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An Army doctor has been charged with disobeying orders after failing to show up for duty in Afghanistan and questioning whether President Barack Obama has the right to order him there. Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin is scheduled to be arraigned Friday at Fort ...

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It is today routinely believed that under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, mere birth on U.S. soil is sufficient to obtain U.S. citizenship. However strong this commonly believed interpretation might appear, it is incompatible ...

Aug 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's approval of President Barack Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for her to be sworn in as the 112th justice in the nation's history. Kagan would join the eight ...

The U.S. Coast Guard repatriated 323 illegal immigrants to Haiti Tuesday, according to the Dominican media. The illegal immigrants were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard near the Bahama Islands on July 30 and Aug. 1 respectively. The two boats carrying ...

Two men will spend decades in prison for beating an Ecuadorean immigrant to death after mistaking him and his brother for a gay couple. Keith Phoenix was convicted of murder as a hate crime in the December 2008 death of Jose Sucuzhanay. He was sentenced ...

Executive chef Julio Mercado has overseen the opening of five restaurants in Chicago in the last 10 years. For a top restaurant, Mercado interviewed 500 applicants to fill 65 kitchen positions. He is now the head chef in an Italian restaurant. As proud ...

A 19-year-old man was deported from the US, where he had lived most of his life, to Bangladesh along with his family in January. Now he is fighting to be allowed to return to Texas -- and his weapon of choice is YouTube. The sparsely furnished room ...

(RTTNews) - The U.S. State Department has issued a Presidential permit for an innovative U.S.-Mexico border crossing in California. Otay-Tijuana Venture llc, a bi-national investment group, has been entrusted to build and operate the San Diego-Tijuana ...

Borders Group in the US is making some 100 people redundant at its distribution facility in in Nashville, according to the This is on top of the 120 jobs already cut at the same location this year. Employees were informed of the cuts on Tuesday, the ...

From: "BenSul" by Matthew Rusling WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- After a number of U.S. states have rushed to introduce stopgap immigration legislation in the absence of federal action, more are likely to follow suit, amid growing criticism of government ...

The emergence of whiteness studies as a discrete field of academic enquiry has had important implications across a range of fields, including history. In particular, insights drawn from whiteness studies can be fruitfully applied to the study of ...

An attempt by four Cubans to steal a boat and sail to the United States was thwarted thanks to the cooperation between the Cuban Border Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard services, the newspaper Granma reported on Wednesday, citing the Interior Ministry. As ...

WASHINGTON, AUG 4 (KUNA) -- The United States said on Wednesday that the reaction of the Lebanese army along the border with Israel was "unjustified and unwarranted", but affirmed that this will not affect US commitment to Lebanon. "The United Nations ...

An illegal immigrant charged with drunken driving in a crash that killed a nun and critically injured two others could face a felony murder charge in the case, a Virginia prosecutor said Wednesday. Paul Ebert, the commonwealth's attorney for Prince ...

WASHINGTON: Leading Republicans are joining a push to reconsider the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to people born in the United States. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said on Tuesday he supports holding ...

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES: Executives from NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX have signed on to participate in an event mixer put on by Productions Without Borders (PWB) aimed at promoting diversity in Canada's production industry. The event, Making Diversity Matter, takes ...

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Opponents of comprehensive immigration reform argue that more enforcement is needed before Congress can take up the issue. But the facts highlight the hypocrisy in this argument. The Obama administration has deported 279,035 persons during the first nine ...

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