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NEW YORKA man was convicted Monday of murder as a hate crime during his retrial on charges that he beat an Ecuadorean immigrant with an aluminum baseball bat after mistaking him and his brother for a gay couple. Jurors deliberated for about seven hours ...

A force of about 700 U.S. and Afghan soldiers launched a major assault along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan in an attempt to destroy a growing insurgent haven and blunt rising violence in the area, senior Army officials said Monday. The attack by ...

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Kigali FEDERAL prosecutors in the state of New Hampshire in the United States, Thursday arrested and indicted a Rwandan woman suspected of having participated in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, on two counts of unlawfully procuring US citizenship. ...

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., speak at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) Last week, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl revealed in a town hall meeting that President Obama was holding border security ...

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Federal officials have told Arizona's attorney general and a congresswoman that 524 of the 1,200 National Guard troops headed to the U.S.-Mexican border will be deployed in the state. Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and Attorney General Terry Goddard ...

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PHOENIX -- Federal officials told Arizona's attorney general and a congresswoman Monday that 524 of the 1,200 National Guard troops headed to the U.S.-Mexico border will be deployed in the state by August or September. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Tennessee's governor has signed a measure into law that would require the state's jailers to determine whether inmates are in the country illegally and report them if they are. Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen said after signing the bill ...

WASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama is enlisting activists and labor leaders in a push for comprehensive immigration legislation that will showcase Republican opposition and include a speech by the president. The strategy was discussed during a meeting ...

PHOENIX - Federal officials told Arizona's attorney general and a congresswoman on Monday that 524 of the 1,200 National Guard troops headed to the U.S.-Mexico border will be deployed in the state by August or September. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and ...

Politico - Amid oil, Kagan hearings, and Afghanistan, the President is stillstoking the immigration fire. ...

Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona angrily rejects the notion that he's 'walked back' his account of a meeting on immigration reform with President Barack Obama, according to The Hill. Kyl will tell Fox News tonight that he stands entirely behind his ...

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MOUNT KISKO, N.Y., June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mount Kisko Borders store is teaming with the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) to host a Mobile Service Office (MSO) July 2 to support the needs of local veterans. (Logo: ...

agreed on Monday to review an Arizona law that sanctions employers for hiring illegal immigrants, but the justices declined to get involved in landmark anti-tobacco litigation, leaving in place a ruling that said cigarette makers lied about the dangers ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is meeting with activists who are pressing him for action on immigration legislation and Arizona's tough new enforcement law. The meeting Monday at the White House includes prominent labour leaders and Hispanic ...

Washington (CNN) - The President was scheduled to meet with grassroots leaders at 3:15 Monday afternoon to discuss immigration reform, a White House official confirms. Two sources outside the White House involved in the talks say immigration reform is ...

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The South Portland Borders store is teaming with the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) to host a Mobile Service Office (MSO) July 2 to support the needs of local veterans. (Logo: ...