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Brain Development and Intelligence Linked, Study Says
 Shankar Vedantam
The brains of very intelligent children appear to develop in a distinctive and surprising way that distinguishes them from less intelligent children, a federal study reported yesterday.more »»»
Plans for U.S.-Mexico Border Fence Draw Fire
 Tim Gaynor
Hurling himself over a steel fence into the no-man's-land between Mexico and California, an undocumented migrant sprints across a narrow strip lit by harsh arc lights and watched over by video cameras on tall posts. Before he can shin up a second barrier of tall concrete pillars topped with seismic sensors and a layer of steel mesh more, U.S. Border Patrol agents close in fast and arrest him.more »»»
Army Relaxes Tattoo Rules to Attract Recruits
 Will Dunham
The U.S. Army, which missed its recruiting goal last year, has relaxed its policy banning certain types of tattoos in a bid to attract new soldiers who otherwise would have been barred from serving.more »»»
G.O.P. Risking Hispanic Votes on Immigration
 David D. Kirkpatrick
The battle among Republicans over immigration policy and border security is threatening to undercut a decade-long effort by President Bush and his party to court Hispanic voters, just as both parties are gearing up for the 2006 elections.more »»»
Immigrants' Voice Reaches the Hill
 John Pomfret & Sonya Geis
Arturo Hernandez, an illegal immigrant, learned about a bill that had passed the House that would turn him - and the church that helps his family with child care, his employers in the tony Brentwood section of Los Angeles and the hospitals that treat his family - into felons.more »»»
US Immigration Issue Roiling Both Sides of Debate
 MSNBC
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protested moves to impose stricter U.S. immigration laws in California on Saturday, while President Bush urged wary Republicans to take up his proposal.more »»»
Cuban Retirees Condemn Bush's Plan to Takeover Cuba
 ACN
Cuban retirees and pensioners joined growing national clamor against the Bush administration's so-called Plan to Assist a Free Cuba, during a demonstration held this week at Havana's Jose Marti Anti-imperialist Plaza. Ministers and vice ministers from eight countries and experts on international bodies were also on hand for the event.more »»»
Interviews Reveal Pattern of Police Abuse of Gay People
 Amnesty International
Thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people across the USA are victims of a system that fuels discrimination and facilitates torture, ill-treatment and impunity, said Amnesty International today as it launched a report on police abuses against people on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.more »»»
Mexico Optimistic of Breakthrough on Immigration
 Will Weissert
Mexico said this week it is optimistic that a major breakthrough granting legal status to some of the millions of its undocumented citizens in the United States could be on the way.more »»»
Iraq: US News Media's Waterloo
 Robert Parry
For more than three decades, the U.S. news media has been living off - or living down, depending on your perspective - its Watergate-era reputation of helping to unseat a power-abusing President and exposing a raft of other political scandals.more »»»
Chavez Pours Oil on Troubled Waters
 Jonathan Beale
There is little love lost between the presidents of the United States and Venezuela. Hugo Chavez calls George W Bush a terrorist - the US president accuses him of being a left-wing dictator.more »»»
Latin American Leftists Redefine Politics
 Traci Carl
A new wave of Latin American leaders - variously labeled leftist, populist, nationalist or socialist - is redefining politics in a region where U.S.-backed, right-wing dictatorships spent decades crushing their mostly leftist opponents and supporting corporate interests amid fears of inroads by the Soviet Union and its Cuban proxy.more »»»
Iraq War Resisters Stage 241-Mile Peace March Across US-Mexico Border
 Democracy Now!
