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Slate Magazine (blog)How the US Media Would Cover Thanksgiving if It Were in Another CountrySlate Magazine (blog)WASHINGTON, D.C., United States—On Wednesday morning, this normally bustling capital city became a ghost town as most of its residents embarked on the long journey to their home villages for an annual festival of family, food, and questionable ...

Foreign Policy (blog)US to Back Privacy Resolution It Knee-CappedForeign Policy (blog)The United States, Great Britain, and its chief intelligence allies, known as the Five Eyes, agreed late Friday to support a Brazilian and German sponsored General Assembly resolution promoting an international right to privacy, but only after ...

Wall Street JournalGerald F. SeibWall Street JournalTheir underlying worry is that the negotiations with Iran represent just the latest evidence that a war-weary U.S. is slowly seeking to close the books on a series of nettlesome long-term problems, allowing Washington to pull back from its longtime ...

Washington PostUS to offer Afghans assurances to remove hurdle in post-2014 dealWashington PostA last-minute hitch in the agreement over a post-2014 U.S. military presence in Afghanistan appeared to have been resolved Tuesday as the United States agreed to put certain assurances in a letter to Afghans that is likely to be signed by President ...

Washington Post (blog)Map: The United States of WatershedsWashington Post (blog)When American settlers moved westward in the 19th century, they went in search of precious gold, furs and land. But today, as the West booms, there's another limited commodity that states need to carefully ration: Water. John Wesley Powell saw this coming.

Washington PostIn Kabul, clinic funded by US military closing because of lack of government ...Washington PostAs the United States' longest war winds down, hundreds of aid projects are being handed over to Afghan ministries, which sometimes lack the capacity or interest to sustain what foreign donors started. The Urgent and Primary Care Clinic in Kabul is a ...

The GuardianUS regulations are hampering Bitcoin's growthThe GuardianIf the United States does not foster a reasonable regulatory environment for Bitcoin, the country might soon lose its head start in what could be the next great technological revolution. That's the message policymakers should hear today and tomorrow ...

New York TimesA Russian GPS Using US Soil Stirs Spy FearsNew York TimesWASHINGTON — In the view of America's spy services, the next potential threat from Russia may not come from a nefarious cyberweapon or secrets gleaned from the files of Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor now in Moscow.

RTTPP draft: United States reasserts its role as a world's schoolyard bullyRTWhile the contents of the proposed trade agreement are certainly interesting, not to say very alarming, it's even more interesting to see how the United States keeps asserting its industry interests over the world under the false flag of “free trade ...

NPRForget The 50 States; The US Is Really 11 Nations, Author SaysNPRFor hundreds of years, this nation has been known as the United States of America. But according to author and journalist Colin Woodard, the country is neither united, nor made up of 50 states. Woodward has studied American voting patterns ...

Major League SoccerReport: Tab Ramos gets new deal as United States U-20 national team coachMajor League SoccerAccording to a report Saturday from ESPN, Ramos has been signed to a new, four-year contract that will see him both stay on as the U-20 coach and take up the role of U.S. Soccer's youth technical director. He will replace Claudio Reyna in the latter ...

NBCNews.com (blog)US hijacker returns from Cuba after nearly 30 years to face chargesNBCNews.com (blog)An American who almost 30 years ago hijacked a plane and forced it to fly to Cuba was taken into FBI custody after he returned to the United States on Wednesday to face federal charges. William Potts hid a handgun in a plaster cast when he boarded a ...

Aljazeera.comUS elects new governors and mayorsAljazeera.comThe off-year vote in several US states and cities will be scrutinised for clues to the mood of Americans ahead of next year's congressional elections - especially with a pragmatic conservative Republican, Christie, prevailing in New Jersey, while a ...

Foreign Policy (blog)Global Push to Rein in US Moves from Spying to GitmoForeign Policy (blog)More than 12 years after the United States launched its global war on terrorism, testing the outer limits of international law, many of America's allies are seeking to turn back the clock to a time when targeted killings, clandestine prisons, and ...

Slate MagazineIf Sweden Is a Welfare State, Why Does It Have So Many Billionaires?Slate MagazineBut Stefan Persson, the chairman, main shareholder, and former longtime CEO of H&M, leads a roster of Swedish billionaires who outpace the U.S. (No. 14) on a per capita basis. In part this is just a bit of a funny coincidence—it's a fairly small ...