DALLAS—The U.S. Census Bureau is scouring Texas for an oddly elusive worker: the Spanish-speaking American who qualifies for the job. Getty Images U.S. Census recruiting assistant Terrie Valdez-Rubio at a job fair last month in Ontario, Calif. Texas is home to more Hispanics than any other state except California, and the pool of [...]
AP - Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend’s father in a second-floor apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia.[Read more...]
DALLAS—The U.S. Census Bureau is scouring Texas for an oddly elusive worker: the Spanish-speaking American who qualifies for the job. Getty Images U.S. Census recruiting assistant Terrie Valdez-Rubio at a job fair last month in Ontario, Calif. Texas is home to more Hispanics than any other state except California, and the pool of [...]
AP - The self-described “Jihad Jane” who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden is a rare case of an American woman aiding in foreign terrorism and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say.[Read more...]
SAN DIEGO—It was a sunny California afternoon, and an Afghan war scene raged on the expansive grounds here of a little-known company called Strategic Operations Inc. View Full Image Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street Journal Armed Afghan role player Basim Al-Shamary prepares for a military exercise. A rocket-propelled grenade whistled out of [...]
AP - A suburban woman “desperate to do something” to help suffering Muslims has been accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist, prosecutors said Tuesday.[Read more...]
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and [...]
AP - The father of a 14-year-old girl whose bones were found more than a year after she vanished walking to school urged supporters to behave like his late daughter’s favorite animal, the wolf, to hunt down child predators.[Read more...]
Nearly two weeks after the largest killer whale in captivity killed one of its trainers, SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment is still wrestling with the dilemma of what to do with its most prized asset. The U.S. marine-park operator said it is continuing to review safety procedures for all of its orcas and hasn’t decided [...]
AP - A construction crane owner got a bargain-basement repair job on a giant rig, which fell apart and killed two workers when the fix failed, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against the owner and a former mechanic.[Read more...]
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