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Mexico City - The Sixth International AIDS Conference (IAC) scheduled for San Francisco in 1990 instigated boycotts that drew international attention due to the discriminatory bar on HIV-positive people traveling or immigrating to the U.S. Since that ...

By The Associated Press VERACRUZ, Mexico - Two people are dead after a shootout between Mexican police and smugglers driving a truck packed with illegal immigrants from Central America. Police caught up with the truck near the town of Agua Dulce in ...

CHICAGO -- Immigrant children of all backgrounds get even less vigorous exercise than their U.S.-born counterparts, the largest study of its kind suggests. Plenty of earlier evidence shows that U.S. children are pretty inactive. The new study of nearly ...

DETROIT - A film critic is accused of illegally trying to return to the United States with nearly $12,000 stashed in a cigar box. Elvis Mitchell's explanation: Oops. He was travelling with the wrong box. Mitchell was entering Detroit in a cab from ...

Intel unveils chip technologyIntel on Monday is providing the first details of a chip technology that is designed to help break into new markets, starting with high-end graphics used for computer games and animation, reports The Wall Street Journal.The ...

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The bill was well received at the G8 meeting, the meeting of the world's largest economic superpowers which takes place each July. The G8 published a document entitled 'Declaration on the World Economy'. The document contains a section 'Protection of ...

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A Polish-born scientist who conducted research for nearly 14 years at the University of Idaho is facing deportation, apparently because she continued working for eight months after an immigration document expired, The Spokesman-Review, a newspaper in ...

CHARLESTON, West Virginia-Equal parts graceful and eerie, massive brick and stone asylums once loomed over towns from Maine to California as the 19th century's ideal for the humane treatment of America's mentally ill. Ornate facades, turrets, sprawling ...

?290 Mexicans die crossing US border in 2008? MEXICO CITY: A total of 290 Mexicans have died trying to cross the border into the United States in the first half of 2008, according to a lawmaker in Mexico?s Chamber of Deputies. The number compared ...

WS NEW RINF FORUM! Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 Discuss this report in the RINF forums > Via Bruce Schneier | Amazing. The U.S. government has published its policy: they can take your laptop anywhere they want, for as long as they want, and share the ...

Recently, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (which is one level below the US Supreme court) ruled that a woman who allowed her father to use her US citizens son birth certificate (in order to bring an infant into the US) did not commit alien smuggling: We ...

In a move sure to agitate privacy advocates, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed last week that federal agents have now been given the power to seize and detain laptops and certain other electronics without any suspicion of ...

CHICAGO, Illinois (JGLi) ?? ' Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama said over the weekend that immigrants from other countries are welcome in the United States. 'The problem that I see is not the number of immigrants that are coming in than ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers' laptops and other e lectronic devices at the border and hold then for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday. Under recently disclosed Department of ...

MEXICO CITY -- A total of 290 Mexicans have died trying to cross the border into the United States in the first half of 2008, according to a lawmaker in Mexico's Chamber of Deputies. The number compared to 520 Mexicans who died in the whole of 2007 as ...

nts can seize travelers? laptops and share copies of the contents with other agencies and ?private entities? for language translation, data decryption, ?or other reasons,? it?s been revealed. And they can do it without suspicion of ...

A U.S. citizen of Vietnamese origin, wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges he sexually abused his daughter, has been arrested and deported from Vietnam after being in hiding for more than three years. The FBI notified Vietnamese ...

TAK : Authorities are getting ready for next week's visit to this northern border province by US First Lady Laura Bush. Governor Chumporn Polrak has discussed security plans and reception procedures with security authorities and officers from the ...