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'Homefront' Brings Resistance Fighting to Small-Town America

In an occupied country, ill-equipped rebels face off against a powerful empire and impossible odds. It's a familiar story that could take place anywhere -- 1940s France, 1950s Algeria, 1960s Vietnam or even Afghanistan today. But in "Homefront," a new video game to be released Tuesday by THQ, it's happening in America in...

Google Maps Redraws Nicaragua-Costa Rica Border; 4 Other Google Controversies

(Nov. 8) -- A giant global company like Google is bound to step on some toes now and again, and last week the Web behemoth found itself at the center of an international border dispute. When a former Nicaraguan guerilla, Edén Pastora, took some of his men across the border into neighboring Costa Rica, media reports said...

Asian Carp Wouldn't Be First Alien to Invade Great Lakes

(June 24) -- Asian carp wouldn't be the first non-native species of fish to enter the Great Lakes. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, at least 25 other non-native species have done so since the 1800s. Some examples: The round goby, a bottom-dwelling fish introduced into the St. Clair River in 1990,...

Alien Invasion: Asian Carp Breach Great Lakes Barrier

Illinois Department of Natural Resources / AP

(June 24) -- They can grow to 4 feet and 100 pounds and eat 40 percent of their body weight daily. They have knocked jet skiers unconscious. Scientists have been warning of their invasion for years. And now an Asian carp was found this week for the first time beyond the electric barriers meant to keep the invasive species...

Background on invasion

An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts of the armed forces of one geopolitical entity aggressively entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of either conquering, liberating or re-establishing control or authority over a territory, forcing the partition of a country, altering the established government or gaining concessions from said government, or a combination thereof.

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