A group of anti-war protesters are staging a 241-mile march for peace across the Mexico-US border and through California. We speak with one of the march's key organizers, Pablo Paredes. He is an Iraq war resister who refused orders to board a ship in 2004 heading to Iraq.more »»»
Impeachment Talk Reaches the Mainstream
 William Goodman
From the Wall Street Journal to MSNBC, talk of impeachment is no longer on the fringe. The groundswell for Bush's impeachment is growing, and last week the establishment media finally took notice.more »»»
Mexico's Abortion Law
 Betsy Illingworth
The governor of South Dakota recently signed a law criminalizing abortion in the state, and anti-choice forces in several other state legislatures are promoting similar bills. To see how these laws could affect women in these states, we don't need to look any farther than our neighbor to the south, Mexico.more »»»
Lessons of Iraq War Start With US History
 Howard Zinn
On the third anniversary of President Bush's Iraq debacle, it's important to consider why the administration so easily fooled so many people into supporting the war. I believe there are two reasons, which go deep into our national culture.more »»»
More News Outlets, Fewer Stories: New Media 'Paradox'
 James Rainey
A "new paradox of journalism" has emerged in which the number of news outlets continues to grow, yet the number of stories covered and the depth of many reports is decreasing, according to an annual review of the news business being released today by a watchdog group.more »»»
Mexico — The Fraud of the Century
 Alvaro Vargas Llosa
A secret report commissioned by the Mexican government on Mexico’s “dirty war” under the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the 1970s has caused a major scandal after being leaked to the press. It accuses the military of carrying out a genocidal policy against suspected subversives in the south between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1980s.more »»»
Mexican Presidential Campaign Dull Yet Intriguing
 Carlos Luken
Mexico’s major parties are showing signs of concern and anxiety as weekly poll numbers reveal their inability to encourage important political shifts in voter preferences.more »»»
FBI Cites More Than 100 Possible Eavesdropping Violations
 Dan Eggen
The FBI reported more than 100 possible violations to an intelligence oversight board over the past two years, including cases in which agents tapped the wrong telephone, intercepted the wrong e-mails or continued to listen to conversations after a warrant had expired.more »»»
Expatriates' Vote May Hold Key to Change in Mexico
 Bill Mundell
"Shameful" is the word that Mexican President Vicente Fox has used, seemingly without irony, to decribe American proposals to build a fence among the two nations' massive border.more »»»
Unnatural Selection
 Morris B. Hoffman
The side show of jury selection all too often takes over the circus in American trials. And the central culprit in that takeover is the peremptory challenge, a practice by which lawyers may exclude a certain number of prospective jurors without having to prove, or even state, a justification.more »»»
Veep Doo-Doo
 Hendrik Hertzberg
According to a CBS News poll released last Monday, the "favorability" rating of Vice-President Dick Cheney has sunk to a new low. How low a low? Well, the proportion of Americans who have a favorable opinion of Cheney is outweighed by the proportion of dentists who recommend sugary gum for their patients who chew gum.more »»»
Impeachment Proves Risky Political Issue
 Jeanne Cummings
ImpeachPAC's Web site lists 14 candidates offering commitments for removing Bush from office, which are reminiscent of the Republican drive to oust former President Bill Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.more »»»
Details Emerge in Latest Plame Emails
 Jason Leopold
The White House confirmed Tuesday that it recently turned over to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald 250 pages of emails from the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney related to covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband.more »»»
Mexico City Tells U.S. Hotel to Shut After Cuban Flap
 Kevin G. Hall
City officials ordered the closing of a major U.S.-owned hotel Tuesday in Mexico City, four weeks after it became the center of a diplomatic flap when U.S. Treasury Department officials ordered it to expel a delegation of Cuban officials.more »»»
Mexican Solidarity with Cuba to be Reinforced
 Prensa Latina
Delegates to the 11th National Solidarity with Cuba Conference here decided to develop greater efficiency and coordination at national level for their solidarity actions with the people of the island and its Revolution.more »»»
When Americans No Longer Own America
 Thom Hartmann
The Dubai Ports World deal is waking Americans up to a painful reality: So-called "conservatives" and "flat world" globalists have bankrupted our nation for their own bag of silver, and in the process are selling off America.more »»»
Mexican Heroes, not Chavez or Lula, Inspire Leftist
 Alistair Bell
The man favored to win Mexico's presidential election is often compared to the new breed of Latin American left-wing leaders but he prefers to delve deep into Mexican history to find his role models.more »»»
Sizing Up the Opposing Armies in the Coming Abortion Battle
 Monica Davey
Beyond the borders of South Dakota and its fewer than 800,000 residents, no one pays much attention to the long list of bills to restrict abortion every year. But last week, when they passed the most sweeping abortion ban in the country in more than a decade, the reverberations reached far beyond quiet Pierre.more »»»
Living by the US-Mexico Barrier
 Franc Contreras
An intense debate is under way in the United States over what to do about illegal immigration. The Senate is soon to take up the issue, studying a controversial bill that would see the construction of 1,130km (700 miles) of fencing along parts of the border with Mexico.more »»»
March to America
 Liz Chandler & Dánica Coto
It's early January, the first week of migration season, and people from across Mexico arrive here by the busload, preparing for their journey north. The Arizona border lies 60 miles away. Beyond that is a desert walk with rugged terrain, rattlesnakes, border patrols and bandits.more »»»
White House 'Discovers' 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak
 Jason Leopold
The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. Senior aides had sent the emails in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed.more »»»
Have U.S. Products Lost Their Cool?
