Category:North America
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This is the category for the North America news region. Our news regions often approximate, but do not precisely follow, the traditional boundaries of the continents. North America, as a continent, is part of the Americas landmass, and is north of Central America and South America, and is considered separate from both by sociopolitical features. Latest storiesRefresh this list to see the latest articles.
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This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.
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- Volkswagen emissions scandal (3 articles)
Pages in category "North America"
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- "A commonsense proposal": Wikinews interviews Michelle Tilley, Campaign Director for Yes on 820
- "Children of Men" wins Scripter Award for writing
- "City Slickers" actor, Jack Palance, dies
- "Friday the 13" Buffalo, New York snow storm in pictures
- "Halo 3" creates new opening day record
- "Last Lecture" Professor Randy Pausch dies at age 47
- "Lost" actress Elizabeth Mitchell cast in ABC's "V" pilot
- "Low pathogenic" H5N1 Bird Flu virus found in wild ducks in Maryland and Pennsylvania
- "Massive" oil spill in Alaska
- "Miracle on the Hudson" pilot retires
- "Prada", "Illusionist" among screen adaptations up for USC Scripter
- "Shock jock" Howard Stern makes his satellite radio debut
- "Shrinking Cities" debuts in Detroit, Michigan
- "Sunshine", "Queen" in the spotlight as 79th Annual Academy Award nominations announced
- "Ten Commandments" judge loses Alabama gubernatorial primary
- "The Simpsons Movie" hits theatres July 2007
- "Toxic soup" scenario in New Orleans unlikely
- "Twilight" DVD sells 3 million copies in first day
- "Virtual fence" along US-Mexico border scrapped
- "Woofstock" dog festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- '42-year detour' ends: Garrison Keillor homeward bound
- 'Afghanistan is a 20-year venture' warns Canadian general
- 'America’s Toughest Sheriff' to endorse Rick Perry for U.S. President
- 'Apple's data is dirtiest,' says Greenpeace
- 'Banana Joe' wins Westminster
- 'Bigfoot' hunters claim to have found corpse of mythical creature in Georgia, USA
- 'Birther King' announces 2016 campaign for U.S. president
- 'Bright' idea lights its way to win NASA contest
- 'Conference of the Americas' announced for 2008
- 'Crown Fire' forces residents in Southern California to evacuate homes
- 'Da Vinci Code' opens in theaters, sparks controversy
- 'Davos man' versus 'Camp Igloo'; 42nd World Economic Forum convenes in Swiss alps
- 'Dewey Defeats Truman' incident in California State Senate election
- 'Dr Death' Steve Williams, American professional wrestler, dies aged 49
- 'Each makes the other more difficult to recover from': University of Sussex professor L. Alan Winters speaks to Wikinews on trade, COVID-19, Brexit
- 'Earned It' earns The Weeknd his first Grammy
- 'Earth-based life can survive in hydrogen-rich atmospheres': MIT professor Dr Seager tells Wikinews about her research on organisms thriving in oxygen-less environment
- 'Electra'-fying competition faces 'Fockers'
- 'Expelled' fair use upheld
- 'Explosive' Haitian cholera outbreak kills 292, neighboring countries prepare
- 'Fascinating' and 'provocative' research examines genetic elements of bipolar, schizophrenia
- 'Freedom Tower' renamed '1 World Trade Center'
- 'Gouge' found on wing of Space Shuttle Endeavour
- 'Guiding Light' to flicker out after 72 years on radio, TV
- 'Homer Simpson' contributes to U.S. presidential candidate Buddy Roemer
- 'Hunger Games' salute used to protest coup d'état in Thailand
- 'Jelly bellies' memo costs Florida police chief his job
- 'Jesus Camp' shuts down
- 'Kane' still tops but many changes underneath on American Film Institute's '100'
- 'Mega Millions' lottery nears record high in US
- 'Miss New York' Kira Kazantsev wins Miss America 2015 pageant
- 'Naked Guy' Andrew Martinez dies
- 'Net Neutrality Amendment' fails in U.S. House
- 'Noise' takes on 'Fockers' in weekend box office race
