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The government of American Samoa was accused of discriminating against older workers, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday by a federal agency.

Hong Kong on Wednesday sought to defuse criticism of a security clampdown during Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang's recent visit that was heavily criticised as excessive and a violation of Hong Kong's civil rights.

The hard-working maids of The Help hung on to the top of a storm-battered box office over the weekend and beat a trio of new releases with $14.3 million in domestic ticket sales, studio estimates released on Sunday showed.

A federal judge temporarily suspended a controversial immigration enforcement law, ruling Monday that she needed more time to weigh lawsuits from the Obama administration, religious groups, and civil rights groups.

The hard-working maids of The Help beat three new releases to win the North American box office on a weekend dampened by Hurricane Irene, according to studio estimates released on Sunday.

Former Vice President Al Gore is convinced that the generations to come will be considering the present skeptics of global warming with the same negative connotation as racists.

President Barack Obama declared August 26 -- the 91st anniversary of the Constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote -- Women's Equality Day in a proclamation on Thursday.

Hurricane Irene charged up the U.S. eastern seaboard on Saturday as a weakening but dangerous storm that shut down New York City and threatened to inflict massive blackouts and flooding.

Hurricane Irene howled ashore in North Carolina on Saturday on a path that triggered evacuations in New York and threatened the densely populated East Coast with flooding and power outages.

Pitbull's handling it in his style. After actress Lindsay Lohan recently sued him over his song Give me everything, Pitbull has invited her over to Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards, where he will be performing the song. Now that is 'Some Big' expectation that the rapper is holding on to.

Hurricane Irene closed in on the east coast on Friday, lashing North Carolina with ferocious winds and triggering emergency steps including unprecedented evacuations and transit shutdowns in New York.

The eastern United States ramped up its alert on Friday ahead of Hurricane Irene and New York City ordered evacuations of vulnerable residents as the broad, menacing storm closed in on the Atlantic coast.

Hurricane Irene promises to ruin everyone's weekend plans, to say the least, and the storm has already started by delaying Sunday's Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial event, pushing the event to September or October.

The United States urged 55 million people on its East Coast on Friday to prepare for the onslaught of massive Hurricane Irene, which President Barack Obama warned could be extremely dangerous and costly.

Hurricane Irene bore down on North Carolina on Friday, tens of thousands of people evacuated and East Coast cities including New York braced for a weekend hit from the powerful storm.

North Carolina braced on Friday for a direct hit from Hurricane Irene, cities along the east coast were on alert and millions of beach goers cut short vacations to escape the powerful storm.

U.S. Atlantic coastal residents from the barrier islands of North Carolina to the capital in Washington and the financial center of New York rushed to prepare on Thursday for an assault by powerful Hurricane Irene.

Martin Luther King's memorial has awed visitors as it opened for a public preview at the National Mall in Washington on Monday ahead of Sunday's official dedication ceremony

A federal judge said that parts of Alabama's new immigration law could be unconstitutional, citing a controversial provision that requires police to check the status of immigrants they detain.

Since 9/11, the New York Police Department has teamed up with the CIA to covertly spy on Muslim communities, according to an investigative piece put out by the Associated Press on Wednesday morning.

Thirty-five percent of Americans surveyed in an August Gallup poll said race relations in the U.S. have improved since President Obama's election, a decline from the 70 percent who predicted it would get better directly after the 2008 election.