Articles Tagged with United States

Iran Claims US Drones Were Spying On Oil Tankers

Iran Claims US Drones Were Spying On Oil Tankers

For the U.S. drones Iran is now claiming that United States was spying on Iranian oil tankers in the Persian Gulf off of Iran’s shores. Iran’s oil tankers on Kharg Island handle most of Iran’s crude oil exports and thus the U.S drone was targeted by US-25′s because the U.S. drone was purportedly violating Iran’s… Read more »

Iranian Jets Attack US Predator Drone In International Airspace [Update]

US Predator Drone Attacked By Iran

After being swept aside in the tumult over the campaign and the President’s victory in the election, disturbing news emerged Thursday concerning the increasing tensions between the United States and Iran. Responding to a question from a CNN reporter, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little admitted that two Iranian SU-25 fighter jets opened fire on an… Read more »

Puerto Rico Votes To Become 51st State

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Puerto Rico could soon become the 51st state of the United States. Puerto Ricans voted in favor of statehood last night in a non-binding referendum. The vote still needs to be approved by Congress, but President Obama has already said that he would support statehood for Puerto Rico. According to the BBC, voters in Puerto… Read more »

Colombia Drug Lord Captured In Argentina

Colombian Drug Lord Arrested In Argentina

Colombia’s notorious drug lord, Henry de Jesus Lopez, was arrested in a suburb of Buenos Aires, after a months-long chase led by Colombian police through South America. The Colombian drug lord known as Mi Sangre, or My Blood, is thought to be the leader of the Urabenos gang, which dictates much of the drug trade… Read more »

President Obama Surveys Storm Sandy Devestation In Atlantic City

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President Obama, accompanied with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie surveyed Storm Sandy’s wreckage in Atlantic City, on Wednesday. President Obama surveyed a city which was hit particularly hard by the storm, leaving millions of residents without power and their homes flooded. Governor Christie anticipates the destruction’s toll will be billions of dollars, The Wall Street… Read more »

Tom Sermanni Hired As New US Women’s Coach

Tom Sermanni Hired As New Coach

Tom Sermanni was hired as coach of the US women’s soccer team on Tuesday, replacing Pia Sundhage. Sermanni has coached Australia’s team for the last eight years before taking the position as coach with the US women’s team, The Washington Timesreported. In 2008, The United States Soccer Federation had interviewed Sermanni but decided to hire… Read more »

Music Piracy: United States Tops List Of Illegal Downloaders

Americans Download The Most Illegal Music

In a study recently released by Musicmetric, Americans steal more music than anyone else on the planet. According to Music Week, people in the United States downloaded approximately 96.6 million illegal files over the first six months of 2012. If the bandwidth keeps flowing at this rate, Americans will have snatched nearly 200 million files… Read more »

Obama Refuses To Meet With Netanyahu During His UN Visit

Obama Turns Down Request For Meeting With Netanyahu

President Obama has refused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for a meeting when the Jewish nation’s leader attends the annual UN conference at the end of September. This marks the first time the American President has not met with Netanyahu when the Israeli Prime Minister was in the United States. Compounding the conflict between… Read more »

USA Wins Olympic Medal Count, British Celebrate Too

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It was neck and neck for a while there, but with the 2012 London Olympics finally over and done with, it was the United States atop the medal count. The U.S. finished the Olympics with more overall medals, and more gold medals than any other nation. America’s 46 gold medals topped China’s 38, and the… Read more »

Pat Buchanan Hopes To Be Dead Before U.S. Elects First Female President

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Pat Buchanan wants to be dead before the United States elects its first female President. Bucnahan was talking on PBS’ McLaughlin Group on Friday when he joked about the election of the first U.S President. When asked when America would be likely to elect its first female president Buchanan quipped, “Let’s hope” it’s not before… Read more »