- 'Not guilty' plea from Abdulmutallab on Detroit jet bombing charges
- 'Outraged' LaHood unveils plans to tackle fatigued U.S. air traffic controllers
- 'Pregnancy pact' grabs international attention for small Massachusetts town
- 'Sahara' opens as top film in U.S., Canada
- 'Scooter' Libby jail sentence commuted by US President George Bush
- 'Serious' terror threat in Mumbai; police hunt four suspected militants
- 'Star Wars' headed to TV as weekly series
- 'Suspicious' package closes half of Washington Dulles Airport terminal
- 'The Gates' opens in New York City
- 'Top Model' winner CariDee English on her modeling career and her battle with psoriasis
- 'Troopergate' investigation finds Palin abused her power
- 'Twin Towers' warship set to enter New York
- 'World' stops turning for longest-running US soap opera
- 'Worst song of all time' becomes YouTube sensation
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- 1,100 evacuated due to massive Halifax brush fire
- 10 American soldiers killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan
- 10-year-old boy missing after car gets carjacked
- 10-year-old Oklahoma girl found murdered
- 100th annual East Texas State Fair opens
- 109th Boston marathon takes place
- 11 killed in Mexican military helicopter crash
- 11-month old baby finds illegal drugs in playground in British Columbia, Canadian police report
- 11-year-old California girl charged for throwing stone in defense
- 112 year old joke fools political activists and the Associated Press
- 113th United States Congress convenes
- 118th United States Congress convenes; House of Representatives adjourns without electing Speaker for first time in 100 years
- 12 coal miners are found dead, 1 in critical condition, in West Virginia mine
- 12 dead following police raid of Mexican night club
- 12 injured after van carrying church group flips over on Buffalo, NY expressway
- 13 coal miners trapped in West Virginia mine
- 13th Annual Beverly Hills film festival opens
- 14,000-acre Southern California 'Crown Fire' at 82% containment, evacuation orders lifted
- 14,500 job cuts announced by Hewlett-Packard
- 15 Royal Navy sailors captured at gunpoint by Iranian guards
- 168-centimetre water main breaks near Washington D.C.
- 17 arrested in Canadian counter-terrorism operation
- 17 troops killed in bombing on Afghanistan-Pakistan border; Separate bombing kills dozens of civilians
- 18 dead after multiple twisters strike US Midwest
- 18 Motorcyclists killed during Bike Week
- 18-year US media ban on covering return of fallen soldiers lifted
- 18-year-old charged for Thanksgiving lesbian assault
- 1960s Rockabilly music artist Terry Teen dies aged 70
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- 2-year-old dies in car in 100ºF heat with windows rolled up
- 20 injured in Montreal college shooting spree
- 20 years on: Sioux City, Iowa remembers crash landing that killed 111
- 20,000 Californian state workers may lose their jobs
- 20,000 South Koreans take to the streets to protest APEC
- 20-horse field for Derby dash
- 200 yard spider web found in Lake Tawakoni State Park, East Texas
- 2005 Afghan opium harvest begins
- 2005/01/19 Pacific Northwest soaked with "Tropical Punch"
- 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry for insight into cells
- 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to American scientists
- 2006 Nobel Prize in physics awarded for microwave map of the universe
- 2006 Oscars handed out at Kodak Theatre
- 2006 record heat wave moves across U.S. eastern seaboard
- 2006 U.S. Congressional Elections
- 2007 FIFA U17 World Cup: Germany eliminates Americans; sets up England quarter final
- 2007 Ig Nobel Prize winners announced
- 2007 MuchMusic Video Award People's Choice nominees announced
- 2007 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Brackets
- 2007 Rugby World Cup: Argentina and France qualify for quarter finals
- 2007 Rugby World Cup: Fiji, Tonga and France win
- 2007 Rugby World Cup: Georgia claim first World Cup victory
- 2007 Rugby World Cup: Scotland and Fiji qualify for quarter finals
- 2008 Canadian Championship: Toronto FC vs. Montreal Impact
- 2008 G8 summit launched in Hokkaido, Japan
