DETROIT—After kicking the tires on a shiny new train system, the Motor City has decided to take the cheaper bus instead. This week, the U.S. Department of Transportation and Mayor Dave Bing suddenly abandoned a roughly $600 million plan to build a light-rail line along a key corridor that supporters had insisted would attract [...]
Reuters - Three people were shot on Thursday afternoon at a courthouse in a remote corner of northeastern Minnesota, and a suspect has been taken into custody, authorities said.[Read more...]
The Department of Commerce is placing restrictions on a person and a company in the United Arab Emirates for supplying Syria with Internet-filtering devices made by California-based Blue Coat Systems Inc. Enlarge ImageClose none More on Blue Coat U.S. Firm Acknowledges Syria Uses Gear to Block Web [...]
Reuters - Three people were shot on Thursday afternoon at a courthouse in the northeastern corner of Minnesota, one seriously, a Cook County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher said.[Read more...]
The U.S. Department of Commerce is placing restrictions on a person and a company in the United Arab Emirates for supplying Syria with Internet-filtering devices made by California-based Blue Coat Systems Inc. Enlarge ImageClose none More on Blue Coat U.S. Firm Acknowledges Syria Uses Gear to Block Web [...]
Reuters - A survey of 29 cities shows hunger has risen in most of them in the last year and is largely expected to increase in 2012 as the United States faces a sluggish economy, the U.S. Conference of Mayors said on Thursday.[Read more...]
Reuters - A growing number of families in the United States are struggling to put food on the table as poverty rises in major cities, a new survey showed on Thursday.[Read more...]
The Obama administration has been quietly pushing to sell armed drones to key allies, but it has run into resistance from U.S. lawmakers concerned about the proliferation of technology and know-how. The Pentagon wants more North Atlantic Treaty Organization members to have such pilotless aircraft to ease the burden on the U.S. in Afghanistan [...]
Reuters - On a quiet stretch of the waterfront here, about a mile from Boston’s main tourist sites, a Gillette factory hums along 24 hours a day making an unlikely commodity: top-of-the-line razors.[Read more...]
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - President Barack Obama said the Iraq war will reach its formal end Thursday, when an American flag signifying the U.S. military mission is ceremonially taken down and returned to the United States. President Obama pinpointed the timing for the end of the nearly nine-year-long U.S. military presence in a speech [...]
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Elated, last US troops leave Iraq, ending war
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