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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page The US News.com http://www.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/10/id/420d9e49bcaa69d0/ en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:06:13 -0400 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:06:13 -0400 30 The US government is concerned a Supreme Court ruling about the legal rights of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, could see suspected terrorists walking free. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378410/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:16:17 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378410/cs/1/ People magazine in the US has reported that Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but lives as a man due to hormone treatment, has given birth to a girl at an Oregon hospital. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378251/cs/1/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:40:11 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378251/cs/1/ US President George Bush has said he will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378250/cs/1/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:30:32 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378250/cs/1/ In the US, an internal State Department report suggests celebrities may have had their privacy breached by employees. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378247/cs/1/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:42 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378247/cs/1/ Rio de Janeiro, July 4 (Xinhua) Following the Colombian troops' dramatic rescue of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others from the country's largest leftist rebels group, Brazil has called for an end to armed struggle in Latin America. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378336/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:00:05 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378336/cs/1/ The White House says before the end of the year it hopes to get a global agreement on climate change that will include emerging economies like India and China, a point being insisted upon by US President George Bush. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378277/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:00:14 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378277/cs/1/ Washington, July 4 : Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has been branded a "flip-flopper" by the rival Republican Party in the context of the timetable withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378453/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:26 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378453/cs/1/ New York, July 4 : After weeks of refusing to retract its false report that Angelina Jolie had given birth to her twins, Entertainment Tonight is finally owning up to the fact that they got it wrong. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378449/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:15 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378449/cs/1/ New York, July 4 : Teen sensation Miley Cyrus is determined to be the next Madonna - citing the Queen of Pop as her ultimate inspiration. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378447/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:10 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378447/cs/1/ Melbourne, July 4 : More and more Australian teenagers are adopting American accents as a prestige model, says a linguistic expert. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378439/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:01:30 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378439/cs/1/ Washington, July 4 : Crude oil skyrocketed to 145 dollars a barrel and Americans are feeling the pinch like never before. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378412/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:06 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378412/cs/1/ Washington, July 4 : A new research into the creation of Kankakee Sand Islands of Northwest Indiana is lending support to evidence that the first humans to settle the Americas came from Europe, a discovery that overturns a previous theory that hypothesized that the Americans had come from Asia. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378337/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:00:10 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378337/cs/1/ Islamabad, July 4 : Pakistan Foreign Office has strongly reacted to top US military man Mike Mullen's recent statement regarding the US having a right to strike targets inside Pakistani territory. FO spokesman said in Islamabad that no body had the right to take action inside Pakistan in the war on terror. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378278/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:00:23 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378278/cs/1/ Islamabad, July 3 (Xinhua) Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Shah Qureshi would visit the UN headquarters in New York Tuesday for consultations with the world body for probe into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, an official said Thursday. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378158/cs/1/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:17 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378158/cs/1/ Warsaw, July 3 (RIA Novosti) Poland and the US have reached an agreement on the deployment of an American missile base in Poland, a Polish TV channel reported. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378150/cs/1/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:04:50 -0400 The US News.com http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/378150/cs/1/ WHITE HOUSE (AP) - The White House says it's sure none of us wants dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay walking American streets. But the White House says that could happen after the recent Supreme ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965195/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:54:07 -0400 WAFB 9 http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965195/ "America" (My Country 'tis of Thee) found tucked behind a picture Picture sells for $10 at flea market; manuscript reportedly worth thousands "America" first played in public on Ju... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15966064/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:42:03 -0400 CNN http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15966064/ NEW YORK (AP) ― The federal government is considering reopening the Statue of Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terror attacks.The National Park Service sent out a request ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15966120/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:22:20 -0400 WCBSTV http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15966120/ LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AP) -- The American ambassador to Colombia said U.S. and Colombian forces cooperated closely on a daring hostage rescue mission. Three U.S. military contractors were ca... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965139/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:42:45 -0400 KXAN 36 http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965139/ BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia said its military has rescued former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three U.S. military contractors and 11 other hostages from leftist rebels. Defense Mini... