U.S. hits debt ceiling

The U.S. government hit the debt ceiling on Monday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress.
Geithner said he would have to suspend investments in federal retirement funds until Aug. 2 in order to create room for the government to continue borrowing in the debt markets.
The funds will be made whole once the debt limit is increased, Geithner said. "Federal retirees and employees will be unaffected by these actions."
He went on to urge Congress once again to raise the country's legal borrowing limit soon "to protect the full faith and credit of the United States and avoid catastrophic economic consequences for citizens."
Congress, meanwhile, is not showing any signs of budging. Many Republicans and some Democrats say they won't raise it unless Congress and President Obama agree to significant spending cuts and other ways to curb debt.

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Bin Laden was communicating with other terrorists, U.S. official says

Data and documents taken from the compound show that messages from Osama bin Laden did make it out of the compound to other members of al Qaeda, a U.S. official says.
"There are strong indications there is back and forth with other terrorists," the official said.
U.S. officials have said they view the raided compound as the al Qaeda leader's "command and control center" but had not explained before why they believed that to be the case.

people shot and killed in riverwalk

Riverside police are trying to determine why a man with a gun shot two people to death in an upscale neighborhood and then was himself shot by a police officer.
The double-homicide took place this evening in the 11500 block of Trailway Drive in the Riverwalk area of western Riverside, said Riverside police Lt. Guy Toussaint.
Officers received reports of shots fired just before 6 p.m., Toussaint said. When officers arrived minutes later, "an officer-involved shooting occurred, and the suspect was shot," he said. The suspect was taken to a hospital. Toussaint said he expected his condition was serious.
"We don't know what caused the shooting," he said, adding that such an occurrence "would be out of place for a neighborhood like this, out of place for the Riverwalk area. These are very nice homes, this is a very nice neighborhood."
Toussaint said investigators were still trying to determine if the shooter had any relationship to his victims. It was not clear if any of them were residents of the area.
"We're going to be here for many hours," he said of the investigation.

U.S. was prepared to fight Pakistani forces, officials say

The Obama administration had "very detailed contingency plans" for military action against Pakistani forces if they had tried to stop the U.S. attack on Osama bin Laden's compound, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the plan.
Their names are not disclosed because of the sensitive intelligence information involved.

Army Corps battles rising Mississippi from Memphis to New Orleans

Waging war against historic flooding in eight Midwestern and Southern states, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened a spillway north of New Orleans on Monday in an effort to calm the rising Mississippi River.

Bin Laden's death ushers in whirlwind week as clues emerge

he curtain is just beginning to rise on the scope and power of the world's most-wanted terrorist one week after U.S. Navy SEALs killed him during a daring nighttime raid.

Phone call tipped off U.S. to bin Laden compound, source says

A single phone call by Osama bin Laden's trusted courier tipped off U.S. officials to his Pakistan compound, ultimately leading to last week's raid that killed the al Qaeda leader, a senior Pakistani intelligence official told CNN Saturday.

Obama meets bin Laden raiders, promises victory over al Qaeda

President Barack Obama met Friday afternoon with members of the military team responsible for conducting the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, and promised a war-weary nation victory over al Qaeda.

Trove of data found at bin Laden hideout provides first specific alert

With the architect of the September 11, 2001, attacks dead, U.S. commandos in Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound quickly came upon another prize: A trove of hard drives, DVDs and thumb drives that might provide evidence of other al Qaeda operations.
Those materials, seized after bin Laden and four others were killed, have provided the first specific alert to come out of Monday's raid.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a notice tied to rail security Thursday.

Obama won't release bin Laden photos

Obama's decision Wednesday not to release photos of Osama bin Laden after he was killed by U.S. forces is eliciting.

Will bin Laden death image silence doubters or fan flames?

While the White House and the CIA deliberate whether to release a photo of Osama bin Laden's body, there's debate outside the White House on what impact such graphic images might have.
There is a school of thought inside the White House that the photo release is unnecessary because there is "no question" that bin Laden is dead, a senior administration official told CNN's Gloria Borger.

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Terror threat lives beyond bin Laden's death

Sixty-six years ago on May 1, Americans learned Adolf Hitler was finally dead. On May 1, President Barack Obama announced Osama bin Laden was killed. Until Sunday night, no international figure's death had been so sought since 1945.
Since the 1990s, bin Laden had declared war against the United States. By and large, most Americans did not take that declaration seriously until nearly 10 years ago, on that bright September day, made dark by bin Laden and his league of terrorists. But long before bin Laden's declarations and actions, terrorism had been directed against, and afflicted upon, Americans. Bin Laden's death is a welcome victory and much-hoped-for news in our long fight, but it is not the end of the fight.

high school is building a $60 million football stadium

A Texas high school is building a $60 million football stadium, causing mixed reactions. CNN's Mark McKay reports.

Discussion Reflection.

i think the discussion was full of different ideas and different points of view. i could tell some people were strictly against immigrants no matter what others would say to make immigrants look like good help to america there were people that were just against immigrants 100%.
I feel that we should open our eyes and see that this country became this strong and this powerful because of all the immigrants that came from all over the world to settle here and start their businesses.
Immigrants go through a lot to come to this country and make their lives better then what they had in the place they came from there for we should look at the bright side of them and see that they are big help for america, and to the people who said that immigrants are stealing american jobs, is not stealing if they are doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do.
Finally i want to say that just like every good thing there is a bad, and what i mean by this is that i'm not approving all immigrants i think we should only help that once that are willing to learn to speak English, work to pay their taxes and to help this country grow and the only once that should be send back to were they came from are the once who do nothing for this nation.