. journalists released from detention in North Korea are on their way back to the United States, accompanied by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who negotiated their freedom. A spokesman for Mr. Clinton says the former president, Laura Ling...
Romanian-Moldovan students attended the US Presidential Classroom
July 27, 2009Fifteen Romanian and Moldovan high-school students from the cities of Bucharest, Falticeni, Turda, Calarasi, Onesti and Grigoriopol (in the Transnistrian enclave of the Republic of Moldova) have visited Washington DC from 19 to 25 July, attending the...
Americans honoring fallen soldier: Staff Sgt. Beale's return home
July 15, 2009Killed in action. The body of Staff Sergeant First Class John C. Beale was returned to Falcon Field in Peachtree City, Georgia, just south of Atlanta, on June 11, 2009. The Henry County Police Department escorted the procession to the funeral home in...
US Immigration: New Traps for Aliens Filing for a Green Card
July 02, 2009By Attorneys Robert L. Reeves and Joseph I. Elias The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued a policy memorandum binding to its officers regarding unlawful presence. The memorandum is supposed to merely consolidate...
Medical Costs, Shortage of Doctors Fuel Midwife Trend
June 30, 2009Midwives are growing in popularity as the caregivers of choice among expectant mothers, with the number of midwife-attended births in the United States doubling between 1991 and 2008. Fueling the trend is the shortage of obstetricians and the low...
New Documentary Slams US Food Industry
June 30, 2009By Penelope Poulou Food Inc., a new documentary by director Robert Kenner, points an accusing finger at the U.S. food industry - a corporate monopoly, it says, that treats livestock inhumanely and grows genetically modified crops with fertilizers and...
Latest: Washington, DC Mayor Says 7 Killed in Metro Train Crash
June 23, 2009Authorities in Washington, D.C., say seven people are confirmed dead in Monday's crash of a subway train into another train. Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty said authorities are still treating the scene as a rescue operation that will go on all day...
UPDATED: 6 dead in worst ever Metro crash in Washington
June 22, 2009In the worst disaster in Metro history, at least six people died and 70 injured Monday when a Metro train crashed with another train during rush hour between the Takoma and Fort Totten stations near the Maryland and District of Columbia border. More...
Update: Washington metro trains collide, killing 4, wounding 70
June 22, 2009One Metro transit train smashed into the rear of another at the height of Washington's Monday evening rush hour, killing at least four people and injuring scores of others as cars of the trailing train jackknifed into the air and fell atop the first,...