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Nancy Pelosi

Obama hails a 'historic' US victory on healthcare reform

Speaker Pelosi praised for her work to secure passage of the President's keynote legislation

Inside Americas

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.

weekend murders in Baltimore

The Wire, only real

Monday, 9 November 2009

In our job-swap, Mark Hughes witnesses Baltimore's drug wars

Nidal Hasan

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.

Soldiers and their families hold a candle-light vigil at Fort Hood on Friday

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

Miss California beauty pageant executive directors Keith Lewis (left) and Shanna Moakler, who sacked Carrie Prejean

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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