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WASHINGTON: The Senate plans crucial votes today on two of the year's most incendiary political issues: repealing the military's ''don't ask, don't tell'' policy on gays and lesbians and revamping immigration laws to help put children of illegal aliens ...

The Washington Post Posted: 12/18/2010 01:00:00 AM MST Updated: 12/18/2010 01:26:56 AM MST WASHINGTON To stem the flow of guns to Mexico, federal firearms regulators are proposing an emergency requirement that certain gun dealers along the ...

Washington, Dec 18 (IANS) Pakistan was shifting its emphasis away from its eastern border with India, a decision it had taken on its own because of a 'definite shift' in Islamabad's military posture brought about by fundamental changes within the ...

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It crashed on Tuesday and has been returned to Mexico, officials said. The unmanned aircraft was part of a surveillance test by Mexican authorities that ended when the craft went out of control, US reports said. It is unclear whether the Mexican ...

Mexican prison officials say that at least 159 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nuevo Laredo, a northeastern town near the U.S. border. Officials say the inmates escaped early Friday through the main entrance. One police source said the method of ...

PESHAWAR, PAKISTANThree American missile attacks killed 54 suspected militants Friday close to the Afghan border, an unusually high number of victims that included commanders of a Taliban-allied group that were holding a meeting, Pakistani officials ...

Mexican prison officials say that at least 159 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nuevo Laredo, a northeastern town near the U.S. border. Officials say the inmates escaped early Friday through the main entrance. One police source said the method of ...

More than 140 inmates escaped from a prison in Nuevo Laredo on the US border on Friday while hours later suspected hitmen blew up a car near Monterrey in a burst of violence in Mexico's brutal drug war. The 149 prisoners slowly filed out the ...

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Ed. Note: This is the eighth in a series of posts from top Administration Officials on the importance of the DREAM Act. Read Education Secretary Arne Duncan's post here, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis's contribution here, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke's ...

(RTTNews) - At least 149 inmates have escaped from a prison in Mexico located near the border with the United States, local news reports quoting unnamed prison officials said Friday. The prisoners are believed to have walked though the main entrance of ...

WASHINGTON -- Immigration officers are unlikely to take extraordinary steps to arrest young people who have publicly revealed they are in the country illegally should the DREAM Act fail in the Senate. Assistant Homeland Security Secretary John Morton ...

Washington's ambassador to Pakistan says the United States is confidents Pakistan will launch an anti-insurgency offensive in its border region of North Waziristan identified as the epicenter of global terrorism, despite strains on Pakistan's armed ...

REUTERS - More than 140 inmates escaped from a prison near the U.S. border on Friday, the latest breach of Mexico's notoriously insecure prisons that are helping to feed a brutal drug war. The 149 prisoners slowly filed out the main entrance of the ...

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - At least 141 inmates escaped from a Mexican prison near the US border Friday, deepening alarm in a region suffering extreme violence from rival drug gangs. "Early investigations show the inmates left through the service entrance for ...

OMAHA, Neb. A Nebraska judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit challenging a state law that allows some illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition. The lawsuit filed in January on behalf of six Nebraska residents claimed their taxes were being used ...

The UK Border Agency will appeal against a tribunal ruling preventing the deportation of a failed asylum seeker who killed a 12-year-old girl in a hit-and-run driving incident, immigration minister Damian Green has said. Mr Green's announcement that the ...

More than 140 prisoners escaped from a prison near the US border on Friday, media said, the latest breach of Mexico's notoriously insecure jails that are helping to feed a violent drug war. The 148 prisoners broke out of a prison on the outskirts of ...

MONTERREY, Mexico More than 140 inmates escaped from a prison near the U.S. border on Friday, the latest breach of Mexico's notoriously insecure prisons that are helping to feed a brutal drug war. The 149 prisoners slowly filed out the main entrance ...