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Texas to vote on curriculum that changes history
The slave trade was in fact the "Atlantic triangular trade". Capitalism, with all its negative connotations, should in future be referred to as the "free enterprise system".
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US Senate approves Wall St reform bill new
Friday, 21 May 2010
The U.S. Senate approved a sweeping Wall Street reform bill on Thursday night, capping months of wrangling over the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s.
Oil leak greater than first estimates, BP admits
Friday, 21 May 2010
BP admitted yesterday that considerably more oil could be spurting from its crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico than the 5,000 barrels a day that it had initially estimated.
US hikers jailed in Iran briefly reunited with their mothers
Friday, 21 May 2010
Three Americans jailed in Iran for 10 months hugged and kissed their mothers in an emotional reunion yesterday after the women arrived on a mission to secure the release of their children.
'Crashers' stopped near White House
Friday, 21 May 2010
White House "party crashers", Michaele and Tareq Salahi, were stopped by the Secret Service on Wednesday evening after their limousine attempted to pull in to a restricted area near the White House.
Primary pain for Obama in night of ominous wins for outsiders
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Republicans split as anti-establishment Tea Party celebrates victory in Kentucky
Mexican President condemns Arizona law
Thursday, 20 May 2010
President Felipe Calderon of Mexico arrived at the White House yesterday and almost without pause punctured the pomp and ceremony with a blunt rebuke of a new Arizona law that makes it a crime under state law to be on the north side of the border without proper documentation.
Cuban officials head to US for oil slick talks
Thursday, 20 May 2010
US and Cuban officials are holding "working level" talks on how to respond to the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill that is believed to be dumping 5,000 barrels of crude a day into the Gulf of Mexico, according to State Department officials.
US persuades Security Council to impose new Iran sanctions
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Washington gets tough with Ahmadinejad despite deal brokered by Turkey and Brazil
Rich and powerful: Obama and the global super-elite
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
US President is still some way short of rivalling the very richest world leaders.
American consumers throw off the hair shirt
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
American consumers, whose debt-fuelled spending was the engine of global growth until the credit crisis, appear to once again be trading up to more expensive purchases, after two years of hair-shirt habits.
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