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Republicans ramp up minority outreach
Republicans are ramping up their recruitment of minority candidates in an effort to combat the demographic trends that helped hand them stinging ...
Questions remain over Russian dissident's suicide
A Russian opposition activist who committed suicide at a Dutch deportation center after his request for political asylum was turned down was laid to ...
Totals of number of Hispanics in US House differ
How many Hispanic members are there in the U.S. Congress? Turns out narrowing it down to one number is not easy. There is no dispute about the Senate, ...
House opens first immigration hearing
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Tuesday the nation's immigration system is "in desperate need of repair" as he opened Congress' ...
Conservatives make gun issue new rallying cry
An immigration debate is raging and a budget crisis looms in Congress, but the conservative activists gathered outside the New Hampshire Statehouse ...
Senate group focuses on border security
A bipartisan group of senators working to craft immigration legislation is focusing on how to define when the border is secure, one of several ...
UN official concerned at Greek prison conditions
A United Nations fact-finding mission has voiced concern at conditions in Greek prisons and detention facilities, lamenting overcrowding and harsh ...
Romanians, Bulgarians answer UK immigration fears
The scaremongering is all over British tabloids: Romanians and Bulgarians (Pickpockets! Scam artists! Scroungers!) flooding into the UK by the ...
Illegal immigration foes despair over GOP moves
Marty Lich is ready to bolt. It's been a couple of years since the self-described conservative considered herself a Republican, but she still often ...
McCain: Immigration reform failure would cost GOP
In a warning to fellow Republicans, Sen. John McCain said Wednesday that failure to pass comprehensive immigration legislation could mean continued ...
Polish is 2nd most-spoken language in England
Polish is England's second language, according to statistics published Wednesday, a dramatic illustration of the wave of immigration that has brought ...
Syrian refugee surge tests Sweden's welcome
Wisam Attiki was drawn by the tales of Nordic refuge: All he had to do was set foot in Sweden, his fellow Syrians said, and the rich, peaceful nation ...
Mexico breaks up alleged border sex-slavery cult
Mexican officials broke up a bizarre cult that allegedly ran a sex-slavery ring among its followers on the U.S. border, Mexican immigration ...
THE RESET: Guns, immigration topping week's agenda
A week into his second term, President Barack Obama is temporarily turning from perpetual political fights over the national debt, government ...
Tina Turner on her way to Swiss citizenship
Tina Turner is on her way to becoming a Swiss citizen. The American rock diva has lived in the Zurich suburb of Kuesnacht since the mid-1990s.
UK immigration inspector slams application backlog
Britain's chief immigration inspector says he has found thousands of unresolved applications stretching back a decade — including boxes of paperwork ...
Poll: Many say let illegal immigrants stay in US
More than 6 in 10 Americans now favor allowing illegal immigrants to eventually become U.S. citizens, a major increase in support driven by a ...
Rights group takes Italy to task over migrants
Human rights advocates are denouncing what they say is Italy's repeated practice of summarily sending back unaccompanied migrant children and adult ...
March protests immigrant's slaying in Greece
Several thousand people marched through central Athens on Saturday to protest a spate of anti-immigrant attacks in Greece, including the fatal ...
2 Greeks charged in Pakistani immigrant's killing
Two Greeks were charged Friday with the fatal stabbing of a Pakistani immigrant, which rights groups and mainstream political parties have denounced ...
Greece: Race motive suspected in migrant murder
Police arrested two Greek men accused of stabbing a Pakistani immigrant worker to death in Athens on Thursday, and are investigating whether the ...
Russian dissident commits suicide in Netherlands
A Russian man who had sought political asylum in the Netherlands committed suicide while awaiting deportation to his homeland, Dutch authorities said ...