Nov 12, 2009
Lou Dobbs has left CNN, or maybe the other way around. Whichever it is, an old, odd, infuriating-to-many mismatch of sober network and strident host is over. CNN, for now anyway, changes back to something closer to the nonpartisan, straight-up news network it wants you to think of it...
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Nov 11, 2009
If well-intentioned interventions could magically change lives, last weekend would have marked more of an end than a beginning when people paused to remember the anniversary of the stabbing death of Marcelo Lucero, a 37-year-old Ecuadorean immigrant who the police said was attacked by seven teenagers outside the village...
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Senator Lindsey Graham, the Republican with a maverick streak, has been censured by local Republican Party officials in his home state of South Carolina.
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For a time, Mr. Dobbs did tone down his TV rhetoric, but on Wednesday he made a more drastic decision: He chose opinion.
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Nov 10, 2009
A former Frederick County resident is taking Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins, the county's board of commissioners, sheriff's deputy Jeffrey Openshaw and current and former immigration officials to federal court for allegedly violating her civil rights.
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Bishop of Derry Seamus Hegarty provided a much needed lift to the plight of the undocumented during a busy visit to the United States last week.
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Whatever one thinks of the substance, and whatever happens from now on, the House Democrats' victory Saturday on their health care reform package with only a single Republican supporter was a triumph of legislative maneuvering, with the biggest kudos going to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
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As her fellow college graduates busy themselves with spamming every available e-mail inbox with resumes, 25-year-old Lizbeth Mateo keeps to the same Los Angeles coffee shop she's worked in for the past five years.
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One of the largest immigration crackdowns under the Obama administration to date took place in the Twin Cities last month, when 1,200 undocumented janitors were fired from their jobs, according to immigration lawyers.
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Nov 7, 2009
The most ambitious overhaul of the U.S. health care system in 40 years squeaked through the House late Saturday, allowing President Obama to win a preliminary round in what could still be a long battle for his top domestic priority.
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