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US Antiwar Protesters Arrested in Push to Post Signs
 Paul Schwartzman
More than a dozen police officers converged at a corner of Lafayette Square yesterday, bringing with them a horse and extra handcuffs. Their target: a handful of demonstrators who had gathered to post two signs on an electrical box advertising a protest march Sept. 15 against the Iraq war.
Death Toll From Felix Nears 100
 Olga R. Rodriguez
Rescuers scooped bodies from the open sea and villagers paddled canoes through fallen trees looking for survivors on this remote, swampy stretch of Caribbean coast as the death toll from Hurricane Felix neared 100.
Mexican Trucks Get Green Light to Cross Over
 Paul M. Krawzak
A controversial, long-delayed program to allow Mexican trucks to roam freely throughout the United States took effect last night after the U.S. Transportation Department granted the final approval.
Thompson Joins the GOP Race
 Liz Sidoti
Fred Thompson officially entered a wide-open Republican presidential race Thursday, vowing to invigorate a dispirited GOP and promising to thwart another Clinton from capturing the presidency.
Truckers Protest Mexican Trucks Program
 Elliot Spagat
Dozens of truckers waved signs and American flags at a border crossing Thursday to protest a program that will allow up to 100 Mexican trucking companies to freely haul their cargo anywhere in the United States.
Felix Toll Rises, Henriette Hits Mexico
 Ariel Leon
Felix Toll Rises, Henriette Hits MEX
Doctors treated storm casualties in a makeshift clinic Wednesday after powerful Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. The death toll rose to at least 18.
Short on Labor, California Farmers Moving Operations to Mexico
 San Francisco Sentinel
Steve Scaroni, a farmer from California, looked across a luxuriant field of lettuce here in central Mexico and liked what he saw: full-strength crews of Mexican farm workers with no immigration problems.
El Salvador Death Squads Still Operating
 Raúl Gutiérrez
Recent arrests of police officers in El Salvador accused of committing extrajudicial executions have encouraged human rights activists and experts who have long reported the continued existence of death squads in this Central American country.
Endangered Turtles Nesting on Texas Coast in Record Numbers
 Bill Hanna
Twenty years ago, they were on the verge of extinction. But the Kemp's ridley sea turtle, still the world's most endangered sea turtle, appears to be on its way back.
Storms Blow Into Record Books
 Paul Kiernan
Eight hours after Felix roared into Central America, Henriette slammed into the resort-studded tip of the Baja California peninsula. Never before had an Atlantic and a Pacific hurricane made landfall on the same date.
Felix Weakens But Prompts Fears of Massive Flooding
 CNN
Felix was barely clinging to hurricane status Tuesday, but the storm still posed a "major flood threat" and could dump as much as 2 feet of rain in some areas, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Crackdown Intensifying on US Truckers Who Can't Speak English
 The Trucker
Interstate truck and bus drivers across America may find themselves pulled off the highway if state troopers or vehicle inspectors find they can't speak English. The requirement has been on the books for decades, but enforcement has begun before Mexican trucks are allowed in the U.S.
It's Showtime on the US Campaign Trail
 John Whitesides
After months of grand rhetoric, endless fundraising and heavy campaigning, the 2008 presidential race kicks into even higher gear this week at the start of a four-month sprint to the first votes.
New Entry Checks Mean Longer Lines to Enter US
 Matt Pitts
Stepped-up inspections at the Canadian and Mexican borders are producing longer lines for people entering the U.S. Renewed checks of ID's for people entering the U.S. - even if they're American citizens - are nearly as bad as they were right after Nine-Eleven.
Peru: Little Help for Slum-Dwellers Left Homeless by Quake
 Ángel Páez
The Aug. 15 earthquake, which marked 7.0 on the Richter scale, was most destructive of the weakest buildings, like homes built out of adobe bricks, the building material widely used in Peru’s irregular settlements where virtually all the residents are poor, and half of them are extremely poor.
Border Ferry, Drawn by Hand, Remains Last of Its Kind
 Michelle Roberts
Even in an age of laser visas and aerial drone patrols, this sleepy spot where the United States and Mexico meet on the Rio Grande has barely changed in two generations.
Bush Faces Mounting Woes on Iraq
 Robert Burns And Pauline Jelinek
President Bush huddled with top military leaders about the Iraq war last Friday, and Pentagon officials defended efforts to rid the Iraqi national police of sectarian bias and corruption, even as an independent review found the force too tainted to continue.
Oklahoma Law Puts New Focus on Immigration
 Laura Kellams
The sponsor of Oklahoma’s sweeping new immigration law said he hopes the get-tough measure inspires his state’s illegal alien population to pack up and move somewhere else — somewhere like Arkansas.
