Janet Napolitano Headlines
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GOP: Stronger borders or immigration bill will die
Landmark immigration legislation is doomed to fail in Congress unless border-security provisions are greatly strengthened, Republican senators bluntly warned on Tuesday. "If in fact the American people can't trust that the border is controlled, you're never going to be able to pass this bill," declared Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, ...
Republicans question security in immigration bill
Republican senators criticized border security provisions in a new immigration bill Tuesday, arguing that the landmark legislation can't pass Congress unless the measures are strengthened. "If in fact the American people can't trust that the border is controlled you're not going to be able to pass this bill," said Sen. ...
Boston bomb suspect died of gunshots, blunt trauma
A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, a funeral director said Friday. Worcester funeral home owner Peter Stefan has 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body and read details from his death certificate. The certificate cites Tsarnaev's "gunshot wounds of torso ...
US orders new visa checks for arriving students
The U.S. Homeland Security Department ordered border agents to verify that every international student who arrives in the country has a valid student visa, according to an internal memorandum obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The new procedure is the government's first security change directly related to the Boston Marathon ...
US orders new visa reviews for arriving students
The Homeland Security Department ordered border agents to verify that every international student who arrives in the U.S. has a valid student visa, according to an internal memorandum obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The new procedure is the government's first security change directly related to the Boston bombings. The ...
Boston Marathon suspect's remains claimed
A mortuary familiar with Muslim services will handle funeral arrangements for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in a gunbattle with police after an intense manhunt, a funeral director said Friday. Peter Stefan, owner of Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, confirmed his facility will handle ...
Rubio seeks to boost border language in new bill
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio says a new immigration bill he helped write needs stronger border security provisions or it will fail in the House and may even have trouble getting through the Senate. Rubio, who is the chief emissary to conservatives on the contentious legislation, said in a radio ...
Remains of Boston Marathon bombing suspect claimed
The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was the subject of a massive manhunt and died in a gunbattle with police, was claimed on Thursday. Department of Public Safety spokesman Terrel Harris said a funeral home retained by Tsarnaev's family picked up the 26-year-old's remains. He had ...
GOP senator wants info on student in Boston case
A top Republican senator asked the Obama administration Thursday to explain how a student from Kazakhstan charged with trying to help get rid of evidence for one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects managed to enter the country without a valid student visa. In a three-page letter to Homeland Security ...
A sampling of editorials from around New York
Newsday on political corruption in New York state and doubts lawmakers will take meaningful action. April 26 This is how entrenched and notorious the culture of "pay to play" has become in New York politics. Preet Bharara, the latest in crusading U.S. attorneys, recounted a meeting he had with George ...
Obama: US reviews whether intel missed in bombing
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. will review whether any sensitive intelligence was missed that could have prevented the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon but said his counterterrorism bureaucracy "did what it was supposed to be doing." Obama told a news conference that the review, which will ...
Information sharing before bombings under review
President Barack Obama said Tuesday his counterterrorism bureaucracy "did what it was supposed to be doing" before the Boston Marathon bombing as his top intelligence official began a review into whether sensitive information was adequately shared and whether the U.S. government could have disrupted the attack. "We want to go ...
Boston bomb suspect moved; FBI probe shifts focus
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was moved from a hospital to a federal prison medical center while FBI agents shifted the focus of their investigation to how the deadly plot was pulled off and searched for evidence Friday in a landfill near the college he attended. Tsarnaev, 19, was ...
Ex-Maricopa County attorney campaigns for governor
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, who was disbarred for failed corruption investigations that he and county Sheriff Joe Arpaio launched against political opponents, has entered Arizona's 2014 gubernatorial race, joining a growing list of candidate jostling to replace Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. Thomas, who continues to maintain his innocence ...
GOP rep weighs asylum review in immigration bill
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Thursday that the way the U.S. grants asylum to immigrants may need to be addressed after the Boston Marathon bombing. Accused Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are ethnic Chechen brothers from Russia who came to the United States about a ...
Some oppose study of Canada border crossing fee
A federal Department of Homeland Security proposal to study charging a fee for people entering the United States by land from Canada and Mexico is being criticized by some members of Congress and residents from the Northeast who say a fee would stymie cross-border business and trips to visit family ...
New immigration policy opens opportunities for Sun City youth
President Barack Obama's administration is making a big change in immigration policy, choosing to grant temporary relief of deportation for immigrants. The administration said it is not amnesty but stops the deportation of people under the age of 30 who entered the U.S. illegally as children. They must have arrived ...
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