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29th day of 2011 - 336 remaining Saturday, January 29, 2011 FIELDS DAY “Ah, yes...” On this day in 1880, William Claude Dukenfield was born. He became one of the most celebrated comics and actors in the U.S., starting his career as a vaudeville juggler, then spending several decades on the...

-- Less than a week after Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Washington, senior diplomats from China and the United States sat down in Beijing Friday to follow up on the visit and discuss other issues. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg met with Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo...

-- The U.S. Embassy in Uganda is warning its citizens in the east African nation that regional terror groups "remain actively interested in attacking" American interests. "We are particularly concerned about the month of February," the embassy, based in the capital, Kampala, said in a...

NEW YORK -- A judge sentenced the first Guantanamo detainee to have a U.S. civilian trial to life in prison Tuesday, saying anything he suffered at the hands of the CIA and others "pales in comparison to the suffering and the horror" caused by the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998...

-- New documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show "unjustified homicide" of detainees and concerns about the condition of confinement in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, according to the ACLU. Thousands of documents detailing the deaths of 190 U.S...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/01/19/taylor.china.students.to.us.cnn -- Linda Shuo Zhang stands at the welcoming table for transfer and visiting international students enrolling at college this spring semester. "Hi, I'm Linda", she says extending out her arm introducing herself to the...

Pastory Terry Jones was denied entry into Britain on Wednesday. - Britain has denied entry to the Florida pastor who said last year that he was "praying about" whether to burn Qurans to protest the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "The government opposes extremism in all its forms which...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/01/19/exp.sot.obama.hu.presser.cnn -- The Chinese economy continued its breakneck growth in 2010, expanding by 10.3%, according to government figures released Thursday. Last year China's economic output eclipsed Japan to become the world's second...

-- A former aide to Bernard Madoff, who faces charges related to Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court for a pre-trial hearing Friday. Annette Bongiorno, 62, will appear before U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who reduced her bail from $5 million to...

-- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that the presence of American forces in Japan is critical to meet security challenges in Asia amid the tension in the Korean Peninsula. "To deal with this century's critical challenges, critical component will remain the forward presence of...

12th day of 2011 - 353 remaining Wednesday, January 12, 2011 AMOS ’N’ ANDY DAY Sam ’n’ Henry debuted on WGN Radio in Chicago, Illinois. It was 1926. The show’s name was soon changed to Amos ’n’ Andy and the voices of its creators, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll played to Depression-era...

-- U.S. troops will stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014 if Afghans want them to, Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday. President Barack Obama has announced plans to begin withdrawing some troops from Afghanistan this July, with all U.S. combat troops scheduled to be out of Afghanistan by 2014...

11th day of 2011 - 354 remaining Tuesday, January 11, 2011 GENTLE BEN DAY Texans are always ready to boast about their native sons. Well, on this date in 1952, another soon-to-be-famous Texan was born. Ben D. Crenshaw came into the world at Austin, Texas. As he grew up, he took naturally to the...

A Chinese honor guard stands to attention during a welcoming ceremony for U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates held talks with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Monday on the first stop of his weeklong trip to Asia. It is Gates' second visit to...

http://www.fox13now.com/videobeta/a749e20d-3db3-4440-ac52-38823cb46fd2/News/Dignitaries-bury-shovels-to-begin-construction-of-Utah-cyber-spy-center CAMP WILLIAMS, Utah — A groundbreaking was held Thursday for a new National Security Agency data center at Camp Williams. The center is officially...

The last remaining active player from the U.S. team that won the inaugural women's soccer World Cup in 1991 - and the youngest and oldest woman to score for America - has called it a career. Kristine Lilly, 39, has retired with 352 appearances for her national team, by far a world record for...

China is still years away from being able to field a stealth aircraft, despite the disclosure of images indicating that it appears to have a working prototype, Pentagon officials said on Wednesday. The images have been posted on a number of websites and were published on the front page of...

54 mins ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Libya has found his job in limbo after revelations in U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks drew complaints from the government of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Ambassador Gene Cretz has returned to Washington for...

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano arrived in Afghanistan Friday and planned to spend New Year's Eve with U.S. troops in the region. "It is an honor to meet with our dedicated military and civilian men and women who are helping to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan, and I thank...

The loonie surpassed parity with the U.S. dollar on Tuesday The Canadian dollar surpassed parity with the U.S. dollar on Tuesday, the first time it had accomplished the feat in more than a month. Early in the morning, the loonie surged to hit $1 US, the first time the Canadian currency had...