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Tom Friedman may want to think harder about this: Last week, five men from northern Virginia were arrested in Pakistan, where they went, they told Pakistani

Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced last week a record number of arrests of gang-affiliated illegal immigrants in Utah, netting 158 people alleged to

After giving Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre his toughest race in years, Ilario Pantano announced today he is seeking a re-match in 2012 for North Carolina’s

A federal judge on Monday struck down the patent, held jointly by the University of Utah and Myriad Genetics, over BCRA1 and BCRA2, two human genes in which

Criticism hasn’t eased for Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the wake of his statement during a recent debate that the border can’t be secured and defense of his state’s tuition policy for some undocumented immigrants — and a two-day tour in Iowa this week doesn’t look like it will hold solace

After debating Pat Buchanan on Morning Joe earlier in the day about the efficacy of torturing terror suspects, TWI’s Spencer Ackerman returned to MSNBC last

Republicans put some effort into painting presidential candidate Barack Obama as an insufficient friend of American soldiers, with Exhibit A being his decision

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

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

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

... 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

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.

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

A federal judge today blocked the Obama administration’s efforts overturn a Bush administration rule allowing coal companies to dump their mining waste in

Advocates of comprehensive immigration reform argue it could reduce the flow of illegal immigration. How? One suggestion is to reform the legal immigration

The American Civil Liberties Union just won a court order against Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona, who was illegally pre-charging female prisoners hundreds of

Following scant debate, the Senate last week approved an amendment to an Indian health care bill that would permanently prohibit the use of federal dollars

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Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a speech to the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council. He argued that the United States is on an

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan told Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) this afternoon that she believes the death penalty is now settled law and that she has