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HOUSTON, May 16 (UPI) -- Nineteen Texas border communities Friday asked a federal court to halt construction of 70 miles of border fencing, court documents show. The Houston Chronicle reported that the class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by the Texas Border Coalition will be...
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- Grants to aid cities in the event of terrorist attacks or natural disasters were announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The DHS announced more than $844 million would be made available to strengthen port security along with aid to help protect...
A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid, possibly while he was alive. Larissa Schuster, 47, was convicted in December of murdering Timothy Schuster with the...
Associated Press - May 16, 2008 11:43 PM ET RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia has turned down President Bush's in-person appeal for help in bringing down American gas prices by pumping more oil. The Saudi oil minister says supply and demand are in balance. WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) - Barack...
A drive by the Bush administration to build 110 kilometres of fencing along the Texas-Mexico border could be sidetracked by a lawsuit filed by 19 border communities yesterday.The lawsuit accused Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and others of failing to notify landowners of their...
The largest single immigration raid in the U.S., resulting in nearly 400 arrests earlier this week, violated the constitutional rights of workers at an Iowa meatpacking plant, a lawsuit filed in federal court says. The lawsuit accuses the government of arbitrary and indefinite detention. It seeks...
The Senate Armed Services Committee believes the government's new National Cyber Security Initiative is too secret to have much value as deterrence. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek The Senate Armed Services Committee believes the new National Cyber Security Initiative (NCSI) is too secret to...
Protester Says Fence 'Inefficient Allocation Of Law Enforcement Resources' SAN YSIDRO, Calif. -- In hopes of appealing to public officials to halt the project, a coalition of 21 community groups gathered Thursday to protest the erection of supplemental fencing along the border. The protesters...
Backup border fence would be built on dirt Environmentalists hoping to stop the filling of a steep canyon that would allow a secondary border fence to be built have been joined by several other local organizations, including human-rights and religious groups. Yesterday morning, representatives...
A federal class action lawsuit filed Thursday by immigrants arrested in the Postville raid allege Agriprocessors acquired false identification for workers, along with numerous allegations of abuse from supervisors. Antonin Trinidad Candido, Roman Trinidad Candido and Maria del Refugio Masias, all...
