U.S. needs ‘to do right’ for immigrant children: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top U.S. official said on Sunday the U.S. border is not open to illegal entry into the country, but acknowledged the government does need to be... Read more »
View ArticleRick Perry stands by immigration conspiracy theory
Texas Gov. Rick Perry repeated an accusation that undocumented children coming to the U.S. from Latin American countries might be a result of “ulterior motives” from President Obama. “I have... Read...
View Article6 killed, 4 children, in Texas shooting
A man involved in a domestic dispute opened fire at a suburban Houston home Wednesday evening, killing six people, four of them children, and wounding one woman, authorities said. A... Read more »
View ArticleTexas shooting suspect had history of domestic violence
SPRING, Texas (AP) — A man charged with killing six members of his ex-wife’s family, including four children, was the subject of a restraining order obtained by his own mother... Read more »
View ArticleU.S. Border Patrol releases journalist, activist Vargas
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a Philippines-born immigration activist who has lived and in the U.S. illegally since he was a child, was released by......
View ArticleHouse OKs bill to address border crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans passed legislation late Friday to address the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border by sending migrant youths back home without hearings, winning over conservatives with...
View ArticleAmerican nurse with Ebola virus leaving Liberia
ATLANTA (AP) — A second American missionary stricken with Ebola is expected to fly Tuesday to the U.S. for treatment, following a colleague who was admitted over the weekend to... Read more »
View ArticleDry as a bone
CLICK IMAGE for slideshow: A sign alongside barren farmland outside Mendota, Calif. (Holly Bailey/Yahoo News) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Bob Taylor was barely 2 years old when his parents packed as... Read...
View ArticlePhotos: Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson earned police honor before fatal shooting
View gallery . Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson (Screen shot via Facebook) FERGUSON, Mo. — Six months before he shot and killed an unarmed teenager, police Officer Darren Wilson earned... Read more »
View ArticleACLU: Ferguson death report violates law
View gallery . Theo Murphy, left, and his brother Jordan Marshall, 11, light candles at a memorial where unarmed Michael Brown … A police report on the death of Michael Brown... Read more »
View ArticleFather acquitted of shooting sons’ killer
A Texas jury on Wednesday found a father not guilty of shooting dead a suspected drunk driver who hit and killed his two sons while they pushed a truck down... Read more »
View ArticleDisputed Kurdish tank disappears in Texas
A tanker near Texas loaded with $ 100 million of disputed Iraqi Kurdish crude has disappeared from satellite tracking, the latest development in a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse between... Read more »
View ArticleHow does a police department lose a Humvee?
One freezing day last December in the tiny town of Palestine, Ark., a young man climbed into the police department’s Humvee, turned it on, and drove off on a joy... Read more »
View ArticleMystery shrouds U.S. couple’s crash off Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Mystery shrouds the crash of a private plane carrying a prominent upstate New York couple who were taken on a ghostly 1,700-mile journey after apparently becoming... Read more »
View ArticleSummer break over, must-do tasks await Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — Summer break over and elections ahead, Congress is beginning an abbreviated September session with must-do tasks of preventing a government shutdown and extending a freeze on...
View ArticleDenver woman pleads guilty in terror case
A 19-year-old Colorado woman became the latest American to admit to attempting to join a Middle East terrorist group, pleading guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to provide support to the... Read more »
View ArticleVikings bar Peterson from all team activities
>> MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After a day of public pressure from angry fans and concerned sponsors, the Minnesota Vikings have reversed course and placed star running back Adrian Peterson on... Read more »
View ArticleFence-jumper gets into White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service is coming under intense scrutiny after a man who hopped the White House fence made it all the way through the front door before... Read more »
View ArticleWhy Secret Service didn’t shoot intruder
The small army of Secret Service agents guarding the White House carry a wide range of weapons and get training on how to repel sophisticated armed assaults – so why... Read more »
View ArticleWhite House intruder had a knife
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Texas man arrested on Friday for charging at the White House was armed with a knife when he climbed a fence and made... Read more »
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