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Financial Times: US banks are taking advantage of improving earnings and growing investor demand to raise billions of dollars in debt at historically low interest rates, a move that could boost the sector’s profits in coming years. The burst of fundraising in the US is in stark contrast to Europe where banks have struggled to [...]

PHOENIX (AP) — Lost in the hoopla over Arizona’s immigration law is the fact that state and local authorities for years have been doing their own aggressive crackdowns in the busiest illegal gateway into the country. Nowhere in the U.S. is local enforcement more present than in metropolitan Phoenix, where Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio [...]

Broward-Palm Beach.com: At an undisclosed location north of Palm Beach, Wellington resident Vanilla Ice — also known as Rob Van Winkle — finally completed a stunt he’s been working on and planning for months. He lit a ’67 Cadillac on fire, then drove it off a jump and into a lake. Rob bought the car [...]

National Review Online: According to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo going the rounds of Capitol Hill and obtained by National Review, the agency is considering ways in which it could enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action” — that is, without the consent of the American people through a vote in Congress. [...]

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When criminals seek to control or topple the governments of a nation, they are, in fact, insurgents. And as these insurgents spread northward, they will wage their insurgency against the local governments of the American towns that they need to operate unmolested in. MEXICO CITY (AP) – One of the top three leaders of Mexico’s [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – On the surface, a judge’s decision to block tough provisions of Arizona’s immigration law was a defeat for the state’s Republican governor and a win for the Democratic Obama administration. But neither party is sure it will play out that way politically, either this fall or beyond. Keeping the illegal-immigration issue burning [...]

Rasmussen: Support for the building of a fence along the Mexican border has reached a new high, and voters are more confident than ever that illegal immigration can be stopped. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 68% of U.S. voters now believe the United States should continue to build a fence on [...]

The Hill: There is no chance of Congress implementing a value-added tax (VAT), a top House Democrat said Thursday. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said on CNBC that the VAT was “as dead as a doornail,” despite Republicans’ caution that Democrats might try to pass one. The Massachusetts [...]

PHOENIX (AP) – Arizona asked an appeals court Thursday to lift a judge’s order blocking most of the state’s immigration law as the city of Phoenix filled with protesters, including about 50 who were arrested for confronting officers in riot gear. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer called U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton’s Wednesday decision halting the [...]

Politico: The Environmental Protection Agency Thursday rejected an effort to keep it from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, saying that e-mails released in last fall’s “Climategate” scandal gave it no reason to reconsider the science of global warming. In a sternly written opinion, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said she didn’t agree with requests from the GOP [...]