Archive for the Category ‘U.S.’

Fence Frustrates Minutemen, Too

Fence Frustrates Minutemen, Too

CAMPO, Calif.—Jim Wood doesn’t think the U.S. government is adequately guarding the border with Mexico here. So he has taken on the job himself. While the federal government fumbles with mishaps and delays in the so-called virtual fence—a network of cameras, sensors and radar that has cost more than $600 million—Mr. Wood is installing [...]

Immigrants heading to Washington to push reforms (AP)

Immigrants heading to Washington to push reforms 
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AP - Tens of thousands of immigrants are making their way across the country to the nation’s capital to rally Sunday on immigration reform.[Read more...]

Lenders Shun Odd Homes

Lenders Shun Odd Homes

HOT SULPHUR SPRINGS, Colo.—Like many Americans, Jon and Laura Hagar are searching for a lender to refinance their home loan. But banks are leery of the Hagars. Their rural Colorado house is made of 17,000 old tires. A niche mortgage mess is brewing in homes made of earth, tires, concrete and trash. Environmentally minded [...]

Nation, world go green for St. Patrick’s Day (AP)

Nation, world go green for St. Patrick’s Day 
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AP - All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish, or at least Irish for the day, as revelers marked St. Patrick’s Day with bagpipes, dancing, emerald lights and green body paint in a flurry of celebration.[Read more...]

Blagojevich Denied Trial Delay

Blagojevich Denied Trial Delay

CHICAGO—U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel denied a request by former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to push back his trial date, saying he has had plenty of time to prepare for his trial. Mr. Blagojevich’s lawyers had asked the judge to delay the trial until Nov. 3, instead of the scheduled date of June 3, [...]

Health Overhaul Splits Party Faithful

Health Overhaul Splits Party Faithful

The pending health-care overhaul remains unpopular with a broad swath of the public, but core Democrats the party needs to show up and vote in November are strong backers, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds. View Full Image AFP/Getty Images President Obama speaks about health care Monday in Strongsville, Ohio. The [...]

Ivy League’s Cornell responds to 3 gorge deaths (AP)

Ivy League’s Cornell responds to 3 gorge deaths 
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AP - Cornell University, an Ivy League school known for its spectacular gorges and haunted by a reputation for suicides, took the extraordinary step of posting lookouts on bridges and going door-to-door to check on students after three undergrads plunged to their deaths in the past month.[Read more...]

Tiger Woods to Return at the Masters

Tiger Woods to Return at the Masters

Tiger Woods said Tuesday he will return to professional golf at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga., in early April, ending a five-month hiatus spurred by revelations of extramarital affairs. View Full Image Associated Press Tiger Woods, after winning the Masters in 2002. “The Masters is where I won my first major and [...]

Mexican tour bus overturns in Texas, killing 2 (AP)

Mexican tour bus overturns in Texas, killing 2 
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AP - A Mexican tour bus carrying about 35 people overturned along a southern Texas highway on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring an unknown number of others, an official said.[Read more...]

Edwards mistress: Still in love, living ‘truth’ (AP)

Edwards mistress: Still in love, living ‘truth’ 
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AP - The mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards says she is helping him live “a life of truth” and the two remain in love even after their affair helped trigger his downfall from the pinnacle of U.S. politics.[Read more...]