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/ 3 November 2010
California voters rejected a ballot measure on Tuesday that would have made it the first US state to legalise marijuana for recreational use.
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/ 3 November 2010
At Fox HQ, even something as domestic as a midterm election could well be an international terror attack.
US voters headed to the polls on Tuesday in key elections widely expected to hand Republicans control of the House of Representatives.
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/ 2 November 2010
A federal appeals court on Monday ordered the United States military’s ban on openly gay troops to remain in place.
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/ 2 November 2010
Officials tracked shipments of household goods from Yemen to Chicago in September and considered that the parcels might be a dry run for an attack.
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/ 2 November 2010
After a long and bitter campaign, Americans cast their votes on Tuesday in elections that could sweep Democrats from power in Congress.
Unscheduled talks seen as a bid to address US concerns.
BP and several other major European companies are funding the mid-term election campaigns of right-wing Tea Party favourites.
By funding right-wing organisations, the mega-rich Koch brothers have duped millions into supporting big business at their expense.
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/ 1 November 2010
Counterterrorism officials warned that al-Qaeda has exposed a blind spot in aviation security by successfully smuggling bombs on to cargo planes.
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/ 1 November 2010
Two years ago he was hailed as a saviour; now his party is expecting a pasting in the polls. Can Obama win back America?
Yemeni forces on Saturday arrested a woman believed to be involved in sending explosive packages bound for the United States.
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/ 31 October 2010
Tea Party activists approach the Constitution the same fundamentalist way they approach the Bible: literally.
An attempted parcel bomb plot originating in Yemen will further heighten security concerns about the unstable Arab state.
The United States searched on Saturday for the culprits behind a plot to bomb Jewish targets in Chicago.
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/ 30 October 2010
The writer is angry, as his new book makes clear. His rage is leavened with the wit that has won him friends on both sides of the political divide.
Barack Obama’s foes will rejoice if he gets thumped in mid-term congressional elections, but it may be premature to prepare his political obituary.
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/ 26 October 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denounced Monday lingering sex crime accusations against him as "false".
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/ 26 October 2010
<i>Newsweek</i> owner Sidney Harman pulls out of merger with Tina Brown’s news site after dispute over who would be "the decider".
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/ 25 October 2010
Canadian captive Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to all five terrorism charges against him in the US war-crimes tribunal at Guantánamo Bay.
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/ 25 October 2010
Washington on Sunday came under increasing pressure to investigate allegations in the leaked Iraq war documents published by WikiLeaks.
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/ 25 October 2010
The US electorate’s mistake was to believe that transformation was something you could impart to a higher power.
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/ 24 October 2010
The UN has called on Barack Obama to order a full investigation of US forces’ involvement in human rights abuses in Iraq.
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/ 24 October 2010
President Barack Obama, dashing through the US West to campaign for endangered Democrats, proved he still has plenty of star power.
WikiLeaks released nearly 400 000 classified US files on the Iraq war on Friday, some detailing gruesome cases of prisoner abuse.
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/ 23 October 2010
Colombian artist Fernando Botero is happy with the intimate attention New Yorkers and tourists pay to his giant bronze statue of a naked Adam.
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/ 23 October 2010
The world’s first commercial passenger spaceship moved a step closer to take-off on Friday, as tycoon Richard Branson unveiled a new runway.
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/ 22 October 2010
Google said its "Street View" cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed.
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/ 20 October 2010
A US judge has upheld an order stopping the US military from barring openly gay people serving in its ranks.
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/ 19 October 2010
Goldman Sachs Group, the dominant US investment bank, said quarterly profit fell by more than a third.
Everyone knows cutting housing benefits just takes us down the route to US-style ghettos
What gets a Tea Party activist going? A good way of answering that is to browse the stalls at a Tea Party rally.