Posts Tagged ‘U.S.’

March 21 2010

Officials: U.S. missiles kill 4 in Pakistan

Suspected U.S. drones fire missiles at a house and car in a militant-dominated tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least four people, officials said.

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March 18 2010

U.S. schools in ‘category 5’ budget crisis

March 11: Long a symbol of the problems faced by public schools nationwide, the Kansas City, Mo., public school system plans to shutter almost half its schools. NBC’s John Yang reports.  (Nightly News)As state and local officials plan their school budgets for next fall, the question is: Will it be bad — or horribly bad? Msnbc.com’s Alex Johnson reports.


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March 18 2010

U.S. sees more multigenerational households

Driven partly by job losses, more households are bringing multiple generations together as “boomerang kids” flock home and people help care for grandchildren or aging parents.

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March 17 2010

U.S. missile strikes kill 9 militants in Pakistan

Two missile strikes by pilotless U.S. drone aircraft on Wednesday killed at least nine militants in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, a major al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary, intelligence officials and residents said.

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March 17 2010

U.S. missile strikes kill 6 militants in Pakistan

Two missile strikes by pilotless U.S. drone aircraft on Wednesday killed at least six militants in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, a major al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary, intelligence officials and residents said.

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March 17 2010

Holder: Bin Laden won’t face U.S. trial

March 16: Attorney General Eric Holder took some pointed questions from House Republicans about whether the Obama administration would ever put bin Laden on trial. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.  (Nightly News)Attorney General Eric Holder tells Congress that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive.


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March 16 2010

FBI: No evidence U.S. victims targeted

Members of the Mexican Federal Police guard a burned SUV found on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, which is apparently linked to the attack on U.S. consular staff the past weekend.The FBI says the slayings in Mexico of three people with ties to the U.S. consulate may have been committed by drug cartel hit men who targeted the wrong party.


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March 16 2010

U.S., Israel to try to heal worst rift in years

Palestinian stone-throwers gesture toward Israeli troops during clashes near the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz on Tuesday. A dispute over new Jewish homes in a traditionally Arab part of Jerusalem quickly became a test of U.S. and Israeli commitment to peace talks and one another.


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March 16 2010

Clinton: U.S. and Israel not in crisis

Border policemen arrest a Palestinian protester during clashes at the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem on Tuesday.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that Israel must prove it is committed to the peace process but brushed aside suggestions that U.S.-Israeli relations are in crisis.


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March 16 2010

Forecast: Flood risk for third of U.S.

The National Weather Service produced this map of the risk of flooding this spring.More than a third of the contiguous United States faces a high or above average flood risk this spring, the National Weather Service says.


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