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Addressing Negative Thoughts Most Effective In Fighting Loneliness: Study
4:11 am Eastern | SciTech
Changing how a person perceives and thinks about others was the most effective intervention for loneliness, a sweeping analysis of previous research has determined.read more »
Decline in U.S. Adult Smoking Rate Stalled
3:56 am Eastern | USA News
Despite the known dangers of tobacco use, 1 in 5 American adults continues to smoke cigarettes, and 4 in 10 nonsmokers were exposed to cigarette smoke during 2007-2008, according to reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. read more »
Asteroids Will Make Earth Near Miss Wednesday Says NASA
3:29 am Eastern | USA News
NASA says two asteroids discovered just three days ago will pass within the moon's distance from Earth on Wednesday, with one coming as close as 49,000km.read more »
Press Releases: Remarks at the Annual State Department Iftar
10:00 pm Eastern | US Politics and Govt
Remarks at the Annual State Department Iftar Hillary Rodham ClintonSecretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC September 7, 2010read more »
The Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill
7:48 pm Eastern | USA News
DATE: September 7, 2010 4:33:52 PM PDT
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7:10 pm Eastern | USA News
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2010 holiday greetings teams ready to travel read more »Daily Press Briefings : Daily Press Briefing - September 7, 2010
6:06 pm Eastern | USA News
Philip J. Crowley Assistant SecretaryDaily Press Briefing Washington, DC September 7, 2010 INDEX:DEPARTMENTread more »
FEMA Authorizes Funds To Help Fight Four Mile Canyon Fire In Boulder County
7 Sep 17:18 | USA News
DENVER, Colo. -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security?s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Four Mile Canyon Fire in Boulder County. The fire is burning on state and private land in the Gold Hill area.
read more »Disaster Assistance May Include Free Legal Services
7 Sep 17:18 | USA News
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- If the recent severe storms and flooding left you entangled in a legal issue, free Disaster Legal Services may be able to help.
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7 Sep 16:10 | USA News
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- If the recent severe storms and flooding left you entangled in a legal issue, free Disaster Legal Services may be able to help.read more »
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, 9/7/2010
7 Sep 15:56 | US Politics and Govt
12:16 P.M. EDT MR. GIBBS: Yes, ma’am. Good afternoon. Q Good afternoon. Robert, there’s a church in Gainesville, Florida, that says it’s going to go ahead and burn copies of the Koran to mark the 9/11 anniversary. Is the White House -- is there anything the White House is doing to discourage that or prevent them from going ahead with that? MR. GIBBS: Well, look, I think the best place to look for the views of this administration would be to look at the -- look at what General Petraeus said over the weekend. We know that that type of activity -- we know that that type of activity is being transmitted back to places like Afghanistan, when General Petraeus obviously is our lead commander. As he said, it puts our troops in harm’s way. And obviously that -- any type of activity like that would be -- that puts our troops in hread more »
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7 Sep 15:33 | USA News
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Personality Predicts Cheating More Than Academic Struggles, Study Shows
7 Sep 14:50 | SciTech
Students who cheat in high school and college are highly likely to fit the profile for subclinical psychopathy, a personality disorder defined by erratic lifestyle, manipulation, callousness and antisocial tendencies, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. read more »
Some Items High In Heavy Metals Still On The Market: Consumer Reports
7 Sep 14:48 | USA News
Consumer Reports' latest tests of 30 children's and household products found three items containing worrisome levels of heavy metals.read more »
McDonald's At The Bottom Of Consumer Reports Burger Ratings
7 Sep 14:43 | USA News
McDonald's may have served billions of burgers, but according to a recent survey of 28,000 Consumer Reports' subscribers, they fall at the bottom of the list among fast-food restaurants. read more »
First U.S. Advise and Assist Brigade Arrives In Iraq Under New Dawn
7 Sep 14:25 | USA News
The first brigade of U.S. soldiers to deploy exclusively in support of Operation New Dawn has arrived in southern Iraq.read more »
Former Treasurer of NRCC Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Funds
7 Sep 14:05 | USA News
Christopher J. Ward, 41, formerly of Bethesda, Maryland, has pleaded guilty to interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with a scheme to defraud the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and other political committees which were clients of his accounting and consulting business. read more »
BP To Fund Study of Health Issues Relating To Gulf Oil Spill
7 Sep 13:58 | USA News
BP says it is providing $10 million to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under its Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GRI) to support a study of potential public health issues relating to the Gulf oil spill.read more »
200,000 Iraqis To Benefit From Newly Opened Fish Market
7 Sep 13:45 | USA News
US forces in Iraq have built and opened a new fish market which is expected to serve hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.read more »
EPA News Release (HQ): EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grants Awarded
7 Sep 13:13 | USA News
September 7, 2010
EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grants Awarded read more »All Operational Hard Boom Removed from Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle
7 Sep 12:27 | USA News
DATE: September 7, 2010 9:10:29 AM PDT
All Operational Hard Boom Removed from Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandleread more »Water News (Region 5): EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to Announce Great Lakes Grants in Green Bay Today (Correction in dollar amount to Brown County)
7 Sep 10:44 | USA News
Release date: 09/07/2010
Media Contact: Anne Rowan, rowan.anne@epa.gov read more »Water News (Region 5): EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to Announce Great Lakes Grants in Green Bay Today
7 Sep 10:33 | USA News
Release Date: 09/07/2010
Media Contact: Anne Rowan, rowan.anne@epa.gov read more »Discovery Ready for Wednesday Morning Move
7 Sep 10:04 | USA News
Mounted atop a specialized transporter, space shuttle Discovery is all set for a short drive Wednesday morning to the Vehicle Assembly Building where it will be joined to a waiting set of two solid rocket boosters and a fuel tank. The move, known as "rollover" to the NASA Kennedy Space Center community of space workers, is slated to begin at 6:30 a.m. when Discovery is carefully backed out of Orbiter Processing Facility-3. The 76-wheeled transport will then truck the spacecraft across a wide,read more »
Disaster Recovery Center Opens In Story County
7 Sep 09:04 | USA News
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- A federal/state Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) in Story County will open Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9 a.m. to assist individuals, households and businesses affected by Iowa?s recent storms and flooding.
