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Hurricane Ida aims for Gulf of Mexico oil fields
Monday, 9 November 2009
Hurricane Ida roared through the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, where important oil fields are located, after triggering floods and mudslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.
The Wire, only real
Monday, 9 November 2009
In our job-swap, Mark Hughes witnesses Baltimore's drug wars
Don't target Muslims, troops told
Monday, 9 November 2009
US Army chief of staff hits back in wake of Fort Hood massacre that left 13 dead
House passes sweeping US healthcare overhaul
Sunday, 8 November 2009
President Obama's $1 trillion reform bill includes the biggest health policy changes in four decades.
US likely to dispatch 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan
Sunday, 8 November 2009
The US administration is likely announce the dispatch of at least 30,000 troops to Afghanistan – while in Britain there are increasing calls for a withdrawal from the war in the face of a rising death toll.
US army killer taken off ventilator
Sunday, 8 November 2009
US Army officials say the man who killed 13 people during a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive care.
Army killer 'had time to reload repeatedly'
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Details are emerging of the shooting that left 13 dead and more than 30 wounded at an army base in Texas
British man shot dead in Amarillo
Sunday, 8 November 2009
A British father shot dead on a road trip through the United States after stopping in Amarillo because he loved the cult song was "just in the wrong place, at the wrong time", his family said.
The city that went to war on advertising
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Sao Paulo has banned billboards, and residents are using a hotline set up by the Mayor to report any and all offenders
She was the moral majority pin-up. And then someone saw one of her old movies
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Carrie Prejean condemned gay marriage on the Miss USA stage, losing her the crown, but endearing her to conservative America
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