United States current events

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United States News can be found here (Associated Press feed provided by newsday.com) and at Wikinews.

2005-11-06 (Sunday)

• A tornado rips through southern Indiana and northwestern Kentucky in the early morning hours, causing as many as 22 deaths and 230 injuries. (CNN)

2005-11-04

• Gene Robinson, the first openly gay U.S. ordained Episcopalian bishop describes Pope Benedict XVI's response to the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal by placing restrictions on gay clergy: "an act of violence that needs to be confronted." He delivered the speech to a standing ovation at St Martin-in-the-Fields church, in Trafalgar Square. Robinson's appointment has contributed to an open schism in the Anglican Communion. YahooABC

2005-11-03 (Thursday)

• The United States Department of Health and Human Services are predicting that 2 million people in the United States could die from an expected influenza pandemic. (Reuters) (Health and Human Services)

2005-08-17 (Wednesday)

• Ohio Governor Bob Taft is charged with four misdemeanors for failing to disclose golf trips paid for by others. He is the first Ohio governor charged with a crime while in office. (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

2005-08-01 (Monday)

• President of the United States George W. Bush announced that he was appointing John R. Bolton to the position of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. (Wikinews)

July 9, 2005 (Saturday)

• A bill to resume normal government operation is approved in Minnesota, giving the Minnesota Legislature until July 14 to approve a budget. (Star Tribune)

July 8, 2005 (Friday)

• Hurricane Dennis, the first hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, approaches Cuba. It is heading towards the Gulf Coast of the United States, with landfall expected on Sunday or Monday. (NOAA) (Wikinews)
• Florida Governor Jeb Bush closes the inquiry into the case of Terri Schiavo, having been informed by prosecutors that there is no evidence of any crime leading to her 1990 collapse. (Reuters)

July 7, 2005 (Thursday)

• The United States raises the terror level from code yellow to code orange for mass transit systems in response to the London bombings. (Guardian)

July 6, 2005 (Wednesday)

• New York Times reporter Judith Miller is jailed for refusing to divulge her source in an investigation around the leak of a CIA operative's name. (CNN) (New York Times)

July 5, 2005 (Tuesday)

• The United Church of Christ becomes the first mainline Christian denomination to officially support same-sex marriages by passing a resolution calling for member churches to consider wedding policies "that do not discriminate against couples based on gender." (United Church of Christ)

July 2, 2005 (Saturday)

• On the McLaughlin Group program on MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell claims to have known that the identity of Matthew Cooper's source in the Valerie Plame scandal was Karl Rove. (Huffington Post)

July 1, 2005 (Friday)

• Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the United States Supreme Court, announces her retirement 24 years after being appointed to the court by Ronald Reagan.NYTimes.com)
• The Minnesota Legislature fails to pass a budget by the end of the fiscal year, resulting in a partial shutdown of the government. (Bloomberg)
• General Motors Corp. announces that its sales increased by 41% from June 2004 to June 2005. (GM website)

News collections and sources

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• Wikipedia:News sources - This has much of the same material organised in a hierarchical manner to help encourage NPOV in our news reporting.

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