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New modern check post on Tajik-Afghan border, opened on July 21 DUSHANBE/PANJI POYON, Tajikistan -- The U.S. ambassador to Tajikistan said Washington's investment in a customs post on the Tajik-Afghan border shows its interest in battling drug ...

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks at a news conference in Phoenix on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 regarding the U.S. Justice Department lawsuit against the state of Arizonas new immigration law. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) (CNSNews.com) The author of ...

About 80 miles from the U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona, the desert has become a battlefield for armed civilian patrols who claim they are ready to kill drug smugglers crossing the border. Steven Fabian reports. ...

(Bernd Debusmann is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own) WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - The prize for the biggest political lie of 2009 went to Sarah Palin, the darling of the American right, for injecting fictitious 'death panels' ...

JULY 23 The prize for the biggest political lie of 2009 went to Sarah Palin, the darling of the American right, for injecting fictitious death panels into the health reform debate. This year, fact-benders are hard at work to control the debate ...

U.S. Rep. David Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat, had lunch Thursday with the top official of the office, John Morton. Price is chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that funds the Department of Homeland Security, and ICE issues are under his purview, ...

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-The Methodist Church of is deeply concerned about policy in its own country and the , and it especially questions the soundness of the new Arizona law that criminalizes undocumented people in that state. A far-reaching resolution on was adopted by the ...

A U.S. judge is deliberating whether to bar Arizona from enforcing a law aimed at cracking down on illegal aliens after hearing challenges from the federal government and the American Civil Liberties Union. Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full ...

GOP aims to block small business aid: The Republican minority in the Senate has signaled it will fight efforts by the administration and Democratic majority to help small businesses. The fight was on as soon as Democrats finally passed a bill extending ...

Last week, the US Senate approved the most far-reaching expansion of Wall Street regulations and the financial industry since the Great Depression. Part of that expansion of government power is President Barack Obama naming three nominees to the board of ...

th, my wife, Sally, and I attended a noon media briefing at the National Press Club sponsored by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). It featured a film made by CIS' Director of National Security Policy, Janice Kephart, with substantial help from ...

The Obama administration had no choice but to challenge the constitutionality of Arizona's far-reaching immigration law, whatever the litigation's eventual outcome. Our experiences administering the nation's immigration system, under Republican and ...

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A candidate for president of Peru made a campaign stop Thursday to court the votes of an increasingly important constituency: Peruvians living abroad. Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Peru's imprisoned but popular former president Alberto Fujimori, added ...

Turkmenistan's State Customs Committee's officers and border guards recently received a five-day training at the Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER) Training Center in the U.S. city of Richland. According to the U.S. Embassy in ...

PHOENIX, July 23 (UPI) -- A lawyer for the U.S. government told a federal judge in Phoenix immigration regulation is "unquestionably, exclusively, a federal power." ...

An Arizona judge has heard arguments for and against a controversial state law criminalising illegal immigration that the federal government says is unconstitutional. Supported by most Arizonans and the US population, the law goes into effect next week, ...

BENSON, ARIZ.Paul Moncada, the silver-haired police chief of this highway town, spent a recent morning anxiously checking the TV for news about Arizonas controversial new immigration law, set to take effect in a matter of days. He sifted through ...

PHOENIX - The Arizona immigration law came under new legal scrutiny in a packed courtroom Thursday as a federal judge considered whether the crackdown should take effect next week amid a flurry of legal challenges. Judge Susan Bolton did not issue a ...