Running low on hope and almost out of time, the Americans were surely beat, about to make their earliest exit from the Women’s World Cup.And then, with one of the most thrilling goals in U.S. history, they weren’t.Showing a dramatic burst sure to captivate the folks back home, the Americans packed an entire World Cup’s
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Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks. The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was “the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda” — and
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In a blunt challenge to his nation’s critics, President Barack Obama on Wednesday exhorted world leaders who once accused the United States of acting alone to now join with him in solving global crises rather than wait for America to do it on its own. In his first address to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama
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A 51-year-old mother with undiagnosed heart disease; a 26-year-old with unusual fatigue. Neither had health insurance; both died. Newly published research in the American Journal of Public Health estimates that 45,000 deaths per year in the United States are associated with the lack of health insurance. “It means you’re at mortal risk,” said Dr. David
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The H1N1 flu virus could cause up to 90,000 U.S. deaths, mainly among children and young adults, if it resurges this fall as expected, according to a report released Monday by a presidential advisory panel. Read More…

The guitarist stands in front of a mirror messing with his mohawk. The drummer strikes a wild tempo. The singer rips off his T-shirt and begins to scream the lyrics. They’re young. They’re punk. And they’re rocking both their Muslim and American worlds with their music, lyrics and style. “A lot of times people say,
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Emily Weinstein graduated from college into an economic meltdown, and as a self-employed jewelry maker she’ll be lucky to bring in $16,000 this year. Heath insurance is out of reach, so she avoids thinking about what would happen if she got sick, was hurt in a traffic accident or was severely burned while making a
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Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden purportedly issued another statement Wednesday, saying U.S. policy in Pakistan has generated “new seeds of hatred and revenge against America.” Zeroing in on the conflict in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, where Pakistan’s troops are taking on Taliban militants, the message asserts that President Obama is proving that he is “walking
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U.S. communities are changing complexion as ethnic diversity grows in the American heartland. Though not new in California, Arizona, Texas or Florida, the change of demographics is a bit more surprising in southwest Kansas. Finney County, Kansas, is one of six counties across the nation that became majority-minority between 2007 and 2008, the U.S. Census
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