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NEW YORK: , which owns the Book-of-the-Month Club, will also assume $220 million in debt. The agreement is tentative and is what is known as a "stalking horse" bid for a company under bankruptcy protection. The bid will open an auction for the company ...

Borders in the US has agreed to sell to private investment firm Najafi for $215m (135m), it has been announced today. The Borders Group bookselling chain is now seeking bankruptcy court approval for the agreement, which if passed, will also see Najafi ...

LONDON Hundreds of thousands of teachers, police workers, immigration officers and other government employees walked off the job across Britain on Thursday in a mass strike that could augur a summer of industrial action over cuts in public spending. ...

MADRID - British Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith will Friday call on UK businesses to employ jobless British youths -- rather than immigrant workers. In a speech in Madrid, Duncan Smith will say that more than half the new jobs created in ...

Last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents? union officials throughout the nation issued a unanimous no confidence vote in that agency?s Director John Morton on behalf of ICE officers, agents and employees nationwide citing gross ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Tex.) is siding with IT staffing firms that rely heavily on H-1B visa workers in a fight over a new immigration rule that curbs their ability to hire foreign workers. These staffing firms, which may have more than ...

Last Friday night, the faithful and the curious lined up for a special mass at St. Anthony Parish in Oakland. On a pedestal up front stood the object of their affection: a 4-foot-5 statue of a blue-eyed Mexican priest. A statue of Santo Toribio Romo has ...

The first week I arrived at this National Park Service locale, I was invited to attend a naturalization ceremony. When I walked into Homestead's Education Center before the proceedings began, the room was filled with people of different races, languages ...

One of the U.S. Attorneys ousted during the 2006 firing scandal is representing the family of a Border Patrol agent whose death has ties to a controversial Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gun smuggling program, the Arizona Daily Star ...

Allowing hundreds of illegal aliens to participate in a congressional hearing sends a dangerous signal that it's okay to flout immigration laws in the U.S. Thats what some immigration watchdogs are saying about a Senate hearing Tuesday that intended ...

They may only just have landed across the border, but the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge appear already to have set their sights on their next stop - the U.S.A. Speaking to crowds gathered to meet the newlyweds after they arrived this afternoon in Ottawa, ...

U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan Ken Gross, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) William Brownfield, and Deputy Chief of Tajikistan's Border Guard Forces Major-General Safarali Nazirov, traveled to ...

NEWARK In this photo taken August 2010, Josh Vandiver, left, and Henry Velandia toast during their wedding in Montville, CT. Velandia, 27, from Venezuela, faced deportation from the U.S., as the U.S. federal government does not recognize same sex ...

Phoenix - W.J. Maloney Plumbing Co., Inc. has been awarded a contract for work on an expansion project at Mariposa Land Port of Entry near Nogales. The project consists of the phased demolition of the existing Port of Entry and the new construction of ...

The first week I arrived at this National Park Service locale, I was invited to attend a naturalization ceremony. When I walked into Homestead's Education Center before the proceedings began, the room was filled with people of different races, languages ...

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Earlier this month, Rebecca Forest, co-founder and past president of the Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas, was portrayed as a bigot by liberal Texas Democrats. She was savaged in a YouTube clip and in a newspaper editorial in the Austin ...

Immigration officials have called off the deportation of a Venezuelan man who legally married his same-sex partner in the United States, a move advocates hope will push the Obama administration to halt similar deportations and help repeal a federal law ...

According to investigators, on Tuesday at about 11:30 a.m., Patrolman Jeffrey Glennon stopped a 1986 Dodge Ram driven by Roberto Arroyo on Route 22 near Potterstown Road for multiple violations. During the stop, Arroyo allegedly produced a fraudulent ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 30 (UPI) -- A member of Hezbollah tied to the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri holds a U.S. passport, a source said. ...