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7 Sep 08:17 | USA News
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- A federal/state Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) in Story County will open Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9 a.m. to assist individuals, households and businesses affected by Iowas recent storms and flooding.read more »
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
7 Sep 00:00 | USA News
Homeland Security Threat Level: YELLOW (ELEVATED) Significant National Weather West Scattered rain is likely over parts of the Northwest through Wednesday as an upper level low moves from the Northwest southward to northern California and northeastward into the Northern Rockies/Northern Intermountain region by Wednesday.MidwestThe Upper Mississippi Valley southward to the Southern Plains/Rockies will see showers and thunderstorms ahead of a cold front while the Northern Plains to the Upper Great Lakes will see light to moderate rain. Tropical Storm Hermine will bring moderate rain with embedded thunderstorms over the western Gulf Coast into the Southern Plains and parts of the Middle Mississippi Valley through Wednesday.Northeast The region should be dry except for some showers from the Great Lakes to northern New England and northern New York. Temperatread more »
SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 644 Status Reports
6 Sep 23:30 | USA News
WW 0644 Status Reports STATUS REPORT ON WW 644 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 35 WNW DBQ TO 40 NNW VOK. ..STOPPKOTTE..09/07/10 ATTN...WFO...ARX...MKX... STATUS REPORT FOR WS 644 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS WIC001-023-043-049-057-065-081-103-111-123-070440- WI . WISCONSIN COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ADAMS CRAWFORD GRANT IOWA JUNEAU LAFAYETTE MONROE RICHLAND SAUK VERNON THE WATCH STATUS MESSAGE IS FOR GUIDANCE PURPOSES ONLY. PLEASE REFER TO WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION STATEMENTS FOR OFFICIAL INFORMATION ON COUNTIES...INDEPENDENT CITIES Aread more »
Photo of the Day: August 2010
6 Sep 18:25 | US Politics and Govt
Regular visitors are probably familiar with the Photo of the Day, a special pick selected by Pete Souza and the White House Photo Office daily. But you may not have realized that each one is loaded up as part of a gallery for that month, and as it turns out, looking back through the photos of the day is a pretty interesting way to recap the month. The gallery for August is below -- President Obama talks with soliders at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas as the combat mission in Iraq comes to a close; tours a new housing development in New Orleans, Louisiana five years after Hurricane Katrina; signs Elena Kagan's commission in the Oval Office before celebrating read more »
The Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill
6 Sep 17:47 | USA News
DATE: September 6, 2010 2:33:02 PM PDT
The Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spillread more »Remarks by the President at Laborfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
6 Sep 17:38 | US Politics and Govt
2:11 P.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Milwaukee! (Applause.) Hello, Milwaukee! (Applause.) Thank you. It is good to be back in Milwaukee. It is good to be -- I’m almost home. (Applause.) I just hop on the 94 and I’m home. (Applause.) Take it all the way to the South Side. It is good -- it is good to be here on such a beautiful day. Happy Labor Day, everybody. (Applause.) I want to say thank you to the Milwaukee Area Labor Council and all of my brothers and sisters in the AFL-CIO for inviting me to spend this day with you -- (applause) -- a day that belongs to the working men and women of America. I want to acknowledge your outstanding national president, a man who knows that a strong economy needs a strong labor movement: Rich Trumka. (Applause.) Thank you to the president of Wisconsin AFL-CIO Dave Newby. (Applause.) Our host, your area Labor Council Sread more »
Union Jobs Disappearing At Local, State And National Levels, Study Finds
6 Sep 14:57 | USA News
The recession is finally taking its toll on national, state and local unionization rates, according to UCLA's annual report on organized labor. read more »
Obama Seeks $50 Billion For Transport Infrastructure Upgrade
6 Sep 14:56 | USA News
President Barack Obama has announced he will seek $50 billion from Congress to expand and renew America's roads, railways and runways.read more »
Background on the President’s Remarks Today at Milwaukee Laborfest
6 Sep 11:12 | US Politics and Govt
