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The Pew Research Center has just released a very interesting study, Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology. It segments the public into nine groups: eight politically active groups and one inactive group (bystanders) composed entirely of nonvoters. ...

President Barack Obama heads to El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday to give a speech on the need for comprehensive immigration reform -- a perennial hot-button political issue that both Democrats and Republicans hope to use to their advantage in 2012. Obama has ...

U.S. President Barack Obama is heading to the U.S.-Mexican border Tuesday to spell out his plans to overhaul the nation's immigration laws. Mr. Obama will use the speech in El Paso, Texas to pressure the U.S. Congress to pass legislation that would give ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will make his case for immigration reform on Tuesday on a visit to the U.S. border with Mexico, reaching out to Hispanic voters whose support he is counting on to win re-election next year. Top aides said ...

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is making his first trip as president to the U.S.-Mexico border, using the setting to sharpen his call for a remake of the countrys immigration laws and try to cast the Republican Party as the obstacle standing in ...

SALT LAKE CITY Police in Utah have been given the authority to check the citizenship status of anyone they arrest even if only for a few hours. The new law, House Bill 497, went into effect Tuesday, although civil rights attorneys spent much of Monday ...

I learned a lot about Superman today.First, I learned that he's still alive. I thought he'd been killed off a few years ago, but I must admit that I haven't paid much attention to his story arc since Jor-El cast sent him packing from Krypton in the 1978 ...

A tunnel running 250 feet beneath the U.S.-Mexican border has been discovered fully kitted out with electricity, water pumps and ventilation. Authorities in Arizona said although they've found dozens of tunnels in Nogales, a city in Santa Cruz County ...

Carolyn Kaster President Barack Obama admires a gift from crew members of the Discovery Space Shuttle, presented to him by commander Steve Lindsey, left, Monday, May 9, 2011, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ...

A federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday to decide whether to block a new Utah immigration law that lets police check the citizenship status of anyone they arrest. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups is set to hold hearing on the matter in Salt Lake ...