Topic: North America
NEWBURYPORT, Mass (Reuters Life!) - On a recent frigid morning, winds howling in from the west, David Weaver peered through binoculars over the Merrimack River in Massachusetts, scanning for an icon: the American bald eagle. Haliaeetus leucocephalus, America's national bird, is frequently seen in winter in the Joppa Flats area, where the Merrimack widens and meets the churning Atlantic Ocean ...
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MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Armed men likely linked to drug gangs blocked highways with trucks and buses in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Friday in an apparent attempt to hamper army operations near the U.S. border. Gunmen pulled truck and bus drivers out of their vehicles in the wealthy business city and used them to set up blockades ...
