April 2005 in the United States

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[edit] Deaths in April • 16 – Marla Ruzicka • 5 – Saul Bellow • 1 – Robert Coldwell Wood [edit] Ongoing events Conflict in Iraq Social Security reform Accounting scandals Nuclear option(Filibustering) debate in US Senate [edit] Future events – May 19, Star Wars III [edit] Upcoming holidays May 8 Mother's Day May 21 Armed Forces Day May 30 Memorial Day [edit] Upcoming elections none [edit] Ongoing trials Michael Jackson Zacarias Moussaoui Dennis Rader

United States News can be found here (Associated Press feed provided by newsday.com).

[edit] April 27, 2005

• The U.S. House of Representatives rescinds controversial ethics rules in order to end a stalemate in the Ethics Committee. (Yahoo!)

[edit] April 18, 2005

• Adobe Systems offers to buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion. (Yahoo!)

[edit] April 9, 2005

• A former chef at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch testifies that he saw the singer with his hand in the front of Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin's shorts. (Gulf Times, Qatar)

[edit] April 5, 2005

• Longtime ABC News anchor Peter Jennings has been diagnosed with lung cancer. ABC News

[edit] April 4, 2005

• A Union Pacific freight train derails in San Bernardino, California. No one was injured. (Mercury News) (KCAU-TV) (KABC)

[edit] April 2, 2005

• President Bush and others pay tribute to Pope John Paul II, who died at 2:37 p.m. Eastern Time. (CNN)

[edit] News collections and sources

• Wikipedia:News collections and sources.
• Wikipedia:News sources - This has much of the same material organised in a hierarchical manner to help encourage NPOV in our news reporting.