Time: As Nancy Pelosi goes, so might a generation of her colleagues. If Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives next week, as most political observers expect, there is a good chance that the House Speaker will opt to spend time with her eight grandchildren rather than toil in the relative obscurity of the [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Signaling another partisan fight over immigration enforcement after next week’s midterm elections, all seven Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee signed a letter last week asking the Department of Homeland Security how much money it needs to deport every illegal immigrant the government encounters. The request came in an Oct. 21 letter [...]
Fox News: The Justice Department is sending a small pack of election observers to Arizona as Hispanic groups sound the alarm over an anti-illegal immigration group’s mass e-mail seeking to recruit Election Day volunteers to help block illegal immigrants from voting. Hispanic voting rights groups say the e-mail is just an attempt to intimidate minority [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) – The director of a maximum-security federal prison notorious for the escape of Mexico’s top kingpin was arrested for alleged ties to drug gangs, authorities said Friday. Francisco Javier Gomez Meza was arrested Thursday on suspicion of links to organized crime while he was a top official at the federal Attorney General’s [...]
Politico: There may be no clear message and few details about what exactly is supposed to happen, but with tens of thousands of people expected to attend Saturday’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert rally, progressive groups are piggybacking on the action. Abortion-rights supporters, marijuana fans, environmental activists, government watchdogs and the Democratic National Committee all [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – She might have been too young for grade school, but a judge says a New York City girl was old enough to be sued over a bicycle accident that happened when she was 4. A Manhattan judge refused earlier this month to toss out negligence claims against Juliet Breitman. She, her [...]
Politico: Immigrant workers have gained jobs since the recession ended, while native-born Americans continued to lose work, a new report finds. The Pew Hispanic Center released a report Friday that shows foreign-born residents gained 656,000 jobs from June 2009 to June 2010. At the same time, workers born in the country lost 1.2 million jobs. [...]
The Hill: A Republican takeover of the House will reorder the relationship between the top-ranking GOP leaders in Washington, Rep. John Boehner (Ohio) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Republican insiders say. For the past two years, McConnell, the Senate minority leader, has been the most powerful elected Republican in the federal government. Since January of [...]
USA Today: WASHINGTON — Voters say they want change.
CNN: U.S. officials say that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a fairly new arm of the umbrella terrorist organization, is behind an apparent plot to send explosive devices to U.S. destinations via cargo planes. “Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has been open in its venom toward the United States,” John Brennan, a senior [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama declared Friday that authorities had uncovered a “credible terrorist threat” against the United States following the overseas discovery of U.S.-bound packages containing explosives aboard cargo jets. Obama said both had been addressed to Jewish organizations in the Chicago area. The disclosures triggered a worldwide alert amid fears that al-Qaida [...]
