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'New AIDS of the Americas' strikes in U.S. backyard ​ Chagas disease may be the "AIDS of the Americas," according to an editorial in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, a periodical to which you're now happy you don't subscribe. The South American parasite enlarges the heart or intestines in...

May 8, 2011 The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its psychological-operations personnel, according to Yahoo! News blog The Upshot. Since at least 2001, both WRAL, a CBS affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., and WTOC, a CBS affiliate in Savannah, Ga...

1 hr 30 mins ago GENEVA – A U.N. torture investigator said Monday he is frustrated at being denied an unmonitored visit to a U.S. Army private suspected of giving classified material to WikiLeaks. Juan Mendez said the U.S. government "has not been receptive to a confidential meeting" with Pfc...

6 Apr 2011 - U.S. Postage Stamps Honor Project Mercury & MESSENGER The 50th anniversary of America's first manned spaceflight is being commemorated with the issuance of two stamps. The stamps go on sale May 4. More...

BAGHDAD – The U.S. military says an American soldier has died in southern Iraq. In a statement issued Monday, the military said the soldier died from wounds sustained from a roadside bomb attack during operations in southern Iraq. The statement gave no further details. The name of the...

MSNBC Feb 28, 2011 Bernard Madoff, convicted for organizing a ponzi scheme, criticized the U.S. during a recent telephone interview with New York Magazine. Source...

NAIROBI, Kenya – Four Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates off East Africa were shot and killed by their captors Monday, the U.S. military said, marking the first time U.S. citizens have been killed in a wave of pirate attacks plaguing the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean for years. U.S...

-- Gunmen opened fire and tossed a grenade inside a downtown bar early Saturday in the tourist district of Guadalajara, Mexico, killing six people and wounding another 37, authorities said. Jalisco State Prosecutor Tomas Coronado Olmos said the attack may have been the result of a fight between...

BAGHDAD – Iraqi politicians face the contentious question this year of whether to ask U.S. troops to stay beyond an end-of-2011 deadline for their departure. That decision has become far more complicated with the return to Iraq of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The future of U.S. troops...

The last remaining active player from the U.S. team that won the inaugural women's soccer World Cup in 1991 - and the youngest and oldest woman to score for America - has called it a career. Kristine Lilly, 39, has retired with 352 appearances for her national team, by far a world record for...

MSNBC Wednesday, December 22, 2010 The British government has trained a paramilitary force accused of hundreds of killings in Bangladesh, according to leaked U.S. embassy cables. The Guardian newspaper said the cables described training for members of the Rapid Action Battalion as being in...

BEIJING – The U.S. Federal Reserve's move to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the financial system will bring greater volatility to markets worldwide, a Chinese official said Monday. The step will create new waves of cash sloshing in and out of countries in search of short-term...

Ed Carson Investors.com Oct 10, 2010 The U.S. economy lost 95,000 jobs in September, far worse than expectations for no change in employment. More Census-related temp jobs ended, as expected, but state and local governments slashed staff far more than predicted. So far in 2010, the U.S. has...

Quote: Ex-military men say unknown intruders have monitored and even tampered with American nuclear missiles Group to call on U.S. Government to reveal the facts WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military...

Joe Weisenthal Business Insider Aug 23, 2010 In his latest weekly letter, John Hussman warns of an imminent and disorderly collapse of the US dollar, courtesy of Ben Bernanke’s move towards more quantitative easing. The whole thing is worth reading, but here’s the key part of it: From the...

(This article originally appeared on the Joint Recon Study Group site.) According to accounts released Saturday, April 24, 2010, by the coordinator of an e-mail news and information service, officials of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), U.S. Air Force Office of Special...

James B. Kelleher Reuters April1, 2010 Eight members of an extremist militia group accused of conspiring to kill law enforcement officers as part of a wider war on the U.S. government pleaded not guilty in federal court on Wednesday. Attorneys for the eight sought to fight government efforts...

China vows to hit back if targeted by U.S. on yuan BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing will retaliate if the United States declares China a currency manipulator and imposes trade sanctions, Commerce Minister Chen Deming said on Sunday, firing the latest salvo in a spat over the value of the yuan. go...

Bloomberg March 15, 2010 The U.S. and the U.K. have moved “substantially” closer to losing their AAA credit ratings as the cost of servicing their debt rose, according to Moody’s Investors Service. The governments of the two economies must balance bringing down their debt burdens without...

Michael McKee and Alex Nicholson Bloomberg News Friday, January 29, 2010 Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Russia urged China to dump its Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds in 2008 in a bid to force a bailout of the largest U.S. mortgage-finance companies, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said...