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VANCOUVER - U.S. officials have a message for Canadians and Americans living in Canada: Don't procrastinate when it comes to getting the travel documents you'll need to cross the border beginning next June. Those who put off getting a passport, Nexus ...

By Nancy De Lemos. San Jose, Jul 28 (EFE).- After years on the run and living in fear, not only due to the domestic violence of which she was the victim, but also out of fear of her country's authorities, a U.S. woman has begun a new life at the side of ...

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WASHINGTON, July 28 (KUNA) -- President George W. Bush discussed with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the White House Monday the need to secure the Pakistani-Afghan border. 'Pakistan is a strong ally and a vibrant democracy. The United ...

POSTVILLE, Iowa (AP) -- Scores of Somali immigrants are taking jobs at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, replacing Hispanic workers arrested in a huge immigration raid and forcing a remote Iowa town to make another cultural shift. Before the ...

ELIZABETH, N.J. - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez toured New Jersey's largest immigrant detention facility Monday, urging Congress to back his proposal for improving detainee health care. 'The responsibility remains with the federal government to ensure that a ...

Beginning Jan. 12, visitors to the U.S. from visa-waiver countries, most of which are in Europe, will be required to register online and to be screened and authorized for entry. The European Commission is considering a similar system later for visitors ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ A federal appeals court has refused to throw out lengthy prison sentences for two U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting an unarmed illegal immigrant and lying about it. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on ...

American Eurocopter has won a follow-on contract to supply as many as 50 AS350 helicopters to the US Customs and Border Protection agency. An initial order to build 17 AS350s next year could be followed by four, one-year increments under a package worth ...

'[In a republic, according to Montesquieu in Spirit of the Laws, IV,ch.5,] 'virtue may be defined as the love of the laws and of our country. As such love requires a constant preference of public to private interest, it is the source of all private ...

ELIZABETH, N.J. - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez is planning to tour an immigrant detention facility in Elizabeth Monday as part of his push to improve detainee health care. Menendez is proposing a bill that would mandate better health care for those held in ...

WASHINGTON-President George W. Bush on Monday praised Pakistan's prime minister for being committed to the joint battle against extremists. But neither of the men addressed the news of the latest clash in Pakistan, a missile strike that hit a religious ...

ISLAMABAD, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's military on Monday expressed concern over cross-border attacks by the U.S.-led NATO forces as acting commander of the United States Central Command Martin Dempsey is visiting the country. General Tariq Majid, ...

The president appeared at the White House on Monday with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. The visit came at a tense moment in ties between the country, with calls from U.S. officials for Pakistan to stop militants from staging cross-border ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, About 100 insurgents raided a government centre Sunday near the border with Pakistan, and more than two dozen of the attackers were killed in the battle, authorities said. Two policemen also died. American troops and aircraft assisted ...

Last year, when Sen. Barack Obama was making the circuit of conventions for journalists of color, the question was whether the prospective candidate was black enough. This year, when he appeared before the UNITY: Journalists of Color convention in ...

POSTVILLE, Iowa (AP) _ As the chants of 1,000 or so people roared near the center of town, Dave Hartley stood on the periphery wearing a look of wonder and bemusement.The 50-year-old Postville resident said he never expected this sleepy community of ...

POSTVILLE, Iowa (AP) -- As the chants of 1,000 or so people roared near the center of town, Dave Hartley stood on the periphery wearing a look of wonder and bemusement. The 50-year-old Postville resident said he never expected this sleepy community of ...

POSTVILLE, Iowa (AP) _ About a thousand protesters descended on a small town in northeastern Iowa on Sunday, decrying the raid of a meatpacking plant that arrested nearly 400 residents and calling for a change in federal immigration policies.Postville, a ...

About a thousand protesters descended on a small town in northeastern Iowa on Sunday, decrying the raid of a meatpacking plant that arrested nearly 400 residents and calling for a change in federal immigration policies.Postville, a town with about 2,200 ...