Latest North America News
RSS-
More storms tornadoes expected in central United States
Mon May 20, 2013 7:47am EDT May 20 (Reuters) - Violent thunderstorms were forecast to hit the central United States on Monday, threatening to bring additional hail, heavy rain and tornadoes to the region stricken by a deadly twister during the weekend. The National Weather Service said severe storms would hit the Ozarks and the middle Mississippi Valley, with the greatest risk in northwest ...
-
Tornadoes slam Plains Midwest 1 dead in Okla. violent weather expected today
SHAWNEE, Okla. -- Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community she called ...
-
Video Jon Stewart - the new Voice of America in China
© Thomson Reuters 2012. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Thomson Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters is not liable for any errors or delays in Thomson Reuters content, or for any actions taken in reliance on such content. 'Thomson Reuters' and the Thomson ...
More North America News
RSS-
Obama-Backed FSA Rebels Name Their Brigade “Osama Bin Laden”
Prison Planet.com May 20, 2013 Underlining once again how the White House is openly seeking to arm terrorists in Syria, video has emerged of one of the FSA rebel groups referring to their unit as the ';Osama Bin Laden'; ...
-
Canada Tries To Poach High-Tech Workers From The U.S.
Alongside a freeway in Northern California is a billboard which reads: Pivot to Canada. The billboard is urging high-tech immigrants living in the U.S. to pay attention to Canada. Canada wants to attract highly-skilled, foreign-born tech workers who are fed up with the visa process that they must follow to remain in the ...
-
Poll Despite scandals Obama’s approval ratings remains unscathed
Top talkers: The Morning Joe panel discusses the latest CNN/ORC poll which shows President Barack Obama's approval rating has held steady at 53 percent. Robert Gibbs says he thinks Obama's approval ratings are largely unchanged. NBC's Peter Alexander joins to discuss how the White House should begin this new week. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough also expresses his doubt that ...
-
What happened to Obamas promise
>Editor's note: Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" and "Governing America. " Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- On "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart captured the frustration that many of President Obama's supporters have felt over the past week as one scandal after another cascaded into the White House. After ...
-
Obama schedule for Monday May 20
TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 20 (UPI) -- An investigation into the killing by the Philippines coast guard of a Taiwanese fisherman is focusing on whether rules of engagement were ...
-
RPT-INSIGHT-The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill
Mon May 20, 2013 6:59am EDT By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES May 20 (Reuters) - In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a hydrogen-powered metallic blue Hummer loaned to him by General Motors Corp. The "California Hydrogen Highway," Schwarzenegger's vision to ensure that every ...
-
HM mulling production in S. America Africa CEO
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Swedish fashion giant H&M is considering starting production in South America and Africa, chief executive Karl-Johan Persson told the Financial Times in an interview published on Monday."When that part of the world is growing, which it is, it becomes even more interesting to look at production in South America or Central America. So, we are exploring that opportunity ...
-
Amalric plays a Frenchman in America in Jimmy P
In this photo taken Sunday, May 19, 2013, actor Mathieu Amalric poses for photographs following an interview with The Associated Press at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. Amalric depicts a maverick academic counseling Benicio Del Toro's Native American war vet in "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian," director Arnaud Desplechin's Cannes ...
-
Obamas newest ally John McCain
President Barack Obama has an important new ally as emboldened Republicans work to derail his agenda: John McCain.The shift is striking: The 2008 rivals never got along throughout Obama’s first term in office. McCain has been Obama’s chief tormentor on issues ranging from the budget to Benghazi, tartly saying in late 2010 that the two men had "no ...
-
Video Wife caught cheating and lover jumps out window
20 May 2013 This viral from Brazil, showing a half-naked man climbing out of a window and jumping to escape his lover's husband, has spread like ...
-
Where Was Obama on Night of Benghazi Attack Presidents Senior Adviser Ducks and Dodges
President Barack Obama with White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer. (AP File Photo/Charles Dharapak) (CNSNews.com) - President Obama "was kept up to date" on the terror attack in Benghazi "throughout the entire night, from the moment it started until the very end," the president's senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told "Fox News Sunday." But repeatedly pressed for ...
-
Obama and Nixon Scandals Nothing New Under the Sun
There is nothing new under the sun, wrote Solomon after squeezing out all the novelty in living that he could. The alleged Obama Administration scandals prove ...
-
Obama administration cracks down on leaks
The Obama administration has set in motion 6 criminal prosecutions related to information leaking, more than any previous administration. NBC's Michael Isikoff ...
-
GDP growth in 1Q13 tops expectations in Mexico
GDP growth in Mexico in the first quarter came out above our expectations, but still registered a 2.2% YoY growth rate, the lowest since 2009. Meanwhile, in Colombia, March manufacturing and retail numbers produced a mixed picture, although we expect a decisive recovery in April. Today all eyes will be on 1Q13 growth in Chile, expected to show a slowdown in domestic ...
-
Canadian Tire forgoes BYOD issues BlackBerries to workers
Computerworld - Bucking the BYOD trend, Canadian Tire is issuing BlackBerry Q10 and Z10 smartphones to its corporate employees. An overwhelming majority of the Toronto-based company's 3,000 corporate users requested the Q10, which features a physical qwerty keyboard, as a replacement for older Bold or Curve devices, said CTO Eugene Roman. But some said they preferred the Z10, which has a ...
-
Obama campaign launches Romney counter attack
AFP - President Barack Obama’s team ripped into Republican Mitt Romney’s big convention speech on Friday, complaining it lacked a governing vision and disguised plans to punish the middle class.As dust settled from the Republican National Convention in Florida, the president’s team switched their focus to their own nominating jamboree next week, at which Obama must persuade ...
-
Obama cheers on grads at Morehouse College
U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to receive an honorary degree after delivering the commencement address to graduating students at Morehouse College in Atlanta, May 19, 2013. UPI/David ...
-
Press Digest-canada-may 20
Mon May 20, 2013 6:10am EDT May 20 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. THE GLOBE AND MAIL * Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff has resigned over his role in the C$90,000 ($87,600) bailout of former Conservative Senator Mike Duffy's expense account. Nigel ...
-
Press Digest-canada-may 20
Mon May 20, 2013 6:10am EDT May 20 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. THE GLOBE AND MAIL * Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff has resigned over his role in the C$90,000 ($87,600) bailout of former Conservative Senator Mike Duffy's expense account. Nigel ...
-
Press Digest-canada-may 20
Mon May 20, 2013 6:10am EDT May 20 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. THE GLOBE AND MAIL * Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff has resigned over his role in the C$90,000 ($87,600) bailout of former Conservative Senator Mike Duffy's expense account. Nigel ...
-
Press Digest-canada-may 20
Mon May 20, 2013 6:10am EDT May 20 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. THE GLOBE AND MAIL * Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff has resigned over his role in the C$90,000 ($87,600) bailout of former Conservative Senator Mike Duffy's expense account. Nigel ...
-
Sorry hockey fans. Canada’s NHL woes can’t be blamed on the loonie
As we gaze upon another Stanley Cup playoffs with the sad, forlorn eyes of a nation whose teams are mostly already eliminated, we have to wonder how the elusive hand of economics has deceived us once again.Of the seven National Hockey League teams based in Canada, only four made the playoffs at all. After a couple of first-round defeats, the Ottawa Senators are now the lone Canadian team still ...
North America Feature
-
North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
News from around our Network
