xml/USA.xml en-gb The highlighted stories from the USA category of the Spiderednews web site. Mon, 21 May 2012 10:51:10 GMT © 2012 SpideredNews.com15NYTIMESSat, 19 May 2012 03:40:08 +0000Some Honduran officials and residents have said that the victims of a fatal gun battle last week were innocent people, challenging the account of American drug enforcement agents. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=991004http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=991004USAFEEDSPORTALMon, 21 May 2012 06:00:22 +0000A parking space with a million-dollar price tag has gone on the market in New York City.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999234http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999234USANYTIMESSat, 19 May 2012 04:15:13 +0000Rom?rio de Souza Faria, a former soccer star known for his nighttime escapades and public quarreling, is stirring up Brazilians in a new realm: politics. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=991018http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=991018USANPRSun, 20 May 2012 07:39:00 +0000U.S. diplomats can breathe a little easier knowing Chen Guangcheng is in the U.S. and the weeks of difficult negotiations and high drama are behind them. Chen arrived Saturday with his wife anhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997024http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997024USACHICAGOTRIBUNESun, 20 May 2012 19:52:00 +0000Two more men have been charged with planning to make explosives to be used during the NATO summit. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997130http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997130USAIBTIMESSun, 20 May 2012 06:37:30 +0000Mark Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan, his girlfriend for nine years, in a simple private ceremony.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997069http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997069USAIBTIMESSun, 20 May 2012 15:03:01 +0000A U.S. military instructor helping train Yemeni coast guards was shot and seriously wounded in an attack by unidentified assailants in the Red Sea city of Hudaida on Sunday, a Yemeni security http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997063http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997063USAIBTIMESSun, 20 May 2012 17:06:41 +0000Congressional leaders John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi pointed fingers across the aisle on Sunday morning talk shows over the reemerging debt ceiling debate, calling for differenhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997052http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997052USAIBTIMESSun, 20 May 2012 17:11:35 +0000House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan demurred at the chance to reveal his status as presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney's potential running mate on Sunday's "Meet The http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997049http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997049USAIBTIMESSun, 20 May 2012 15:57:55 +0000It has been a year since a tornado hit the small city of Joplin in the state of Missouri in the US and its residents are still picking up bits and pieces of their lives, as they lurch to recovhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997060http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997060USAIBTIMESSun, 20 May 2012 16:26:58 +0000NATO leaders met in Chicago on Sunday to discuss a way out of a wavering commitment in Afghanistan, amid the backdrop of a city brimming with protesters, a foiled terrorist plot, a bombing thahttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997055http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997055USABBCSun, 20 May 2012 06:09:32 +0000US President Obama wraps up a G8 summit saying that leaders agree economies must focus on jobs and growth to boost recovery.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995811http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995811USAIBTIMESSun, 20 May 2012 19:23:23 +0000On Saturday, Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg married his long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan at his home in front of around 100 guests.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997044http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997044USAFEEDSPORTALSun, 20 May 2012 10:58:05 +0000US President Barack Obama, wrapping up the G8 summit hosted at Camp David, says the euro zone crisis is threatening the world economy, but welcomes Europe's new focus on jobs and growth as a phttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996610http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996610USANPRSun, 20 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000The White House is urging war-weary NATO leaders to dig deeper into their pockets to share the commitment to get Afghanistan's forces to stand up on their own so U.S. and NATO forces can pull http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997000http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997000USANPRSun, 20 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000Out West Sunday, it will start getting dark earlier than normal, but just for a little while. A major solar eclipse, although not quite total, will spread across the skies in a 200-mile swath http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997014http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997014USANPRSun, 20 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000Host Rachel Martin takes a moment to remember William Henderson Foote, a black federal agent in Mississippi in the late 1800s. He was honored this week by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fireahttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997020http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997020USAGUARDIANSat, 19 May 2012 14:02:00 +0000 As Facebook's public offering fizzled, so did the media's 'finance porn' hype. And perhaps a sense of just proportion was restored On Friday morning, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, Chttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=993356http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=993356USAGUARDIANSat, 19 May 2012 13:16:00 +0000 Lawyer says men are 'in shock' over allegations they tried to make a Molotov cocktail ahead of Nato summit protests Three Nato protesters, arrested in a late night raid on Wednesday, have http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=993363http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=993363USAFEEDSPORTALMon, 21 May 2012 08:55:11 +0000Google's annual Zeitgeist conference, held in the luxury Grove hotel in Herefordshire, begins today with a celebrity line-up of speakers said to include former US President Bill Clinton and mohttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999280http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999280USANPRSun, 20 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000Last fall, President Abe Lincoln lost his sword. The copper blade went missing from atop Lincoln's burial site in Illinois. Authorities eventually recovered it, but in two pieces. Now, as Rachhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996994http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996994USAABCNEWSSun, 20 May 2012 00:36:07 +0000The Kennedy family gathered north of New York City for her funeral. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996790http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996790USAFEEDSPORTALSun, 20 May 2012 06:20:29 +0000Engineers have developed a way of using lasers to remove ink from paper so it can be reused in printers and photocopiers.