New Mexico will host a meeting of U.S. and Mexican border governors, providing a new venue for a conference that was scrapped in Arizona because of a dispute over its new immigration enforcement law.
Source:New Mexico Will Now Host Border Governors Meeting
A controversy is brewing in Arizona over assertions by advocates of more stringent immigration laws that drug and human traffickers have beheaded illegal immigrants as a warning to rival cartels operating along the Arizona-Mexico border.
Source:Human Head Found in Arizona Fuels Political Debate
Some local officials are spending freely to post street signs that let people know the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — better known as the stimulus bill — has funded a highway project in a local neighborhoods, an expense that has Republicans blistering over why taxpayer money is being used to promote how taxpayer money [...]
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers says former assistant attorney general Jay Bybee’s comments about interrogation techniques are highly relevant to criminal probe.
Source:Bush Justice Attorney Says He Never Authorized Harsh Interrogation Techniques
Goldman Sachs & Co. has agreed to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges that accused the Wall Street giant of misleading buyers of mortgage-related investments.
Source:Goldman to Pay $550M to Settle Civil Fraud Charges
A Phoenix police officer could be fired if he doesn’t enforce the state’s new immigration law he has sued to block, an attorney told a federal judge Thursday in the first major hearing in one of seven challenges to the strict crackdown.
Source:Arizona Immigration Law Goes on Trial in First Court Hearing
The chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party called Thursday for a massive, eleventh-hour investigation into illegal voting by felons in the state’s bitterly contested 2008 Senate election.
Source:It's Time for a Closer Look into Whether Felons Voted in 2008, Minnesota GOP Chairman Says
Connecticut Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon, who gained fame and fortune with her husband by through their WWE empire and putting the smackdown on her opponents in the ring, is now on the ropes after a mother’s advocacy group released an ad attacking the sex and violence featured on the program.
Source:Dem Mothers' Group Slams McMahon [...]
The chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party called Thursday for a massive, eleventh-hour investigation into illegal voting by felons in the state’s bitterly contested 2008 Senate election.
Source:It's Time for a Closer Look into Whether Felons Voted in 2008, Minnesota GOP Chairman Says
The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia opened the door ever so slightly to talks with North Korea on Thursday by saying a dialogue is possible under the right circumstances.
Source:U.S. Cracks Open Door to Talks With North Korea