REMARKS AT 2010 MILWAUKEE LABORFEST Henry Maier Festival Park 2:10 PM CDT Today, President Barack Obama will announce a comprehensive infrastructure plan to expand and renew our nation’s roads, railways and runways at the annual Milwaukee Area Labor Council Laborfest, an event sponsored by the Milwaukee Area Labor Council and affiliate unions. Laborfest is open to the general public, the speaking program will be ticketed, with most tickets distributed to union members and their families. Pre-Program speakers and elected officials expected to attend are listed below. PRE-PROGRAM Milwaukee Area Labor Council Secretary-Treasurer Sheila Cochran Congresswoman Gwen Moore Mayor Tom Barrett Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis EXPECTED TO ATTEND Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Dave Newby read more »
President Obama to Announce Plan to Renew and Expand America’s Roads, Railways and Runways
6 Sep 08:29 | US Politics and Govt
Infrastructure investments one key way to continue recovery and keep our economy growing WASHINGTON – Today in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, President Barack Obama will announce a comprehensive infrastructure plan to expand and renew our nation’s roads, railways and runways. This proposal is among a set of targeted initiatives that the President will outline in Cleveland on Wednesday to support our economic recovery and ensure long-term sustainable growth. The plan builds upon the infrastructure investments the President has already made through the Recovery Act, includes principles the President put forth during the campaign, and emphasizes American competitiveness and innovation. A fact sheet on the President’s plan announced today is below. FACT SHEET: Renewing and Expanding America’s Roads, Railways, and Runways The President today laid out a bold vision for renewing and expandinread more »
FBI Offers Reward For Information On Mosque Site Arson
5 Sep 13:56 | USA News
The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the person/persons responsible for committing arson at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.read more »
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The Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill
3 Sep 17:43 | USA News
DATE: September 3, 2010 2:40:31 PM PDT
The Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spillread more »BP Removes Damaged Blow Out Preventer From Oil Well
3 Sep 15:56 | USA News
BP has removed the damaged Blow Out Preventer (BOP) from its position atop the cemented Macondo 252 well in the Gulf of Mexico.read more »
FEMA Photo Library Update, hurricane prep
3 Sep 15:46 | USA News
You are subscribed to Photo Library for FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency). This information has recently been updated, and is now available http://service.govdelivery.com/service/view.html?code=USDHSFEMA_3.
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FEMA Disaster Registration Phone Lines And Recovery Centers Open Labor Day
3 Sep 15:07 | USA News
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Telephone registration and Disaster Recovery Centers will be open Labor Day weekend, according to state and federal officials.
read more »Children Who Eat Vended Snack Foods Face Chronic Health Problems
3 Sep 15:04 | SciTech
School children who consume foods purchased in vending machines are more likely to develop poor diet quality and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease, according to research from the University of Michigan Medical School.read more »
Americans Struggle With Long-Term Weight Loss
3 Sep 14:58 | SciTech
Only about one in every six Americans who have ever been overweight or obese loses weight and maintains that loss, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. read more »
FEMA Disaster Registration Phone Lines And Recovery Centers Open Labor Day
3 Sep 14:50 | USA News
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Telephone registration and Disaster Recovery Centers will be open Labor Day weekend, according to state and federal officials.read more »
Red Cross Responds to Hurricane Earl Along the Atlantic Coast
3 Sep 14:38 | USA News
The American Red Cross is responding with help to people affected by the winds, rains and flooding of Hurricane Earl in North Carolina and is ready as the storm moves up the Atlantic Coast.read more »
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 4: Water News Releases Update: EPA Complies with Court Decision and Directs Florida to Restore Water Quality in the Everglades
3 Sep 13:51 | USA News
*EPA Complies with Court Decision and Directs Florida to Restore Water Quality in the Everglades*
read more »MEDIA ADVISORY: NOAA Fisheries Conference Call to Announce Reopening Federal Waters off Florida Panhandle
3 Sep 13:05 | USA News
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Report oiled shoreline or request volunteer information: (866) 448-5816 read more »Imagine H2O Launches 'X-Prize' for Water Innovation
3 Sep 12:14 | USA News
Water. Most Americans think nothing of it. Turn on the faucet and we expect clean water to flow under good pressure at the temperature of our choosing. But to make all that happen, water requires energy and lots of it. A full 3 percent of electrical power generation is used to treat, pump and distribute water in the U.S. (to say nothing of heating it). And in California, that figure is as high asread more »