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996644http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996644USAGUARDIANSat, 19 May 2012 14:41:08 +0000 In weekly address, president accuses rivals in Congress of blocking efforts for tighter regulation in wake of JP Morgan fiasco President Barack Obama has attacked Republicans in Congress fhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=993349http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=993349USAINDEPENDENTSat, 19 May 2012 23:00:01 +0000 As someone who lived on the edge of the spotlight that shines on the Kennedys, Mary Richardson Kennedy was there long enough to become a partner in their rituals of grief - she was there whttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996026http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996026USASIFYSun, 20 May 2012 14:00:00 +0000Massachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997414http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997414USAFEEDSPORTALSun, 20 May 2012 16:00:46 +0000The US knows Nafta (North Atlantic Free trade Agreement), but it's learning 'hafta', the subcontinental term for protection money collected by gangsters. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997775http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997775USAGUARDIANSat, 19 May 2012 23:06:24 +0000 The singular sartorial style of David Cameron's former adviser smacks not of eccentricity, but arrogance Ridiculously, the search engine for the Freeman Spogli Institute for International http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995968http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995968USABBCSun, 20 May 2012 18:26:49 +0000A cheap drug, which is already prescribed for arthritis, could fight amoebic dysentery, according to researchers in the US.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998365http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998365USACNNSun, 20 May 2012 01:07:34 +0000What would be Greece's new currency if it leave the euro? CNN's Jim Boulden explores the possibility. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996473http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996473USANYTIMESSat, 19 May 2012 05:17:09 +0000The Rio de Janeiro State government said Friday that it would apologize to President Dilma Rousseff for the human rights abuses she suffered during the dictatorship that ruled Brazil. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994262http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994262USAIBTIMESSat, 19 May 2012 10:35:29 +0000SpaceX rocket launch aborted following technical glitches.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994203http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994203USAIBTIMESSat, 19 May 2012 18:30:00 +0000Fired for saying "bye bye" instead of "goodbye" to a customer? That's the reason The Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino gave for firing 37-year-old Melodee Megia in August 2011.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994196http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994196USAIBTIMESSat, 19 May 2012 19:58:34 +0000Sixteen-year-old Melissa Bassi has died from injuries sustained in a bombing at her high school in southern Italy. Although no group has claimed responsibility yet, officials suspect it may hahttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994193http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994193USANYTIMESSat, 19 May 2012 05:13:01 +0000The army said it had detained eight suspected members of the Gulf cartel and seized drugs and weapons during investigations into last week's discovery of dismembered bodies on a Mexican highwhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994260http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994260USANPRSat, 19 May 2012 05:58:00 +0000The privately funded, unmanned spacecraft was attempting its first flight to the International Space Station. The spacecraft had a one-second window to take off, and the failed launch means ithttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994131http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994131USAINDEPENDENTFri, 18 May 2012 23:00:01 +0000 In the line for the free bus from New York to Chicago, which will not only play host to this weekend's Nato summit, but also to a series of Occupy protests, an 18-year-old homeless boy callhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=993460http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=993460USAINDEPENDENTFri, 18 May 2012 23:00:01 +0000 Facebook's first public investors sent its value to $105bn in New York yesterday but there was disappointment that the shares failed to go much higher than their opening price of $38.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=993450http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=993450USANPRSat, 19 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000With NASA's help, SpaceX is trying to send the first commercial spaceship to the International Space Station. The launch was aborted Saturday morning, but there will be another opportunity on http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994121http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994121USAPCWORLDFri, 18 May 2012 01:00:00 +0000Investors will pressure Facebook, the public company, to find new ways of making money from users' personal data. If times get hard, can Facebook do that without endangering user privacy? http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=991456http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=991456USAIBTIMESFri, 18 May 2012 19:08:03 +0000Some blamed the "Kennedy Curse," some pointed to her troubled marriage and others referenced clinical depression. Regardless of the motive, Mary Kennedy's death by suicide shocked the nation. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990949http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990949USAIBTIMESFri, 18 May 2012 16:42:51 +0000New documents released in the Trayvon Martin case showed that George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, shot the 17 year old through the chest, piercing his heart and lung. Zimmerman whttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990965http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990965USAIBTIMESFri, 18 May 2012 14:02:43 +0000Melodee Megia, a former employee at a Las Vegas hotel, was fired from her job for saying "bye bye" instead of "goodbye" while on the phone in August 2011, according to termination documents, bhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990977http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990977USAIBTIMESFri, 18 May 2012 15:09:02 +0000Officials have released hundreds of documents, audio files and photographs, relating to the murder of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990970http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990970USAIBTIMESFri, 18 May 2012 18:49:08 +0000Time to update his Facebook relationship status; Al Gore has a new girlfriend. Former vice president Gore, 64, is dating "serious girlfriend" Elizabeth Keadle. Gore separated from his wife Tiphttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990958http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990958USAIBTIMESSat, 19 May 2012 02:56:54 +0000rance's newly-elected Socialist President Francois Hollande met with U.S. President Barack Obama at Camp David, prior to the G-8 summit meeting.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990919http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990919USAIBTIMESFri, 18 May 2012 18:52:14 +0000President Barack Obama announced Friday a private-public partnership of more than a $3 billion to fight hunger and malnutrition in Africa.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990954http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990954USAIBTIMESFri, 18 May 2012 20:34:18 +0000In a mysterious turn of events, a California woman's shorts ignited after she put a few beach rocks in her pocket.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990935http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990935USAIBTIMESFri, 18 May 2012 20:40:58 +0000After raising a controversial issue that prompted a change in rules, transgender beauty queen Jenna Talackova competed in the 2012 Miss Universe pageant Thursday in Toronto, Canada donning a whttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990931http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=990931USAINDEPENDENTFri, 18 May 2012 23:00:01 +0000 A condemned killer's fight to receive surgery for agonising hip pain has pushed Kentucky officials into an uncomfortable debate over security and politics.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=993453http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=993453USA