Aid groups hails US ruling on water for immigrants
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Aid groups welcomed Friday a US court ruling that leaving bottled water in the desert to help illegal immigrants hiking across into the United States from Mexico is not a crime.The appeal court in Las Original post |
US helping Mexico prosecute top drug lord
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The United States is collaborating with Mexico in bringing a recently arrested top drug lord to justice, a State Department spokeswoman said Friday refusing to say whether the United States was seekin Original post |
Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings
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Arizona governor says she was wrong about her beheadings claim disputed by rival during debateGov. Jan Brewer rose to national fame defending the state’s immigration law and warning of rising violence Original post |
Mexican drug kingpin gets 27 years in Ariz. prison
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Mexican drug kingpin sentenced to 27 years in Arizona prison for smuggling tons of marijuanaA Mexican man who prosecutors call the leader of a group that smuggled tons of marijuana into the U.S. has b Original post |
Canadian football player tests positive for HGH
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Scandal on Canadian football team produces first positive HGH test in North America
A steroid scandal in Original post |
Graft trial starts for former Guatemala leader
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – The embezzlement trial of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo, accused of stealing millions of dollars of public funds and wanted in the United States, began Friday Original post |
Four Mexican politicians die in plane crash
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OAXACA, Mexico (Reuters) – Two members of Mexico’s Congress and two local politicians were killed on Friday when their private plane crashed near a popular Mexican Pacific beach resort, officials said Original post |
State report urges Mexico to improve human rights
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Obama administration recommends withholding funds to Mexico, citing human rights concernsThe Obama administration said Friday that Mexico has met enough human rights requirements for the U.S. to relea Original post |
At least four dead in fresh clash in north Mexico
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At least four people died in a clash between soldiers and suspected drug gang members in northeastern Mexico, a day after 25 outlaws di Original post |
Mexican women work, die for gangs in drug war city
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – More women are working and dying for powerful drug cartels in Mexico’s most violent city as high unemployment along the U.S. border sucks desperate families into the Original post |
Velshi: It’s not as bad as you think
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As badly as so many people wanted today’s job numbers to confirm predictions of a double-dip recession, they didn’t.. . For perspective: most… Original post |
The Ten Things The Government Could Do To Cut Unemployment In Half
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Unemployment, according to a number of government officials and economists, has become intractable and the August jobless rate hit 9.6% as non-farm… Original post |
Tortuga Rum Cake Company named to Inc. Magazine’s Top 5,000 Fastest Growing Businesses in America
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For the fourth consecutive year, the Tortuga Rum Cake Company has been recognized “Given the economic times, we are especially proud of this… Original post |
Episcopal Church moves toward blessing gay unions
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The U.S. Episcopal Church gave its clergy the go-ahead on Friday to bless some same-sex unions, such as civil partnerships in states that legally … Original post |
‘Birth tourism’ a tiny portion of immigrant babies
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Arguments to bar citizenship for children of illegal immigrants miss vast majorities of babiesWhen Ruth Garcia’s twins are born in two months, they’ll have all the rights of U.S. citizens. They and th Original post |
Domestic, Global Economic Shifts Force US Organized Labor to Change
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Monday September 6 is Labor Day in the United States, a day set aside to honor American workers and the dignity of labor. The organized labor… Original post |
Should US government debt be rated junk?
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A few weeks ago, Hedgeye, the investment research firm where I’m a managing director, hosted a conference call for our subscribers that posed the … Original post |
Economists are making the case politicians are afraid to: Immigration is great for the U.S.
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If you pay attention only to politics, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the current debate about immigration in America is limited to how… Original post |
The Good Old Bad Days
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That’s how Time described the dismal state of the U.S. economy-in September 1992. The passage has been making the rounds in financial circles, a … Original post |
‘Working Girl’ Big Idea Needed for 1990s Redux: Caroline Baum
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The U.S. economy remains almost comatose….The current slump already ranks as the longest period of sustained weakness since the Great… Original post |