- 2008 GOP convention to be in Minnesota
- 2008 Juno Award nominees announced
- 2008 Major League Soccer: Toronto FC vs. D.C. United
- 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs enter second round
- 2008 Tour de Taiwan Stage 2: European & American cyclists rise up
- 2008 USL First Division: Seattle Sounders vs. Vancouver Whitecaps
- 2008 Winter Carnival partially thaws in Saint Paul
- 2010 Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure becomes world's largest Komen race
- 2010 NASCAR: Kevin Harvick wins Summer race in Daytona Beach, Florida
- 2011 BRIT Awards highlights
- 2012 Paralympic Village occupied by competitors as nations ready for the Games
- 2012 Report on Gender Equality and Development credits Icelandic parental policy with 'hopeful' changes
- 2012 Report on Gender Equality and Development looks at women's issues in India
- 2012 Report on Gender Equality and Development says US women have room for progress
- 2012 Report on Gender Equality and Development suggests Australian women are doing okay
- 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships preparations underway
- 2020 United States presidential election: Trump, Sanders win New Hampshire primaries
- 21 sites added to Unesco World Heritage list
- 23 Australians arrested in global child porn network
- 231st Independence Day celebrated in United States
- 24 people rescued from roller coaster at California's Great America theme park
- 25 dead after mine explosion in West Virginia
- 26 Americans, mostly CIA agents, charged for kidnapping in Italy
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- 4 year-old suspended from kindergarten in Texas, US
- 4.3 magnitude earthquake strikes the San Francisco region
- 400 pound python seized by wildlife officials in Florida
- 401 children from Texas sect compound taken into custody
- 40th Ariane 5 rocket launches ProtoStar-1 and Badr-6 satellites
- 49 dead after Comair regional jet crashes in Kentucky
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- 5 dead in Chicago-area store shooting
- 5 killed as bus from New York City to Montreal crashes
- 5 killed in Kentucky coal mine explosion
- 5-year old American girl dies after visiting the dentist
- 5-year-old girl handcuffed by Florida police
- 5.3 magnitude earthquake rocks Hawaii hours before expected hurricane
- 5.8 magnitude earthquake rocks San Diego and northern Mexico
- 500 million US dollars worth of treasure found off coast of Cornwall UK
- 540 million private Facebook records found on public Internet
- 5th Canadian soldier in a week killed in Afghanistan
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- 6 Canadian soldiers injured in Afghan attack
- 6-year-old boy in Colorado found alive, unhurt after runaway balloon allegedly carried him away
- 6.1 magnitude aftershock earthquake hits Haiti
- 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits off California coast
- 60-year old woman gives birth to twins
- 60th anniversary of the end of the war in Asia and Pacific commemorated
- 65-year-old woman arrested over the death of two Mexican wrestlers
- 67th Annual Golden Globe Award highlights
- 68 pieces of luggage found behind Texas pet store
- 68% of Dutch consider their government "Lap Dog" of United States
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- 7-Eleven acquires Chicago-based White Hen chain
- 7.2 quake rattles lower Colorado River area in Mexico
- 70,000 General Motors employees go on strike
- 700,000 march in Beirut; Hezbollah leader lambasts Bush and Rice
- 73M-year-old fossilized fish found in Canada
- 77 names added to fallen journalist memorial in Washington, D.C.
- 77-year-old pastor found guilty of child rape and sexual abuse
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- 9 US soldiers killed in Iraq bombing; 20 others wounded
- 9/11 Anthrax investigation quietly loses urgency
- 9/11 conspirator Moussaoui ejected from court
- 9/11 health care bill passed in US House of Representatives
- 90 days of hard labor for Abu Ghraib dog handler
- 93-year-old Michigan man freezes to death after electric company limits his power usage
- 98th annual East Texas State Fair opens in Tyler, Texas