The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, SB 1070, on April 25. The justices will hear an appeal by the state of an appeal’s court ruling that upheld an injunction blocking much of the law.... Read more»
1
Even by Ciudad Juarez’s grim standards, a threat from a Mexican drug cartel to kill an officer a day until the city’s police chief steps down is being seen as an unusually terrifying escalation in the violence.... Read more»
The White House was on the defensive Thursday over its requirement that church-affiliated employers cover birth control after House Speaker John Boehner called the order unconstitutional.... Read more»1
House members accused Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday of stonewalling their probe of Operation Fast and Furious, and threatened him with contempt unless the Justice Department hands over thousands more documents.... Read more»1
News companies and their executives donated more than $350,000 to conservative super PACs in 2011, according to financial disclosure forms filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission.... Read more»
Republican senators proposed a plan that would spare the U.S. military from nearly $500 billion in automatic spending cuts next January by reducing the federal workforce instead.... Read more»
Egyptian Football Association officials, along with officials in Port Said, have been fired following the riots after Wednesday’s soccer match between Al Masry and Al Ahly, in which 74 people died.... Read more»
Every Feb. 2, it’s time for the obligatory Groundhog Day story. Here in the Sentinel newsroom, we’d rather watch the same old Youtube videos than check whether some rodent is having a bad hair day. Enjoy!... Read more»
The FDA has hit the American Red Cross with a nearly $10 million fine for safety violations, lax oversight and faulty testing of its blood services. The fine is just the latest of more than a dozen the Red Cross has racked up in the last decade.... Read more»
The director of engineering for a Phoenix-based manufactured-home company told Congress on Wednesday that a federal agency’s inefficient handling of regulations has contributed to an 80 percent drop in construction in his industry since 2000.... Read more»
You don’t need a Ph.D. in boulangerie to know Mitt Romney has always been more brioche than Wonder Bread guy.... Read more»
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that U.S. troops in Afghanistan would step out of combat into an “advise-and-assist” role in Afghanistan as early as mid-2013.... Read more»
U.S. law enforcement agencies are exposing people to radiation in more settings and in increasing doses to screen for explosives, weapons and drugs. In addition to the controversial airport body scanners, X-ray devices have proliferated in prisons, on the streets of New York and at our borders.... Read more»
Sen. John McCain incorrectly claimed that earmarks nearly doubled from $7.8 billion to $14.5 billion in Newt Gingrich’s first two years as House speaker. Actually, the increase was about half that.... Read more»
Flub comes a day after Romney swept the Florida primary, and the sound bite in which he says, “I’m not concerned about the very poor,” could haunt him in the general election if he becomes the GOP nominee.... Read more»2
1131288655
