United States

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 18:48 UTC

  WikiLeaks Falklands - US concerned about Chavez while UK worried about trade and environmentalists

  

  The American Government kept a close eye on the dispute between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands in 2010. Hitherto secret US State Department communications published by Wikileaks reveal that Secretary of State Hilary Clinton wrote to the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires in early 2010, requesting analysis of the situation, which it was felt had been exacerbated by the British approval to search for oil in the seas off the islands, and by a revitalised and bitter diplomatic offensive by the government of President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner.

• Sunday, January 2nd 2011 - 21:18 UTC

  US immigration target for 2011: 404.000 deportations, includes screening jails

  

  A record number of immigrants were deported from the United States in 2010 boosted in part by the expansion of the Secure Communities program of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which identifies imprisoned undocumented foreigners.

• Thursday, December 30th 2010 - 05:42 UTC

  US withdraws Venezuela envoy's visa

  

  Decision to revoke visa for Venezuela's ambassador to Washington follows rejection of US choice for Caracas.

• Friday, December 24th 2010 - 07:42 UTC

  US census shows West and South gaining the most population and clout

  

  The United States Census Bureau announced that the 2010 Census showed the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2010, was 308,745,538. The resident population represented an increase of 9.7%over the 2000 U.S. resident population of 281,421,906.

• Thursday, December 23rd 2010 - 07:20 UTC

  Hillary Clinton will represent Obama at Rousseff’s inauguration January first

  

  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will head the United States delegation to attend the inauguration of Brazilian president-elect Dilma Rousseff next January first, announced Wednesday the White House.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 - 05:15 UTC

  Ernst & Young accused of helping Lehman Brothers hide financial problems

  

  New York prosecutors sued Ernst & Young, accusing the accounting firm of helping to hide Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's financial problems, the first major government legal action stemming from the Wall Street bank's 2008 downfall.

• Saturday, December 18th 2010 - 08:55 UTC

  Obama signs bipartisan tax-cut bill resisted by hard core Democrats

  

  United States president Barack Obama signed Friday into law an 858 billion US dollars bill extending for two years Bush-era tax cuts to boost a fragile economy and add jobs.

• Thursday, December 16th 2010 - 03:55 UTC

  Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is Time’s Person of the year 2010

  

  The creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has been announced as Time magazine’s person of the year 2010, “for changing how we all live our lives in ways that are innovative and even optimistic”.

• Wednesday, December 15th 2010 - 04:31 UTC

  Fed admits economic recovery too soft to bring down unemployment level

  

  The US economic recovery is still too soft to bring down the country's high level of unemployment, the Federal Reserve warned on Tuesday. The central bank made the comment as it reaffirmed its commitment to continue purchasing 600 billion in bonds to stimulate the economy.

• Wednesday, December 8th 2010 - 07:19 UTC

  Obama defends tax deal with Republicans: “real money for real people”

  

  President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the tentative tax deal he struck with Republicans is a good deal for the American people and a long political fight over tax cuts would have been bad for the US economy.