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U.S. launches legal action to reignite lumber war with CanadaThe United States re-ignited the softwood lumber dispute Tuesday by launching a legal challenge that targets British Columbia's lumber industry.
The U.S. claims B.C. has been subsidizing lumber companies here by charging minimal stumpage rates for timb
Family hit with tax for dead babyA U.S. family is baffled after they were mailed a $50 "death tax" bill to cover costs associated with their deceased newborn daughter.
Congresswoman no longer needs ventilator
Doctors have removed the breathing tube of U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, another step on her road to recovery after being one of 19 people shot last weekend at a Tucson, Ariz., grocery store.
Not a friend, not a rival: Clinton view of ChinaDays before China's president visits the United States, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday delivered Washington's laundry list of beefs with Beijing, but said the U.S. has no intention of shrinking from a policy of engagement with the world's most
Woman's candy egg seized at border
A cross-border kerfuffle over a popular chocolate treat nearly cost a Winnipeg woman a $300 fine and saddled her with a bureaucratic headache.
Congresswoman critical after shooting
At least five people are dead and a U.S. congresswoman is fighting for her life after a gunman opened fire while she was holding a public event outside a Tucson grocery store, officials say.
With the holidays fast approaching — and scores of expected tourists flooding Las Vegas for events — Metro Police want the public's help reporting suspicious activity
Woman arrested at ABIA after refusing enhanced pat downClaire Hirschkind, 56, who says she is a rape victim and who has a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, says her constitutional rights were violated. She says she never broke any laws. But the Transportation Security Administration disagrees.
Richard Holbrooke died at age 69
President Obama's emissary to Afghanistan and Pakistan began his career as a junior Foreign Service officer during the Vietnam War.
Nixon library to release 265 hours of White House tapes
The Richard Nixon Presidential Library will open a trove of records at the facility and online Thursday, including 265 hours of White House tapes, officials said.
The library, in Yorba Linda, California, will also open more than 140,000 pages of presiden
In Obama Tax Plan, a Boost for Jobs
A year ago, President Obama and the Democrats made the mistake of assuming that an economic recovery was under way. This week’s deal to extend the Bush tax cuts shows that the White House’s top priority is avoiding the same mistake again — even if it has
U.S. regrets leak of documents: Clinton
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said her government "deeply regrets" the disclosure of information intended to be confidential in hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. State Department documents released by website WikiLeaks.
The "Progressive Hunter"Jailhouse Confession: How the right-wing media and Glenn Beck's chalkboard drove Byron Williams to plot assassination
NYC anti-gay attacks denouncedGang members accused of abducting and brutalizing two teenage boys and a man remained in custody in New York City on Sunday, awaiting arraignment, while city leaders vowed not to tolerate what they're calling vicious hate crimes.
Police tape marks the ab
Is America becoming a third world nation?...the scope of the problem came into focus for him one day last year when he read, in the same newspaper, that China was launching a new 240-mile-an-hour high-speed train, and then an article about city leaders in Pittsburgh considering a tax on universi
New U.S. currency designs coloured very CanadianIf recently released design ideas for an update to the U.S. greenback are any indication, it appears Americans are catching on to what Canadians have known for decades - coloured bills beat the bland.
Ceremonies mark ninth anniversary of 9-11
U.S. President Barack Obama said Americans must "stay true to who we are" to pay tribute to the thousands who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, an anniversary that was marked Saturday in sombre ceremonies in New York, Pennsylvania and at
9/11 anniversary a time for unity: Obama
The anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States is a time for Americans to remember they are "one nation under God" — no matter what that God is called, U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday.
Obama defends economic initiatives
President Obama said Friday that if the midterm elections become a referendum on which political party has the most effective agenda to improve the economy, rather than a decision on its current state, "the Democrats will do very well."
U.S. military's gay policy unconstitutional: judge
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge said she will issue an order to halt the military's policy requiring gay members not to reveal their sexual orientation, declaring it unconstitutional because it violates U.S. guarantees of free speech and other rights.
Reported oil rig explosion in Gulf of MexicoThere has been a reported explosion at an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday morning.
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said a commercial helicopter company reported the blast at about 9:30 a.m. CDT.
Obama to end combat in Iraq, thank U.S. troops
In a prime-time address Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama was to formally end combat missions in Iraq and thank the men and women who served there as America's attention turns further to the country where more than 150 Canadian soldiers have died in th
The US Government Can Use GPS to Track Your MovesGovernment agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectatio
DEA wants to hire Ebonics translators
"DEA's position is, it's a language form we have a need for," Sanders said. "I think it's a language form that DEA recognizes a need to have someone versed in to conduct investigations."
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