 Clayton Collins
Offer to buy the world a Coke and you'll probably find plenty of takers. But try to sell the iconic American drink, and you might meet with some ambivalence among youths these days, particularly abroad.more »»»
Could this be the End of Roe V Wade?
 Clare Murphy
The South Dakota legislators who have approved a bill all but outlawing abortions in the sparsely populated state have loftier aims - an end to the Supreme Court ruling which made terminations legal across America more than 30 years ago.more »»»
Survey Finds Many Mexican Immigrants Well-Educated, Own Cars
 John C. Drake
A survey by University of South Carolina researchers finds that more than 40 percent of Mexican immigrant workers in the state have a high school education. Researchers say the findings indicate the state's Mexican worker population is unsettled, but better educated than previously assumed.more »»»
Logging Off on China
 Robert B. Reich
The Republican chairman of the House subcommittee on human rights calls it a "sickening collaboration." A leading Democrat says it's a "disgrace," and asks how the companies' chief executives can sleep at night. They're talking about American internet companies who are helping the Chinese government suppress free speech in China.more »»»
AAAS Denounces 'Anti-Evolution' Legislation
 Clive Cookson
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, supported by 30 other scientific and educational organisations, adopted a declaration denouncing "anti-evolution" legislation that is pending in 14 states across the US.more »»»
Former Braceros and Zapatistas Unite to End the System that Beats Them Down
 Bertha Rodríguez Santos
As old workers of the fields, as guardians of the knowledge that makes them part of that other Mexico that jumps to defend its land and territory, more than a thousand former “Braceros” publicly joined the Other Campaign, while Marcos showed the warmth, respect and support that the indigenous Zapatistas hold toward this struggle.more »»»
Hurdles Frustrate Mexican Voters
 Katherine Corcoran
It's a refrain repeated across the country. Of an estimated 4 million people in the United States who are eligible to vote in Mexico, little more than 1 percent have registered, according to numbers released last week by Mexican Federal Electoral Institute, or IFE.more »»»
Texans, Mexicans Worlds Apart on Immigration
 Angela Shah & Dianne Solís
Two decades ago, Alan Riding first characterized U.S.-Mexico relations in his book title, Distant Neighbors. Now, two polls show that, when it comes to immigration, the metaphor still applies.more »»»
Scientists Enlist Clergy in Evolution Battle
 Reuters
American scientists fighting back against creationism, intelligent design and other theories that seek to deny or downgrade the importance of evolution have recruited unlikely allies - the clergy.more »»»
False Document Venders, Criminal Aliens, and the Arizona Borders
 John W. Slagle
Counterfeit and false document venders have been involved in criminal activities world wide for centuries. Identity documents, birth certificates, bills of sale to any item needed for any purpose is available.more »»»
Californians United in Solutions to Illegal Immigration
 Mark Baldassare & Hans Johnson
A dozen years ago, the California governor's election was defined by a television commercial with the simple phrase "they keep coming" and footage of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico bordermore »»»
Bedrock of a Mormonism is Jolted, DNA Tests Contradict Mormon Scripture
 William Lobdell
From the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose A. Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans were descended from a lost tribe of Israel that reached the New World more than 2,000 years ago.more »»»
Latest U.S.-Cuba Conflict May Have Greatest Repercussions in Mexico
 Eduardo Stanley
A recent energy meeting between American businessmen and a Cuban delegation was cut short when the staff of the María Isabel Sheraton hotel, located in downtown Mexico City, expelled the Cuban representatives under pressure from Washington.more »»»
Profile of Immigrants Changing
 Hugh Dellios
First it was the men. Now the women are disappearing too. The sewing machines sit quiet in the workshop where this little village dreamed of creating jobs and keeping its residents at home. Of the 15 women who started out in the sewing co-op two years ago, only six are still around.more »»»
Numbers
 Cindy Sheehan
The now famous black shirt with white lettering that I was wearing on January 31st to the State of the Union address originally read: 2000 Dead. How many more? That shirt was made by Veterans for Peace on the occasion of the 2000th US soldier killed in Iraq.more »»»
Specter Says Surveillance Program Violated the Law
 Brian Knowlton
The Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee said today that he believed the Bush administration had violated the law with its warrantless surveillance program and that its legal justifications for the program were "strained and unrealistic."more »»»
The End of the Internet?
 Jeff Chester
The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.more »»»
Bush & the Bullfight
 Robert Parry
Forget the donkey. National Democrats might want to adopt some of the fighting spirit demonstrated by a half-ton bull that disrupted a Mexico City bullfight by jumping into the stands to scatter customers sitting in the highest-priced front-row seats.more »»»
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