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25 May 2012 - 0 - 7389
Most Americans, no matter what their political party, believe there is too much money in politics and reject the idea that people should be allowed to spend what they want, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Thursday.
23 May 2012 - 0 - 6008
The National Security Agency is trying to expand U.S. cyber expertise needed for secret intelligence operations against adversaries on computer networks through a new cyber-ops program at selected universities.
22 May 2012 - 0 - 6233
The US Senate has approved a bill to tighten sanctions against Iran in a bid to force Tehran to abandon its nuclear programme.
21 May 2012 - 0 - 5721
NATO will hand over the lead role in combat operations to Afghan forces across the country by mid-2013, alliance leaders said on Sunday as they charted a path out of a war that has lost public support and strained budgets in Western nations.
18 May 2012 - 0 - 4974
For the first time, there are more black, Hispanic and other minority babies being born in the United States than white babies, according to government data released on Thursday that confirm a long-growing trend.
17 May 2012 - 0 - 1310
Defense lawyers want to force a former CIA official who supervised what they called torture of al Qaeda captives to testify in the war crimes tribunal for five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks.
16 May 2012 - 0 - 5974
President Barack Obama threatened on Tuesday to veto a defense policy bill in the House of Representatives that would authorize higher Pentagon spending and tie his hands on national security issues from nuclear arms reductions to handling war detainees.
15 May 2012 - 0 - 5845
Michelle Obama offered a pep talk on Monday to U.S. athletes who will be competing at the 2012 London Olympics while announcing a nationwide program to get more American children active.
14 May 2012 - 0 - 4908
Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show "drooling over firearms," as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, framed battalion patches from his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, a John Wayne poster, and an 1861 Springfield rifle from an ancestor who fought in the Civil War.
07 May 2012 - 0 - 4897
The controller of the Empire State Building has offered investors the opportunity to sell some of their shares and relieve some of the expected tax burden if a proposed initial public offering is approved before the end of the year, according to a federal filing on Tuesday.
03 May 2012 - 0 - 5971
A gunman shot and killed four people including a toddler girl in a Phoenix suburb on Wednesday afternoon before apparently committing suicide, police said.
30 Apr 2012 - 0 - 5459
It was not just U.S. Democratic voters who were looking forward to "hope and change" when Barack Obama became the 44th U.S. president.
19 Apr 2012 - 0 - 5394
The 2012 presidential election is more than six months away, but here is what we know so far: It is going to be close, it is going to be nasty, and the outcome could turn on a series of unpredictable events.
18 Apr 2012 - 0 - 5584
The space shuttle Discovery made its final voyage on Tuesday: a piggyback jet ride to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum annex in Virginia.
18 Apr 2012 - 0 - 5877
Cutting government programs is favored as the way to reduce the budget deficit by more than twice as many Americans as those who favor raising taxes, said a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
18 Apr 2012 - 0 - 5978
The Pentagon says it is making progress in developing weapons for its newest battleground - cyberspace - but still faces funding, technology and policy challenges.
18 Apr 2012 - 0 - 5924
Industrial output was flat for a second straight month in March, held back by a drop in manufacturing, according to a Federal Reserve report on Tuesday that suggested a cooling in factory activity.
18 Apr 2012 - 0 - 5545
A welder's torch ignited a small fire on the roof of a building at a nuclear research laboratory in Idaho on Monday, prompting an evacuation, but no one was hurt and no radioactive material was involved, lab officials said.
29 Apr 2010 - 0 - 6119
28 Apr 2010 - 0 - 6067
27 Apr 2010 - 0 - 6908
26 Apr 2010 - 0 - 6364
20 Apr 2010 - 0 - 5457
17 Apr 2010 - 0 - 5375
16 Apr 2010 - 0 - 5363
11 Apr 2010 - 0 - 6565
The bodies of four missing miners have been found in West Virginia, taking the death toll to 29 and making it US coal mining's worst accident in 40 years. Difficult conditions had hampered rescuers in their search for survivors after Monday's underground explosion at the Upper Big Branch Upper mine.
08 Apr 2010 - 0 - 6645
A man has been detained after he tried to set fire to his shoes on a US flight, reports say. The man was subdued on United flight 663 from Washington Reagan airport to Denver, ABC news reported.
06 Apr 2010 - 0 - 6347
The investigative organization WikiLeaks released military video of what it describes as three incidents of an "indiscriminate slaying" by U.S. forces near Baghdad on July 12, 2007..VIDEO
02 Apr 2010 - 0 - 6221
The United States is reportedly planning to discontinue its policy of nationality based security checks of America bound travellers and would now select passengers for special scrutiny at airports on possible matches to intelligence information, including physical descriptions or a particular travel pattern.
29 Mar 2010 - 0 - 1903
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