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965197/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:42:40 -0400 KXAN 36 http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965197/ DEARBORN, Mich. -- It's a salute to our country at Greenfield Village.Greenfield Village's 16th annual Salute to America kicked off Wednesday and lasts through Saturday.The nightly event features plen... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965140/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:34:46 -0400 Local 4 http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965140/ Global market research firm Synovate recently tackled a range of beauty issues in a global survey of over 7,000 people in nine countries, including 500 people in the United States. The survey asked pe... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965079/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:22:12 -0400 PR Web http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965079/ Just in time for Independence Day, Singer-Songwriter Joe Colledge Partners with eMail Our Military to Offer Troops a Free Download of His Single "American Dream". Miami Lakes, FL ( http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15964984/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:21:26 -0400 PR Web http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15964984/ Melrose Jewelers today announced the top 5 Rolex President Watch Models demanded in America on its website MelroseJewelers.com in Q1 2008. 1) Mens Platinum Rolex Day Date President (Double Quickset 18... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965141/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:22:05 -0400 PR Web http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965141/ The American executive and legislative branches of government are in dire need of an aggressive purge in the form of a no-confidence referendum. Unfortunately, the American people have no such device ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965194/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:14:39 -0400 Pravda http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965194/ MANILA, Philippines -- Leftwing activists are marking Filipino-American Friendship Day with a protest at the US Embassy to denounce the alleged rape of a Filipino woman in Japan and the continuing pre... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965117/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:39:32 -0400 Inquirer http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15965117/ Americans Patrick O'Hea and Michael Sivigny lost their heats in Thursday's first round of the Diamond Challenge Sculls, one of the most prestigious events at the Henley Royal Regatta.O'Hea, competing ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15963504/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:55:59 -0400 Examiner http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15963504/ a name="Search" content="yes"> a name="Date" content="20080703"> a name="Keywords" content="CyberCast News Service"> a name="Topic" content="none"> a name="Generator" content="Page Builder 6.8... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15963453/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:51:26 -0400 CNS News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15963453/ College student charged with felony for trying to sell vote on eBay Max P. Sanders told authorities posting was a joke Prosecutors used 1893 state law to charge Sanders with bribery http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15963888/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:51:15 -0400 CNN http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15963888/ PRWEB ) July 4, 2008 -- Wholesale Furniture Brokers gives furniture manufactures an opportunity to connect their products to a wide range of buyers. Small retailers, interior designers, and individual... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15963244/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:41:35 -0400 PR Web http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15963244/ America has tightened security along its border with Canada, but some security experts say the 4,000-mile northern passage remains full of holes — an inviting “open door” to terroris... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15963501/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:14 -0400 Fox News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15963501/ Living in Police, Poland, Dawid Pietrek also dreamed of becoming an American citizen when he set out on a grand adventure after winning the U.S. government's green card lottery in 2005. "He conside... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960931/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:03:35 -0400 Chicago Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960931/ DALLAS - Many more job cuts, likely totalling more than 6,000, are likely at American Airlines as the biggest airline in the United States hunkers down and tries to survive record high fuel costs. ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960569/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:58:25 -0400 C News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960569/ Ten thousand smelly sneakers were cause for celebration in Washington July 2. They set a world record for the longest chain of shoes, while teaching kids about recycling. A national children's magaz... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960660/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:45:26 -0400 VOA http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960660/ WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is locked in an internal debate over whether to present Congress with proposed legislation that would allow suspected terrorists to be held in the United States ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960994/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:45:12 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960994/ Indiana University product David Neville made the U.S. Olympic track and field team Thursday night by finishing third in the 400 meters at the Trials in Eugene, Ore. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960932/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:28:31 -0400 Courier-Journal http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960932/ President Bush, left, praised the military medical staff's work and  said that the new Walter Reed complex would benefit from the work done by the Dole-Shalala woulded warriors commission. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15961174/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:31:14 -0400 MSNBC http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15961174/ Sgt. Brian Bernardi of the Louisville Metro Police Department talks about the department's new crime tip text messaging system at the tip center in Louisville http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15962219/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:29:39 -0400 USA Today http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15962219/ HAMMONDSPORT, N.Y. (AP) — On a steamy Fourth of July evening a century ago, a wood-and-fabric biplane lifted off from Stony Brook Farm and stayed airborne for almost a mile in a stupendous triump... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15962220/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:29:37 -0400 USA Today http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15962220/ A reader's curiosity about where that oil ends up - and who profits from its sale - inspired one of three questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to rea... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960576/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:23:13 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960576/ DALLAS (AP) - Former TWA flight attendants had to fight for jobs after American Airlines bought their carrier. Now they're first in line to be laid off as American and American Eagle cut 6,800 jobs. ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960929/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:59:02 -0400 ABC 7 http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960929/ PM Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani will meet President Bush on July 28 to `discuss a broad range of issues of mutual interest and regional and international matters of common interest... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960672/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:56:28 -0400 IRNA http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960672/ SALT LAKE CITY - Starting next month, it will be "TGIT" for Utah state employees. As in: "Thank God It's Thursday." In a yearlong experiment aimed at reducing the state's energy costs and commuters... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15962297/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:30:47 -0400 Newsday http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15962297/ Some 200 opposition supporters mobbed the US Embassy in Zimbabwe, seeking refuge amid new reports of violence against dissenters. Activists received good news, however, as two women who led peaceful ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960930/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:34:03 -0400 West Australian http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960930/ BIG SUR, California (AP) -- Piles of charred rubble smoldered near California's scenic coastal highway Thursday as a ferocious wildfire descended on the storied tourist town of Big Sur, destroying vac... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960574/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:50:39 -0400 CNN http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960574/ It seems the days of robust, flag-waving patriotism seen after the Sept. 11 attacks are gone. And arguably in its place, a general pessimism about our country has set in: An Associated Press-Ipsos pol... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15961000/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:51:25 -0400 The Detroit News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15961000/ WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of last month's Supreme Court ruling about detainees' leg... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960997/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:35:40 -0400 Fox News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960997/ WASHINGTON (AP) - The 32nd president stares resolutely from his wheelchair, cast in the kind of immortal bronze reserved for the leaders we remember as distant paragons of national virtue. Yet somethi... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960933/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:33:08 -0400 Examiner http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960933/ In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee, left, walks in a fenced-in exercise area as a guard patrols on the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp 5, at Guantanamo B... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960865/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:32:52 -0400 ABC News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15960865/ Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama, rival Hillary Clinton hold first joint rally The show of unity -- in a town called Unity -- closes a chapter on Democrat race As Democrats put aside their d... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958923/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:28:05 -0400 CNN http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958923/ View related video CHICAGO -- As the hunt wound down for the man suspected in a killing spree that left eight people dead in two states, a disheveled Nicholas T. Sheley walked calmly into a Subway re... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958910/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:31:38 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958910/ DALLAS -- American Airlines says it could cut 900 flight attendant jobs as it reduces flights to cope with record high fuel costs. The Fort Worth-based airline expects to reduce jobs for pilots and me... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15957985/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:37:44 -0400 The China Post http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15957985/ OMAHA, Neb. -- A group of Boy Scouts who were at a camp hit by a deadly tornado will get to meet President George W. Bush in Washington at the end of the month.The Boy Scouts of America Mid-America Co... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958515/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:09:04 -0400 KETV 7 http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958515/ According the the Florida Department of State, the number of registered Democrats increased by about 130,000 while registered Republicans went up by 53,000, from last December to April. gains for the ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958924/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:28:06 -0400 CNN http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958924/ WASHINGTON: President George W Bush hailed the release of hostages, three of them US nationals, from Marxist FARC rebels in Colombia, even as the White House said the operation had no "connection" wit... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958516/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:32:43 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958516/ BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister plans trips to Europe and the Persian Gulf this month, apparently hoping improved security at home will pay dividends in greater international support -- including from... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15959735/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:30:54 -0400 Newsday http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15959735/ star Jason Biggs and his new bride are planning a proper ceremony in Napa Valley, California in August - after exchanging vows in a courthouse in April. The actor surprised family and friends when he... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958438/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:55:16 -0400 Inside Baltimore http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958438/ GOP Sen. John Warner asks for report on speed limit's link to gas saving, fuel prices Congress set 55 mph limit in 1974; it was repealed in 1995 Warner says limit saved 167,000 barrels of oil a day, l... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15959138/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:50:44 -0400 CNN http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15959138/ Although not the original Bozo, Harmon played the clown in countless appearances Larry Harmon died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83 As an entrepreneur, Harmon licensed the character to ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958424/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:50:42 -0400 CNN http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958424/ Jeannine Aversa, The Associated Press July 3, 2008 - 6:10 p.m. WASHINGTON - Wall Street companies sharply scaled back their borrowing from the U.S. Federal Reserve's emergency lending program over th... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958073/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:22 -0400 Canadian Business http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958073/ BILOXI, Miss. - Roger Wicker leaned up against the rails of the oyster schooner Mike Sekul, enjoying the slight Mississippi Sound breeze and some scrumptious, bone-sucking ribs with his son McDaniel.T... