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BUFFALO, New York - Groups of U.S. travellers who defied the federal government's ban on most travel to Cuba returned to the United States with some fanfare but no holdups Monday, passing without incident through checkpoints at the northern and southern ...

A strain of swine flu that is resistant to treatment with the drug Tamiflu has been discovered near the US-Mexican border, the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Monday. 'We have found resistance to Tamiflu on the border. We have observed ...

Janet Napolitano wants Americans to stop living in fear. To achieve that, DHS must change its fear-mongering policies During its seven-year stewardship of homeland security, the Bush administration was rightly condemned for its fear-mongering. So it was ...

Mario Sanchez was 22 and living in poverty in La Palma, Mexico, helping to support his parents and five brothers and sisters, when he entered the United States illegally in 1988, and found a job at an Oakland scrap-metal company. Five years later, he ...

Iran has arrested three Americans accused of having ????infiltrated???? from Iraq. Washington was seeking confirmation those picked up were US backpackers who reportedly strayed across the border. ????An informed Iranian ...

PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai?i Federal agents now flown in as needed SAIPAN, CNMI (Saipan Tribune, August 1, 2009) ? Sen. Paul A. ...

WATERTON PARK, Alta. - A 29-year-old motorcyclist has been killed in a collision near the U.S.-Canada border in southern Alberta. RCMP say the man was originally from Lethbridge but now lives in Saskatchewan. RCMP say the driver appears to have lost ...

Iran's state-owned al-Alam TV has confirmed that three US nationals were in Iranian custody after being detained by security forces near the border with Iraq. The channel quoted 'an informed source' in Iran's Interior Ministry as saying that the three ...

[...] The balloon, owned by the Sierra Nevada Corporation, is shaped like an airplane wing and carries a $1-million camera sensitive enough, U. S. officials say, to read the name of a ship from a distance of nine miles. The company is testing it at the ...

Demographic trends, often ignored by policymakers, are clearly linked with the US immigration policy. If Congress and the Obama administration plan to implement an effective immigration policy, they need to understand how over time it will affect the ...