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Bank of America Corp. said Wednesday it has repaid the entire $45 billion it owed U.S. taxpayers as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah's school, it was a dress-code violation worthy of a suspension.
Just a year after this one-time Confederate state helped elect a black man president, Democrats are desperately trying to hang onto the governorship.
They became good buddies during the war, the young American soldier and his invaluable Iraqi translator, an easygoing guy who could spot dangers in the shadows and calm jittery nerves in the streets.
When many Americans who served or worked in Iraq came home, they left behind Iraqi friends whose lives were at risk because of their U.S. connections. Some soldiers and others, frustrated with the government efforts to help the Iraqis, embarked on their own rescue missions. Here are two of their stories:
Her mansion in Iraq was bombed, her medical career and future in her beloved country dashed the day she found a white envelope on her car windshield. Inside was a single bullet. Wassan Yassin was marked for death.
On one of his first days in America, Hussein Albayati visited the Statue of Liberty.
While some were moved to tears by the president's soaring rhetoric, others were moved not at all. Where some saw a new clarity, others saw more vagueness. And while some praised him for reaching out to Republicans, there were those who felt he was overreaching in some ways and not reaching far enough in others.
A federal judge said Monday he needs more information before he can decide whether to approve a $33 million settlement between Bank of America Corp. and the Securities and Exchange Commission over executive bonuses.
It was a scenario U.S. law enforcement had long feared: A fragmentation grenade from Mexico's bloody drug war tossed into a public place.
A judge has ordered a hearing on a $33 million proposed settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America Corp. over executive bonuses.
The Touro Synagogue was barely 25 years old when George Washington offered a vision of religious tolerance in a letter he sent its congregants.
Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.
For generations, General Motors fueled America's love affair with the automobile, building cars that defined their owners' status in life and the industrial might of the nation. But less than a year after entering its second century, the company that survived wars, international rivalry and even the Great Depression is being driven by the government into bankruptcy court.
The long-rumored e-book boom at last has arrived. But publishers still wait, and wait, for another supposed surge: Spanish-language titles.
Meet the forgotten housing crisis. While most attention has focused on the wave of foreclosures sweeping mostly middle-class, suburban Sunbelt neighborhoods from California to Florida, the nation's emptiest neighborhoods have remained concentrated in the same place for nearly a generation: the mostly minority, poor, urban neighborhoods of the American Rust Belt.
Former naval aviator Don Boecker isn't too proud to say he was scared out of his wits on that July 1965 day in Laos when he dangled by one arm from a helicopter while enemy soldiers took aim below.
President Barack Obama should specifically address disparities in black unemployment, foreclosures, education and health care, the National Urban League says in its annual "State of Black America" report.
A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.
The New York attorney general on Tuesday issued subpoenas to former Merrill Lynch chief executive John Thain and Bank of America's chief administrative officer, J. Steele Alphin, amid an investigation into bonuses Merrill paid executives just before being sold to Bank of America.
President-elect Barack Obama's plan to overhaul the nation's roads, bridges and transit systems has local officials clamoring for their share of those federal dollars despite concerns that creating millions of jobs won't deliver the intended jolt to the economy.
Bank of America Corp. said Thursday it expects to cut 30,000 to 35,000 jobs over the next three years, as it faces a deteriorating economic environment and tries to absorb Merrill Lynch & Co.
Apple-Pie Jihad by Judith Miller, City Journal 11 December 2009When the New York Police Department first issued a 90-page report in August 2007 asserting that what it called "homegrown radicalization" was destined to become a major terrorist threat, many of the nation's civil libertarians, self-proclaimed Muslim spokesmen, and even law …
Volunteers Place 16,000 Wreaths at ArlingtonMorrill Worcester, president of Maine-based Worcester Wreath Company, started the tradition in 1992, although the seeds for the idea had been planted 30 years earlier.
Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US borderThe wonderful sf writer Peter Watts was beaten without provocation and arrested by US border guards on Tuesday. I heard about it early Wednesday morning in London and called Cindy Cohn, the legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Arpaio's Land Deals May Violate Law - Phoenix News Story - KPHO PhoenixSheriff Joe Arpaio 'America's Toughest Sheriff' arrests political foes two county supervisors for failing to post property ownership on their financial disclosures. The problem is Arpaio has committed the same crime and is being ignored say some.
How an Earthquake Spawned Massive Immigration FraudNatural disasters aren't typically a cause for celebration. But after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Chinese immigrants were feeling some good vibrations.
The surge we need at homeSometimes, messes are so big that you just can't fix them. The best thing to do is to leave it alone, and walk away, before you make things worse.
Wake Up, America!"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within" – General Douglas MacArthur.
We wander in and out of the tangled and disturbed memories of our youth like children run through a Halloween corn maze. There is edgy anticipation that the journey will somehow continue with joy at the end....
Forced labour and rape, the new face of slavery in AmericaIn the Midwestern heartland, police are encountering a new social evil: trafficking, often involving women and children who are forced to work as prostitutes or unpaid labour; and the outcomes can be brutal.
50 Million of your family , friends, and neighbors, will go hungry this Thanksgiving . I know you already help. You make donations. You give to the Salvation Army bell ringer a quarter or two. Every year!
From time eternal people were used as slaves, one man owned another man. Then in 1776 a document was created stating that all men were created equal. Several years later a war was waged to make this dream a reality, and a few years later it was refought to insure it survival.
CAIR and North American Muslims; The TruthCAIR said it was a "big surprise" this Imam held radical beliefs. Yet CAIR has no problem inviting speakers to CAIR events who advocate attacking U.S. troops, like American cleric Zaid Shakir who said:
BBC News - President Obama replies to Cuba's dissident bloggerUS President Barack Obama has engaged in an unprecedented written exchange with a blogger in Cuba who is openly critical of its communist government. His comments came after prize-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez sent questions chiefly about US-Cuba relations.
Lawyer says Hasan was alert during first meeting - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! NewsThis Muslim trained non American leader is already looking for excuses for his brothers as he called them. If this had been a Christian to Muslim's talk of hate crimes and death would be in the news.
Day of HonorOn Memorial Day, 2009, I already knew that I would be writing an article in honor of Veterans, and I knew exactly what would be my focus.
Junior's 1st paycheck: $500 at birth? -Imagine a world in which every baby receives a trust fund at birth. It might sound like a fairy tale, but being born into money -- or at least into a $500 savings account -- could soon become a reality for all children born in the United States. The best new baby gear
America's gun outrage: 276 people killed or wounded a dayBy now you will have heard of Major Nidal Malak Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist who shot 13 of his colleagues dead and wounded 31 inside the army's largest base, Fort Hood in Texas, last Thursday.
America's Mass Murder Addiction: No other prosperous country not torn by civil conflict has anything like our volume of mass killings. More than health care, the economy, jobs, Afghanistan, Iraq, public malfeasance, private dishonesty, civil rights, disease or tainted food, mass murder is American's primary problem and most fundamental shame.
U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years The United States economy shed 190,000 jobs in October, and the unemployment rate reached a 26-year high of 10.2 percent, up from 9.8 percent in September, the Department of Labor said Friday in its monthly economic appraisal.
Obama to Lift HIV/AIDS Travel BanWASHINGTON (Oct. 31) -- President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 20-year-old U.S. travel ban against people with HIV early next year.
Lack of health care led to the DEATH of 17,000 American Children- StudyThe research, to be published Friday in the Journal of Public Health, was compiled from more than 23 million hospital records from 37 states between 1988 and 2005.
Health care reform is moral battle for the soul of a nationIn all the lobbying and bargaining in Washington, D.C., we seem to have forgotten about the moral imperative to take care of the sick. One issue that is bandied about is that a public health care option would be too expensive. Why are we counting cost? This is America.
Barack Obama: A Man ApartDenying America's exceptionalism, the president seeks to recondition our national instincts.
Sarah Palin still refusing to summit emailsthe wait is still on for Palin e-mails
President Obama fights against a corrupt leadership format in America By: Gloria J.
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