Court: Mexican Trucks Program to Proceed
 Jordan Robertson
The Bush administration can go ahead with a pilot program to allow as many as 100 Mexican trucking companies to freely haul their cargo anywhere within the U.S. for the next year, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Teacher Protest Shuts Down Border for a Time
 Steve Schmidt, Karen Kucher & Anna Cearley
Traffic is back to normal at the border crossings after a teachers union demonstration in Tijuana led to highway closures between San Diego and Tijuana for several hours Friday.
US Presidential Candidate on Two Tickets
 Peace and Freedom Party
In April of 2007, Stewart Alexander was the first candidate to announce that he would seek the nomination for president on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket in California. Now Alexander is seeking the nomination of the Socialist Party USA.
US Border Patrol Agent Wants Federal Trial
 Associated Press
A Border Patrol agent charged with murder in the shooting of an illegal immigrant is asking to have his case moved from state to federal court, and prosecutors aren't objecting.
Brown To Prosecute Violent Mexican Mafia Cell in San Diego
 California Chronicle
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the “total dismantlement” of a significant Mexican Mafia cell in Imperial and San Diego Counties after a twenty-month investigation led to the indictment of 31 mafia members.
Noriega Appears Fated to Head to France
 Carmen Gentile
Former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega is one step closer to facing money laundering charges in France following his lengthy and storied stay in a U.S. prison.
Iowa Judge Rules Against Gay Marriage Ban
 Associated Press
A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa's law banning gay marriage. The ruling by Judge Robert Hanson concluded that the state's prohibition on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and he ordered the Polk County recorder to issue marriage licenses to six gay couples.
Prisoner Releases Under Raúl Castro Raise Hope for Cuba
 Howard LaFranchi
When prominent Cuban human rights advocate Francisco Chaviano was released earlier this month after 13 years in prison, he joined the growing list of political dissidents set free in the year since Fidel Castro, sidelined by poor health, ceded power to his brother Raúl.
Europeans Like Hillary for President
 Agence France-Presse
More than four in 10 French and Germans would like to see Democratic candidate and former first lady Hillary Clinton elected US president in 2008, a survey by a Canadian pollster showed on Wednesday.
Anger, Sadness Mark Katrina Anniversary
 Associated Press
On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, anger over the stalled rebuilding was palpable Wednesday throughout the city where the mourning for the dead and feeling of loss doesn't seem to subside.
US Teamsters to Try to Block Mexican Trucks
 Jesse J. Holland
The Teamsters Union said Wednesday it will ask a federal appeals courts to block the Bush administration's plan to begin allowing Mexican trucks to carry cargo anywhere in the United States.
Victim: Kidnappers Unafraid to Commit Mexican-Style Crime in U.S.
 Associated Press
A Mexican businessman testified that his Mexican captors boasted they were unafraid to kidnap people in the United States as they tortured him in a suburban home.
US Most Armed Country With 90 Guns Per 100 People
 Laura MacInnis
The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world. U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.
Immigration Reform Coalitions in Los Angeles Rejoin, Call for Consumer Boycott
 Associated Press
After splintering over a year ago, two Los Angeles immigrant coalitions joined forces while calling for a Sept. 12 consumer boycott in favor of immigration reform.
Pro-Migrant Hunger Strike Starts
 Alfredo Corchado
A group of women here began a weeklong hunger strike Monday, the latest effort by border activists to bring attention to the plight of illegal immigrants.
Left, Right Unite to Oppose North American Union
 Barry Brown
America's right-wing and Canada's "loony left" have found common ground — both are horrified at the thought of a North American Union modeled on Europe.
US Army Pays Big Bucks Bonuses to New Recruits
 Agence France-Presse
Nearly all new US Army recruits are receiving a special 20,000-dollar bonus, an official said Monday, amid debate over whether the Pentagon is eroding standards to shore up its stretched ranks.
Poll: Young Voters Disenchanted With Republican Party
 Carla Marinucci
Young Americans have become so profoundly alienated from Republican ideals on issues including the war in Iraq, global warming, same-sex marriage and illegal immigration that their defections suggest a political setback that could haunt Republicans "for many generations to come."
Drug Violence Spills Over the Border from Mexico
 Associated Press
The trial last month of American citizen Rosalio "Bart" Reta, combined with the case against a co-defendant and interviews with law enforcement officials, has cast a spotlight on a new danger along the border.
Afghan Opium Crop Hits Record
 David Rohde
Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a staggering 45 percent increase in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand Province, according to a UN survey.
US Troops Almost Captured bin Laden
 Agence France-Presse
US forces in Afghanistan came so close to discovering Osama bin Laden in the winter of 2004-2005 that his supporters were on the verge of killing him to prevent his capture, a US magazine reported Sunday.
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