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FILE - In this May 20, 2013 file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., left, confers with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., as the Senate Judiciary Committee assembled to work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Leading senators working on immigration legislation reached a compromise Tuesday on the details of an expanded high-tech visa program, officials said as the Senate Judiciary Committee neared completion of its work on the measure. At the same time, several officials said the White House has made it known to Leahy that it would prefer postponing a showdown over the rights of same sex spouses until a vote in the full Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Officials: US senators reach high-tech visa deal

Leading senators working to resolve a key issue in the first major U.S. immigration legislation in two decades have agreed to a compromise covering expansion of a high-tech visa program, officials said Tuesday, resolving one of two major hurdles to passage in committee. The deal aimed to resolve the interests ...

  • Updated: 1:10 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Minn. session '13: What got done, what didn't

Minnesota state lawmakers promised when the legislative session began that their top priority was setting a new state budget. To that end, they produced a $38.3 billion two-year spending plan that hikes taxes on top income earners and on cigarettes, and distributes hefty spending increases to public schools, freezes tuition ...

  • Updated: 12:24 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Recent editorials from Texas newspapers

El Paso Times. May 20, 2013. Military 'crisis': Sex crimes seen as epidemic The nation's top military leaders admit that they've failed to check an epidemic of sexual assault and sexual harassment in our uniformed services. "We're losing the confidence of the women who serve that we can solve this ...

  • Updated: 11:01 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, confers with the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, as the committee assembles to work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions. The panel is aiming to pass the legislation out of committee this week, setting up a high-stakes debate on the Senate floor. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Officials: Senators reach deal on high-tech visas

Leading senators working on immigration legislation reached a compromise Tuesday on the details of an expanded high-tech visa program, officials said as the Senate Judiciary Committee neared completion of its work on the measure. At the same time, several officials said the White House has made it known to Sen. ...

  • Updated: 10:57 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

AP Sources: Obama ok punting gay immigration idea

Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy that it would be best to put off a controversy over gay marriage until a bill goes before the full Senate. President Barack Obama backs the proposal to give equal treatment ...

  • Updated: 9:32 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

NC immigration bill advances to House floor

A bill granting driving privileges to North Carolina residents who are living in the country illegally is headed to the state House floor. The bill that cleared the House Finance Committee Tuesday extends driving privileges and authorizes police to detain those reasonably suspected of living in the country illegally. The ...

  • Updated: 8:57 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Moroccan police find 5 drowned would be migrants

Morocco's state news agency says that police have rescued seven immigrants in a boat off the Mediterranean coast and found five bodies in the sea. The report late Monday said those rescued included four women, who were sent to the local hospital. The northern Moroccan city of Nador is located ...

  • Updated: 7:22 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

SC--Daybook

BC-SC--Daybook South Carolina Daybook Associated Press South Carolina daybook for Tuesday, May 21 May 21. 11:30 a.m. IMMIGRATION COALITION-PRESS CONFERENCE — The South Carolina Immigration Coalition and bipartisan partners will hold a press conference to urge support for Senate Bill 744 -- The Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization ...

  • Updated: 4:16 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2012 file photo, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, center, fields questions from reporters as he walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill. "This is an agreement that we need to build toward a biometric visa exit system," said Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who offered the amendment by Hatch, who was absent Monday. "Implementing this biometric exit system is long overdue." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports

Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in private Monday as they drove toward expected Judiciary Committee approval by mid-week. In a long day of drafting, the panel voted to begin phasing in a requirement for foreigners to undergo fingerprinting ...

  • Updated: 4:23 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013

Island immigrants to get standard Ore. licenses

The Legislature has agreed that Oregon residents from three Pacific Ocean island nations won't have to renew their driver's licenses each year. The state Senate unanimously passed the bill on Monday, sending it to Gov. John Kitzhaber. The Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the ...

  • Updated: 2:10 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013
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