Associated Press
| Apr 28, 2013
Thrilled fans lined up in Los Angeles to catch a surprise gig by the Rolling Stones ahead of their "50 and Counting" anniversary tour. Tickets for the 90-minute concert at the Echoplex in the Echo Park neighborhood went for a mere $20. Bruce Willi...
BostonMIST
| Apr 26, 2013
"We are one Boston," victims of stereotyping and prejudice stress in this "It Gets Better"-style video created by a youth group after a surge in racist attacks following the Boston bombing.
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 25, 2013
As the George W. Bush library opens its doors, Al Jazeera looks inside the presidential library of an earlier GOP leader: Richard Nixon. The California facility is no shrine, but takes a detailed look at the Watergate scandal and other issues -- a...
Associated Press
| Apr 23, 2013
Ok, so maybe some of them were smiling, but a gang of "student zombies" overran the School of Public Health at the Unversity of Michigan. They were there at the invitation of a professor who was trying to make a point, tongue in cheek (or maybe to...
PBS NewsHour
| Apr 22, 2013
The number of hunger strikers protesting conditions at Guantanamo Bay has increased to more than half of the prisoners, with 84 of the 166 captives refusing to eat and 16 being force-fed while bound to a chair or a gurney. The military is rushing ...
Democracy Now!
| Apr 22, 2013
Guardian columnist and constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald compares the widespread labeling of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev as "terrorists," to the reaction to other recent acts of mass violence such as th...
Channel 4 News
| Apr 22, 2013
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction leading to the deaths of three people in the bombing of the Boston marathon.
CNN
| Apr 21, 2013
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains in serious condition but he is conscious and beginning to write answers to questions from law enforcement authorities, report both ABC and CNN. He's unable to speak because of gunshot injuries to hi...
Newsy
| Apr 20, 2013
Across the US, and in an increasing number of countries around the world, weed enthusiasts are lighting up on April 20, a day where pot smokers and activists celebrate the controversial drug. The history of how 4/20 became an unofficial holiday fo...
The Wall Street Journal
| Apr 20, 2013
The capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the death of his older brother Tamerlan capped a tumultuous five days for Boston, as the world watched the aftermath of the shocking bombing at the Boston marathon unfold. Many stuck on the sidelines were overw...
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...and U.S. relations in the region. Special operations play a critical role in how the United States confronts irregular threats, but to have long...
— Oct 25, 2012 at 01:38 pm
...before the anniversary. She said the United States has continued to work as a leader within the United Nations, taking a leading role in efforts...
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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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