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House to consider limited GOP immigration bill
House Republicans still smarting from their poor showing among Hispanics in the presidential election are planning a vote next week on immigration ...
Swedish immigrant shooter gets life in prison
A Swedish gunman convicted of two murders and five attempted murders has been sentenced to life in prison for the spate of shootings that mainly ...
Iowa straw poll on the outs with GOP establishment
In the days since Republicans lost an election many in the party thought was theirs, chatter has been bubbling about what the GOP should do to recover
AP launches its first Spanish-language stylebook
Spanish-language journalists can now learn that the correct word for channel-surfing is "zapeo," sexting is best written in their language as ...
Jindal: Liking people is key to expanding GOP tent
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says the Republican Party needs to go back to basics to attract the broad coalition of voters credited with putting ...
Republicans: GOP needs to get with the times
To hear some Republicans tell it, the Grand Old Party needs to get with the times. Some of the early prescriptions offered by officials and operatives ...
Univision working to create immigration archive
The Spanish-language media company Univision and one of its top advertisers are encouraging Hispanics to share their stories about establishing new ...
Analysis: Only ritual talk on fiscal cliff so far
When President Barack Obama greets congressional leaders at the White House on Friday, an elaborate set of postelection rituals will be complete.
Analysis: Obama aims high but doesn't gloat
President Barack Obama walked a narrow path between ambition and realism, defiance and accommodation when he addressed reporters for the first time ...
Romney: Obama won with 'gifts' to certain voters
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is telling top donors that President Barack Obama won re-election because of the "gifts" he had already ...
Border Patrol under scrutiny for deadly force
A pair of Mexican drug smugglers in camouflage pants, bundles of marijuana strapped to their backs, scaled a 25 foot-high fence in the middle of the ...
Census: New gauge shows high of 49.7M poor in US
The ranks of America's poor edged up last year to a high of 49.7 million, based on a new census measure that takes into account medical costs and ...
Obama: Immigration reform to start early next year
President Barack Obama says America must "seize the moment" to seek an overhaul of the immigration system and he expects that work to start soon after ...
On streets of Athens, racist attacks increase
The attack came seemingly out of nowhere. As the 28-year-old Bangladeshi man dug around trash bins one recent afternoon for scrap metal, two women and ...
Study: US judges' criminal caseloads vary widely
Federal judges across the nation are shouldering criminal caseloads that vary widely in size, sometimes even among judges in the same courthouse, ...
Face of US changing; elections to look different
It's not just the economy, stupid. It's the demographics — the changing face of America. The 2012 elections drove home trends that have been embedded ...
Senators propose comprehensive immigration changes
Two senators on opposite sides of the aisle are proposing comprehensive changes to the immigration laws that would include a pathway to citizenship ...
Boehner says Obama should take lead on immigration
House Speaker John Boehner on Friday said it was time to address immigration policy and urged President Barack Obama to take the lead in coming up ...
Morocco activists slam African migrant treatment
Dozens of Moroccan and foreign activists demonstrated Friday in front of a Rabat courthouse where a Guinean advocate for sub-Saharan migrants in ...
Balkan asylum seekers come under suspicion
Azra Ajeti's fellow Gypsies have been buffeted by accusations of filing bogus asylum claims in the rich EU, but she says there's nothing phony about ...
Obama's big Hispanic win worries Republicans
Omayra Vasquez blinks and does a double take when asked why she voted to re-elect President Barack Obama. The reason for her was as natural as ...
US man jailed for Thai insult says law must change
A Thai-born American who spent more than a year in prison on charges of insulting Thailand's king says the country's harsh laws outlawing criticism ...
New Faces: Newly elected US senators
A look at the newly elected U.S. senators from Tuesday's election: ARIZONA Republican Jeff Flake, the congressman who won Arizona's open U.S.
Re-elected, Obama heads back to divided government
One day after a bruising, mixed-verdict election, President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner both pledged Wednesday to seek a ...
GOP asks "why?" and "where do we go from here?"
Having lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, Republicans plunged Wednesday into an intense period of self-examination, ...