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958624/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:31:20 -0400 MSNBC http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958624/ SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ― It's gone to recovery mode, searching for the body of a man that jumped in the American River from one of the local bridges near Discovery Park. Several people saw him jum... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958484/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:46:42 -0400 UPN 31 http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958484/ The solvent that was dumped in the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton on Wednesday night was naphtha, a petroleum-based substance used in paint thinners, officials said Thursday. http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958444/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:32:44 -0400 CBC News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15958444/ Thanks to America's "imperialist" determination to see a project (Peligre Hydroelectric Dam) completed and combined with Duvalier's infrastructure initiatives, you have a success story that ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952851/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:48:36 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952851/ (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)Attorney Gary Udashen, left, and The Innocence Project board of director member John Stickels, right, look on as DNA exonoree Patrick Waller, reacts to the announcement in cou... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955397/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:29:57 -0400 The Examiner http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955397/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JESUIT BEND, La. -- Louisiana authorities say three people are being treated for burns after a steam accident at a ConocoPhillips Co. refinery. Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Of... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15954470/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:20:58 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15954470/ John McCain's campaign has been "kind of adrift," Ed Rollins says Insiders say severe campaign structural problems caused series of missteps Bush campaign veteran Steve Schmidt to take over ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15954533/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:15:04 -0400 CNN http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15954533/ See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when Interactive To... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952522/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:12:32 -0400 Finfacts http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952522/ July 3, 2008 - "America the Beautiful" didn't start out as an American anthem. It was first a poem written in 1893 by a teacher, Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), after a visit to Pike's Peak in Colora... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953390/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:09:45 -0400 NPR http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953390/ "Have you done a column on Gallup/Rasmussen trackers vs. traditional polls, including Gallup, where the data is different?" I got that question from a valued reader recently and have been asked essent... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953827/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:20:25 -0400 MSNBC http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953827/ NEW YORK – A hedge fund cheat who tried to fake his own death and spent nearly a month as a fugitive told a judge Thursday that he really did try to commit suicide while on the run, saying he th... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955054/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:51:46 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955054/ WASHINGTON – An internal State Department investigative report suggests that employees may have been snooping on the passport records of celebrities far more than previously disclosed. It urges ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955050/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:51:50 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955050/ MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Two large pharmaceutical companies said Thursday they will appeal a jury verdict ordering them to pay more than $114 million for overcharging the state's Medicaid program for ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955059/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:51:39 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955059/ WASHINGTON D.C. -- Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) praised President Bush's signature of the new GI Bill for the 21st Century. According to a VFW press release, the bill was signed into law to expa... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953543/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:46:08 -0400 ABC 7 http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953543/ inspector general's report released on Thursday.The department has not established the proper policies, procedures and disciplinary actions to prevent employees and contractors, as well as those in ot... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15954577/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:39:57 -0400 GovExec http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15954577/ Moussaoui is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring with al-Qaeda in the terrorist attacks. He says his plea should be thrown out because he was not allowed to see classified evid... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955060/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:51:37 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955060/ NEW YORK – He's gone from hot-dog top dog to underdog. Renowned competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi is aiming to chomp his way back to the top of the annual Fourth of July hot dog eating compe... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955061/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:51:35 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955061/ Barack Obama , who hopes to find votes as well as fireworks in places that blue-state Democrats often bypass in presidential elections.During the long holiday weekend, Obama is making an All-American ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953824/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:20:28 -0400 MSNBC http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953824/ ANKARA - Turkey has opened to South American market, economy bureaucrats said on Tuesday. Turkey signed a preferential trade agreement with Mercosur, the common market of South America, in a summit in... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952469/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:54:42 -0400 Turkish Press http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952469/ Patrick Waller sobs in court as his conviction is overturned Four other Dallas County men cleared by DNA attend hearing The county leads the nation in DNA exonerations, with 19 Waller spent 15 years i... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952895/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:36:46 -0400 CNN http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952895/ WASHINGTON – An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save gasoline and, in turn possibly ease fuel prices. ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955055/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:51:44 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955055/ SEATTLE – A woman who leaped from a bridge into a chilly river wearing handcuffs as she worked as a police informant during an attempted drug bust was captured early Thursday, two days after van... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955058/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:51:40 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955058/ New York City construction codes -- revamped for the first time in four decades -- went into effect earlier this week and will increase penalties for some safety violations at building sites The city... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952886/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:09:13 -0400 Insurance Journal http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952886/ In these days of long and repeated warfront tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than 10% of the male recruits who are married with one or more children, or are financially responsible for a dependent,... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15956079/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:18:14 -0400 USA Today http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15956079/ John McCain are expanding the campaign battlefield. Paradoxically, that may be the first step toward taming the partisan warfare in Washington that has blocked progress on the country's most pressing ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953825/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:20:30 -0400 MSNBC http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953825/ An explosive wildfire ravaged the hillsides above this scenic coastal community Thursday, leaving the popular tourist region mostly deserted ahead of the holiday weekend.Still, some people defied orde... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955398/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:29:58 -0400 The Examiner http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955398/ Mike Sachoff - Thu, 07/03/2008 - 11:03am. 15% use dialup Over half (55%) of all adult Americans now have a high-speed Internet connection at home, according to a new survey by the Pew Internet & A... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952781/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:59:48 -0400 Web Pro News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952781/ Hillary Clinton has removed all negative ads about her former rival for the Democratic presidential ticket Barack Obama from her campaign website and from her page on a popular video-sharing websit... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955568/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:32:22 -0400 Times of India http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955568/ Nakeva Narcisse holds her daughter Asanta Mackey, 5, who has a persistent cough, in their trailer in the FEMA Diamond trailer park in Port Sulphur, La., May 31. Doctors fear tens of thousands of child... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15956078/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:18:12 -0400 USA Today http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15956078/ NEW YORK – The former head of Refco Inc., blamed for the collapse of one of the world's largest commodities brokerages, was sentenced to 16 years in prison Thursday by a judge who decried the &#... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953291/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:51:47 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953291/ PHILADELPHIA: A foundation created by filmmaker Steven Spielberg is giving USD 1 million to the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. The money from the Righteous Persons ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955569/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:32:21 -0400 Times of India http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955569/ New CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll covers likability, sticking to opinions Poll says 63 percent like Obama, compared to 59 percent who like McCain 61 percent say McCain has changed his mind for polit... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15954532/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:15:06 -0400 CNN http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15954532/ WEATHERFORD (TEXAS): A man was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison for sexually assaulting three teenage girls over two years. Jurors sentenced James Kevin Pope guilty and handed over ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955571/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:32:18 -0400 Times of India http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955571/ said earlier this week that his attendance at the Olympics will depend on the outcome of these talks. However, Bush has previously said that he would go to the Olympics to support American athletes, ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952567/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:51:18 -0400 Wikinews http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15952567/ Barack Obama now are pushing toward the center to win them over.Meet the "mushy middle," a complex chunk of people likely to decide the presidential election but difficult to reach and hard to please.... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953829/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:20:22 -0400 MSNBC http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953829/ US Continental Airlines and two of its employees are to stand trial for manslaughter over the crash of an Air France Concorde airliner in 2000 that killed 113 people, officials said on Thursday. ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955572/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:32:17 -0400 Times of India http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15955572/ Carhops Breanna Ramroop of St. Paul, left, and Kalen Wilson of Maplewood ply the parking lot of the Twin Cities' first Sonic fast food restaurant on Suburban Avenue in St. Paul. (Pioneer Press photos:... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953389/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:54:59 -0400 Pioneer Press http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953389/ AUSTIN (AP) — A former science curriculum director for the Texas Education Agency has filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was illegally fired for forwarding an e-mail about a speaker who was cri... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15956080/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:18:15 -0400 USA Today http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15956080/ It could turn out to be one of the most significant comments of the 2008 campaign — but coming just ahead of a holiday weekend, it isn't getting much notice.Upon his return from a visit to Israel an... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953826/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:20:26 -0400 MSNBC http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953826/ A Suffolk County police officer has filed a lawsuit claiming that he was struck and injured by a bullet fragment that ricocheted off a metal target holder at the department's firearms range. The sui... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953065/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:59:55 -0400 Officer http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/15953065/