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As President Barack Obama visits China seeking to balance a seesawing relationship, Chinese-Americans embody the challenges facing the giants of East and West.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is again calling on Iran to release three Americans as a senior Iranian prosecutor said they have been accused of espionage.
A senior Iranian prosecutor says three Americans detained on the border with Iraq have been accused of espionage.
President Barack Obama is re-creating a federal panel to address concerns of Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders and to work on improving their health, education and economic status.
Olympic silver medalist Meb Keflezighi will run this year's New York City Marathon.
Leaders of U.S. Muslim groups who met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad say they are "guardedly optimistic" that three American hikers held there would be released soon.
The Serbian war crimes court acquitted two former Serb policemen Tuesday of collaborating in the execution-style slaying of three Albanian-American brothers in 1999.
The families of three American hikers detained in Iran said Wednesday they were hopeful the three would be released and return home soon after Iran' president said he would ask the country's judiciary to be lenient in their case.
A U.S. official says American, French, and Mexican citizens were among the passengers aboard a hijacked plane in Mexico.
The official poverty rate for Americans 65 years and older has long been 10 percent, the lowest among age groups. The true rate could be nearly twice that high, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula that is gaining credibility for adding medical costs, geographic variations in cost of living and other factors.
The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living.
Family members of three Americans who were detained in Iran a month ago called for their safe return Monday, saying the backpackers' unauthorized entry into the Middle Eastern country was a "regrettable mistake."
Three American hikers detained in Iran are "totally harmless" travelers who carefully planned a trip in Iraq but apparently accidentally ended up crossing the border, their relatives said Thursday.
Statement from the families of Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal regarding their detention in Iran:
Three American hikers detained in Iran for nearly two weeks entered the country by mistake and their families are hoping for a quick resolution that will reunite them with their children, the families said in a statement Tuesday.
The Iraqi foreign minister said Sunday that he was hopeful that three Americans detained in Iran after crossing the border from northern Iraq will be released soon
Shon Meckfessel says three of his friends being detained in Iran made a simple, regrettable mistake by crossing into that country while hiking in Iraq.
Young, adventurous and versed in the tools of an Internet age, a brave new generation of journalists is spreading out across the globe to tell the stories they care about from an often personal perspective.
Iran has arrested three Americans for illegally entering the country from neighboring Iraq and a prominent Iranian lawmaker said Tuesday that authorities were investigating whether to charge them with spying.
The White House says Iran has confirmed it has three American hikers in custody.
An American linguistics student traveling in northern Iraq didn't go on an ill-fated hiking trip because he had a cold — a twist of fate that prevented him from mistakenly wandering into Iran where his three friends were reportedly detained.
The State Department says it's aware of Iranian media reports that three American citizens have been detained in Iran.
Iran state TV confirmed Saturday that it has detained three Americans who crossed the border from northern Iraq, saying they failed to heed warnings from Iranian guards. Kurdish officials from the self-ruled region in northern Iraq said the three — two men and a woman — were tourists who had mistakenly crossed into Iranian territory Friday while hiking in a mountainous area near the resort town of Ahmed Awaa.
Great sports victories should be shared by all Americans. So must be devastating losses.
Thomas Finchum's stomach was churning as he climbed to the top of the 10-meter tower for the last time on a scorching Italian day.
Largest Rise Ever In Number Of Americans Going HungryAccording to a government report that was released today, Monday, there has been the largest rise ever in the number of Americans who lack proper access to adequate food.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Explosion at Nato base in KabulThe BBC's Martin Patience assess the damage caused by the blast A car bomber has struck outside a Nato base in the Afghan capital Kabul, injuring three foreign soldiers and three Afghan civilians, officials say.
With 10.2% Unemployment, These Groups Are Lobbying For More Foreign Workers (give them a call) | NumbersUSA - For Lower Immigration LevelsEvery month, we get more terrible unemployment news. (Now, we hear the official unemployment rate has hit 10.2%!)
