The New York Times
| Nov 26, 2012
Professional American kiteboarder Rob Douglas is training in Martha's Vineyard to recapture his title as the fastest human under sail. He skims the surface of the water just two inches deep between buoys in a bid to best the 68.34 mph set early th...
BBC Arabic
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Mosaic
| Nov 26, 2012
BBC Arabic reports that in the Qatari capital Doha, the 18th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has begun. The conference aims to achieve progress in the stalled negotiations to reduce greenhouse gases, and to see...
LinkAsia
| Nov 26, 2012
The Southeast Asian nations most important to the US strategy of containment towards China have been dubbed "swing states." LinkAsia speaks with Daljit Singh of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies about the effectiveness of Obama's China cont...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 26, 2012
Thousands of Bangladeshis first gathered to mourn -- then erupted into furious protests -- in the wake of a horrific garment factory fire that claimed as many as 120 lives, most of them women. The eight-story factory north of Dhaka produced clothi...
Voice of America
| Nov 25, 2012
Democrat and Republican lawmakers return to work this week focused on broad federal tax hikes and deep spending cuts that automatically take effect on January 1. Will the White House and congressional leaders find a middle ground before reaching t...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 24, 2012
As the largest shopping season of the year kicks off across the United States, Walmart employees walked off the job in protest against poor working conditions. Will the retail giant's low prices cause consumers to act blind to workers' demands for...
Associated Press
| Nov 23, 2012
Eight people were injured when a natural gas explosion leveled a strip club, heavily damaged two other buildings and blew out all the windows in a three-block radius in downtown Springfield, the largest city in western Massachusetts. One responder...
CompilarizTV
| Nov 23, 2012
Shoppers were injured in scuffles, shot (outside a Florida Walmart), plowed into by a Washington driver supected of being drunk, and busted (along with striking Walmart workers) as bargain-ravenous Americans stampeded into stores across the nation...
Whitehouse.gov
| Nov 22, 2012
President Obama praised the efforts of Sandy rescuers and referred to the "passionate" campaign season in this year's Thanksgiving address. The holiday, he said, is "a chance to put it all in perspective" and remember that "despite our difference...
Associated Press
| Nov 21, 2012
In a presidential handout even Mitt Romney would approve of, President Obama and his family helped out at a Washington DC food bank on the eve of Thanksgiving. The Obamas distributed bags of produce and chatted to clients at the Capital Area Food ...
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The United States of America, commonly called the United States, or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is situated in the northwest portion of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to its west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also has several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles and with around 315 million people, the United States is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area and the third-largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The geography and climate of the U.S. is also extremely diverse, with deserts, plains, forests, and mountains that are home to a wide variety of species.
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