AP – A record 20 million-plus people collected unemployment benefits at some point in 2009, a year that ended with the jobless rate at 10 percent. More: continued here
AP – A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007. More: continued here
AP – The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and wounded six more at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and had not been searched, two former U.S. officials have told The Associated Press. More: continued here
Preserve the dreamLatino PerspectivesIt became a reality when I moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, and enrolled as an undergraduate student at Northern Arizona University (NAU). … More: continued here
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PHOENIX (AP) — More than a year after Arizona became the first state in the country to deploy dozens of speed cameras on highways statewide, threats to the groundbreaking program abound. Profits are far below expectations and a citizen effort to ban the cameras continues to gain steam. The governor has said she does not [...]
AP – The Nigerian suspected of trying to bring down a U.S. airliner with explosives might have used Arabic studies as a pretext for entering Yemen before disappearing for months, perhaps into one of the lawless country’s al-Qaida strongholds, fellow students and teachers said. More: continued here
AP – A lone gunman dressed in black killed five people, four in a crowded shopping mall, before returning home and taking his own life on Thursday. It was the third such massacre in Finland in about two years, and once again raised questions about gun control in a Nordic country where hunting is popular. [...]
AP – About 10 years ago the government set some lofty health goals for the nation to reach by 2010. More: continued here
