Full Coverage: United States

30.06.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 30 (OneWorld) - Africans and Americans support United Nations-authorized military intervention to quell serious human rights abuses and violence in Sudan's Darfur and other conflict-wracked regions, said a pair of new polls.

30.06.2005 Students from across the U.S. are spreading the message to global leaders that children everywhere need access to education--and they are taking with them representatives of those who never get a chance to go to school, in the form of cut-outs known as "buddies." Follow the "buddies" on their travels to this week's G8 Summit activities, September's U.N. Summit on the Millennium Goals, and beyond!

30.06.2005 Four Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, in the U.S. for graduate study, describe in half-minute videos their impressions of life in the States and how the experiences they have had will help them bring about positive change in their communities back home.

30.06.2005 Tuesday's Senate passage of the Energy Bill made some progress in setting renewable energy targets, but overall has failed to take any meaningful action to move the U.S. away from its reliance on oil, say energy policy analysts Jeff Rickert and Brian Siu.

30.06.2005 From T-Mobile commercials to the popular TV drama "24," images of torture abound in U.S. pop culture these days. Chalk it up to harmless bits of Hollywood imagination, or a dangerous phenomenon desensitizing Americans to the real life torture and misery taking place at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib?

30.06.2005 U.S. religious leaders have found a common cause: ending global poverty. With their rallying point next week’s G-8 summit, Evangelical, Protestant, and Catholic leaders are pressing President Bush and Congress to boost American leadership and financial commitment to the global campaign to make poverty history--and they are telling their congregations to do the same.

30.06.2005 Friends of the Earth applauds the US House of Representatives for voting to prohibit the US Export-Import Bank from financing nuclear power projects in China.

30.06.2005 On Tuesday, June 27, the US Congress House of Representatives has adopted a resolution demanding that those responsible for the Srebrenica massacre be brought to justice. The US Senate watered down the text of the Resolution the next day.

29.06.2005 U.S. aid to Africa has increased 56 percent since 2000, rather than tripling as Bush has insisted, a new study reveals.

29.06.2005 While the Ten Commandments ruling grabbed the headlines, Monday's Supreme Court decision that police are not required to enforce restraining orders will likely affect the lives of many more Americans--especially vulnerable women and children. Jessica Gonzales brought the case after Colorado police failed to respond to five calls reporting violations by her estranged husband, who then abducted and killed her three children.

29.06.2005 American Indians and Alaska Natives have the highest youth suicide rates in the nation, and in some areas Native American young people are more than ten times as likely to commit suicide than their white counterparts. Many hope that the U.S. Senate's newfound attention to the issue will generate awareness and funding for prevention and education programs.

29.06.2005 "Real news is the news you and I need to keep our freedoms," correspondent and historian Richard Reeves once told a student. Public broadcasting's number one news anchor, Bill Moyers, stands up to those who, with metallic flags on their lapels, are attempting to muzzle the few in American society who are reporting the news rather than the spin.

29.06.2005 A new report by the Brookings Institution shows President Bush has significantly exaggerated the amount of aid his administration has provided to sub-Saharan Africa. With the approaching G8 summit and recent aid commitments made by E.U. nations, Bush is facing increasing pressure to be more cooperative internationally and encourage the efforts of poor countries.

29.06.2005 Uzbekistan’s Andijan massacre has yet to be independently investigated, largely because of Washington infighting; Rumsfeld's Defense Department is blocking an inquiry called for by Rice's State Department, explains veteran jounalist Ahmed Rashid. By doing so, the U.S. is giving Uzbek president Islam Karimov exactly what he wants: dwindling media coverage and a chance to slip off the international agenda.

29.06.2005 Overcrowded classrooms gave birth to the School of Environmental Studies--an alternative high school in a suburban U.S. town. Situated on a 12-acre site at the Minnesota Zoo, students use the zoo and surrounding 3000-acre regional park as classroom and living laboratory, learning from a curriculum geared to making them stewards of the environment.

29.06.2005 Americans make up less than five percent of the world's population but consume more than a quarter of the world's oil--most of which is consumed by gas-guzzling vehicles. American automobiles are the least fuel efficient in the world and Ford's average fuel efficiency today is less than that of the Model T nearly a century ago, says Global Exchange, asking Americans to sign a declaration of independence from oil.

28.06.2005 Radio pirates are walking the plank into the ocean of federal licensing now that the Federal Communications Commission has sanctioned community radio and opened the airwaves to locals broadcasting.

27.06.2005 Renewable energy experts presented the latest products and advances in the alternative energy industry during the Eighth Annual Congressional Expo last week. How much funding will finally emerge for all these forms of renewable energy is still uncertain as the House and Senate must work through the summer to agree on contentious energy legislation.

27.06.2005 A Congressional vote on CAFTA is likely this week. Don't let the mistakes we've learned from NAFTA be repeated with CAFTA, says Global Exchange, offering eight easy ways you can declare independence from trade agreements that profit corporations and marginalize working families.

27.06.2005 With violence in Afghanistan on the rise, the senior United Nations envoy to the country is calling for cooperation between the authorities, international forces and Pakistan's Government to stem the bloodshed and provide hope for lasting stability.