Why should the birthright of equality for tens of millions of GLBT American citizens first depend upon getting a majority of people to stop hating them? There would be a tidal wave of blood flowing in the streets and entire cities set ablaze if any other minority' s rights were p …
Strange Bedfellows: An American Ally TONITE, TENS OF THOUSANDS WILL ENTER BATTLE ON OUR SIDE, FEW AMERICANS WILL EVER KNOW
97% of Americans Agree on WHAT!?I didn't think 97 percent of Americans were in agreement about anything, but apparently they are about...
The State of American WomenIn my observation of your online article and brief review of the newsstand copy, I am very disappointed relating to the article on the status of American women.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan's growing anti-US angerBy Aleem Maqbool BBC News, Islamabad Recently, while Pakistan's government may have been saying the things that the White House wants to hear, the country's media and public have often been openly hostile towards the United States.
Is there any particular time during difficulties that "Eureka moments" occur? Is it time for logic to win the moment? What would Americans have done if peoples of Arabic/Middle eastern persuasion had come to America to help US with our Civil War? Maybe a more current example woul …
Strange American responses!What should have been a synchronous application of force on both sides of the Durand line ends up being a piston applied from one end into a perforated second end of a tube; a loss of effect and diffusion of the entire effort
Republicans Are Blocking Confirmation For Obama's Surgeon General NomineeThe Republican party has really gone too far because they're playing with all our lives as it relate to the H1N1 virus.
An Apology to Third World Dictators & Robber BaronsEver since I was old enough learn about "politics," and its practitioners, especially those labeled "third world dictators," I have been railing against those third world dictators. Everyone knew about the "big boys," like Adolph, Mao and their ilk.
In the yesterday's episode of 'How I met your Mother' a CBS T.V sitcom, Barney Stinson awarded Robin Scherbatsky US citizenship declaring: "Not only you are WRONG but you are also belligerently sticking to your guns…AND insulting me in the process, I hereby pronounce yo …
The Boys Who Cry Racism :: Harry SteinMore than a few on the right are alarmed by the torrent of racism accusations that an all-star cast of liberal luminaries has directed at President Obama's critics.
Poll: Nearly half of voter disapprove of Obama's health care handlingAn expected result.
American Freedom ...Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) Speaks After Weekly GOP Conference Meeting "... 81 percent of Americans feel that the Obama Administration needs to do more about the unemployment affecting everyone in this country.
Pakistan Aid Places U.S. in the Midst of a DivideISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The new aid package for Pakistan passed by Congress last month - a promise of $7.5 billion for civilian needs over the next five years - has unwittingly thrust the United States into the center of the perennially uneasy relationship between Pakistan's powerf …
Great Obama VideoThis video of past Obama-McCain presidential race is now history, but we must never forget our history because what we decided yesterday in America is why we're involved in the socialist vs. democratic decisions of today and tomorrow.
An unsuspecting Canadian in King Barack Obama's courtFall is gloriously sunny and warm in Washington these days and reporting live most mornings from the lawn of the White House, with the First Pooch periodically emerging for a frolic, makes for quite a pleasant foreign posting.
Start a new business in uncertain timesMany Americans are hoping fall will bring more than beautiful foliage. They are hoping it will bring a job. August unemployment numbers showed 259,307 more American workers losing their jobs.
Obama pitches health care plan in front of doctors | Top AP Stories | Chron.com - Houston ChronicleOn the cusp of a key legislative push, President Barack Obama on Monday filled the Rose Garden with doctors supportive of his health care overhaul, saying "nobody has more credibility with the American people on this issue than you do."
Americans' privacy put at risk again - St. Petersburg TimesEven during the height of public fears in the wake of 9/11, a line was drawn at domestic surveillance that uses data-mining.
The Phantom Fix for Health Care Democrats have a tiger by the tail. It is dawning on them that the people screaming at those town-hall meetings over the summer were not just feigning anger or sublimating their personal neuroses.
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