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House immigration group reaches a deal
A bipartisan group of House members announced a deal Thursday on sweeping immigration legislation, a breakthrough that could boost chances for one of President Barack Obama's top second-term priorities. It came after months of secretive talks among the four Republican and four Democratic House members had seemed to stall in ...
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___ Wal-Mart's 1Q profit, sales disappoint NEW YORK (AP) — The first few months of the year were tough for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The world's largest retailer reported Thursday that its first-quarter profit edged up just slightly, and the company struggled with a sales slump in its namesake business during ...
AP News in Brief at 10:58 p.m. EDT
Damage control: Obama takes action on trio of controversies, but Republicans still unsatisfied WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred Internal Revenue Service Thursday and pressed Congress to approve new security money to ...
INFLUENCE GAME: Tech, labor spar on immigration
To the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some Democrats, it's more sinister: The push by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to expand the number of visas for high-tech foreign workers is an ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
Investigations of IRS' targeting of groups is continuing in wake of ouster of top official WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting commissioner. Three congressional committees are investigating and ...
Court denies US asylum to German home-schoolers
A federal appeals court has denied asylum to a Christian family that fled Germany so they could home-school their children, after ruling that U.S. immigration laws do not grant a safe haven to people everywhere who face restrictions that would be prohibited under the Constitution. Many American home-school families and ...
Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: May 15 Sacramento Bee on overreaching federal investigation of leak to AP threatens press freedoms: Protecting national security is one thing. Fishing expeditions that could intimidate and impede important watchdog reporting are another matter entirely. The Justice Department ...
Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: May 15 Sacramento Bee on overreaching federal investigation of leak to AP threatens press freedoms: Protecting national security is one thing. Fishing expeditions that could intimidate and impede important watchdog reporting are another matter entirely. The Justice Department ...
Longer US white majority if immigration slows
Without increased immigration, whites would lose their U.S. majority in 2046, three years beyond official projections, and the nation's population would not reach 400 million until after 2060, a decade or more later than forecast, according to census estimates Wednesday. In all, immigration will surpass natural increase — births minus ...
Correction: Immigration story
In a story May 14 about a Senate immigration bill, The Associated Press erroneously reported that two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers entered the U.S. on student visas. In fact only one of them did. A corrected version of the story is below: Senators tackle student visas in immigration ...
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