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Wall Street JournalThe Election That Saved the United StatesWall Street JournalBut if McClellan had won, it would have been the last election in United States as a unified nation. Handsome and self-confident, the 37-year-old McClellan had won several minor victories early in the war and was promoted to command the Union forces.

Raw StoryHomeland Security: Islamic State poses no specific threat within the United StatesRaw StoryThe United States is not aware of any specific threat to the U.S. homeland from Islamic State militants, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday after Britain raised its international terrorism threat level. Islamic State militants and their ...

CNNISIS: Is it really a threat to the US?CNN(CNN) -- U.S. officials are claiming that the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, is "now a credible alternative to al Qaeda." But what does that really mean in terms of ISIS' potential threat to the United States? After all, al ...

New York TimesHospitals in the US Get Ready for EbolaNew York TimesDr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has said such a case is inevitable in the United States, and the agency this month issued the first extensive guidelines for hospitals on how recognize and treat Ebola ...

ThinkProgressThe United States' Press Freedom Problem Goes Beyond FergusonThinkProgressJournalists forcibly removed from covering a story. Facing down tear gas and hostile police. Finding themselves under arrest. It's a situation that is supposed to happen in other countries, not the United States. But last night in Ferguson, MO ...

CityLabWhy Can't the United States Build a High-Speed Rail System?CityLabVirtually every wealthy nation in the world has invested in a high-speed rail network—with the striking exception of the United States. From Japan to France, even from Turkey to Russia, trains travel through the country at speeds of 150 miles per hour ...

Philly.comFight continues over the SS United StatesPhilly.comDeveloper Joe Henwood has an idea for the ailing SS United States: Free it from its dockside prison, tow it down the Delaware River, and transform it into a grand, floating hotel beside Harrah's casino in Chester. The nonprofit conservancy that owns ...

Fox NewsUS launches five more airstrikes Sunday, destroying four Islamic State armored ...Fox NewsThe United States launched another round of air strikes Sunday against Islamic militants in Iraq, destroying several armed vehicles, according to the Defense Department. The five attacks by U.S. fighter jets and drones destroyed four armed Islamic ...

New York TimesKurdish Forces Confront ISIS Fighters as US Airstrikes ContinueNew York TimesThe American airstrikes, carried out by drones and fighter jets, were intended to protect Kurdish forces near Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, according to a statement by the United States Central Command. The strikes hit several armed ...

NBCNews.comSecond Strike: US Warplanes Drop More Bombs on ISIS ForcesNBCNews.comThe United States launched another round of airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq Friday, using drones and a fighter jets to attack a mortar position and vehicle convoy near Erbil, the Pentagon said. The strikes came a day after they were threatened by ...

ChicagoNow (blog)The United States must return to Iraq to fight ISIS and achieve gloryChicagoNow (blog)The greatest glory of the United States has been World War II. Hitler represented the epitome of evil, the ugly face of extreme bigotry, intolerance, and mass murder. It seems that after WWII the U.S. has engaged in conflicts to recapture the glory ...

ReutersUS doctor stricken with Ebola said to be improvingReutersA second U.S. aid worker who contracted Ebola alongside Brantly, missionary Nancy Writebol, will be brought to the United States on a later flight as the medical aircraft is equipped to carry only one patient at a time. Standard treatment for the ...