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Wade Henderson and Janet Murguia, presidents of two national organizations present at the White House meeting held this Tuesday to discuss immigration reform, are highlighting the president’s support for the DREAM Act. Just last week, though, a leading advocate for the passage of the DREAM Act received a notice of deportation. # During a phone conference organized by the National Council of La Raza on Wednesday to present a report on the impact of Arizona’s S.B. 1070 immigration-enforcement law, Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights , said that the president voiced his support for the DREAM Act Tuesday.

There ought not be open dissension on this issue, is the message the Catholic hierarchy is telling priests in Minnesota -- this issue being same-sex

... comes a report (pdf) that finds Medicare’s hospital fund will go broke sometime in 2017 -- two years earlier than analysts reported just a year ago. The

State Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando (Pic by Minority Office, via flsenate.gov) A school prayer bill introduced by state Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, has caught the attention of national groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Freedom From Religion Foundation

The State Department released a revised civilian strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan today. And it’s really more of a summary of what’s been going on as much

After banks received billions of dollars when their risky investments failed, most economists understand that, without strict controls, markets and banks are

Conventional wisdom has it that the Southeast has few opportunities to develop renewable energy. But renewable energy industry groups are touting a study they

U.S. nuclear development, already slowed by a lack of private investment, seems likely to be further stalled by the political fallout from the Fukushima

Staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission are recommending that civil securities fraud charges be filed against Angelo Mozilo, the once high-flying head

It doesn’t appear so, according to Greg Jaffe’s preview of the Pentagon’s investigation: A high-level Pentagon inquiry into the Fort Hood shootings that left

Successful statewide efforts to restrict teen access to abortion coupled with unsuccessful efforts to enhance sex education in public schools (most receiving

In his first interview since becoming Barack Obama’s national security adviser, retired Marine Gen. Jim Jones tells Neil King of the Wall Street Journal that

The Obama administration’s budget blueprint for fiscal year 2011, unveiled yesterday, includes $49 billion to expand federal unemployment benefits, which

The firefighter/plaintiff of the New Haven, Conn., affirmative action case is on the minority’s witness list for next week’s hearings on Sonia Sotomayor’s

Four Senate Democrats have called for EPA administrator Stephen Johnson to resign. Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer

Joseph Farah, who’s edited the conservative WorldNetDaily.com since its founding in 1997, is swinging back at an ad hoc campaign led by conservative blogger Jon

Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) sent a letter to President Obama today asking him to halt the transfer of six

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Congress has until Friday at midnight to pass 12 appropriations bills for fiscal year 2012, as well as stopgap spending legislation to keep the government

The news that was circulating through the Arabic-language press yesterday has now been confirmed by Human Rights Watch, The Washington Post reports. According

There was no reason to pay off these parties at 100 cents on the dollar, said Bill Black, a leading critic of the government’s bailout managers.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as