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The debate over how to deal with the approximately 11 million individuals living in the United States without authorization - including the argument over whether to call them “illegal” or “undocumented” - is perhaps the most politically tricky aspect of the sprawling immigration policy overhaul effort.So who are the 11 million? And how do we know how many there are?It’s difficult to count people w...
A Ramona, Calif., high school student who turned 16 on Wednesday died after being hit in the chest with a softball during a physical education class, officials confirmed.The teen -- identified as Taylor Dorman by friends, fellow students and Ramona High School principal Tony Newman -- collapsed on a school field after being struck by a ball just before 11:30 a.m. local time (2:30 p.m. ET).Newman c...
A state of emergency was declared in Missouri on Wednesday night after tornadoes and strong thunderstorms destroyed homes and businesses and downed power lines. The same storm system also leveled homes and caused injuries in Arkansas.The storms that struck suburbs west and southwest of St. Louis included tornadoes, according to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon."This was a strong system of storms that cause...
PORTLAND, Oregon - An Oregon man was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of harassing family members of some of the 12 people slain by a gunman who opened fire on moviegoers inside a Colorado theater last summer, police said.Kevin Michael Purfield, 45, of Oregon, is accused of contacting relatives of the Aurora, Colorado, victims through telephone calls, email and social media networks, police in P...
A decision on whether a journalist will be sent to jail for not revealing her sources has been delayed until August, a Colorado judge ruled Wednesday.Lawyers for theater massacre suspect James Holmes have been contending that Fox News reporter Jana Winter needs to reveal the sources of a story she broke last July revealing Holmes had sent a notebook to his psychiatrist outlining his plot.Holmes is...
The National Rifle Association said Wednesday the group is unequivocally opposed to the newly-struck compromise plan to expand background checks — and threatened lawmakers it may seek to penalize lawmakers who vote for what they deem “anti-gun” measures by giving them poor grades in their rating system.The warning to members of Congress came just hours after a compromise on expanding background ch...
First Lady Michelle Obama got emotional today in Chicago during a speech about gun violence. In front of a group of Chicago business and civic leaders the first lady’s voice cracked as she talked about meeting with the classmates of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, a Chicago teenager who was shot and killed earlier this year.“It is hard to know what to say to a roomful of teenagers that are about to ...
A vast storm system Wednesday night may bring snow from eastern South Dakota into northeast Nebraska, northwest Iowa, and central and southern Minnesota, to include the Twin Cities, The Weather Channel reported. Four to eight inches of snow could fall Wednesday night alone in the Sioux Falls to Minneapolis corridor.Light snow could reach as far east as northern Wisconsin, The Weather Channel re...
A Chicago shop owner who'd been robbed in the past grabbed a baseball bat and fought back when a pair of men came in intent on robbing the place.Store surveillance cameras captured the bold brawl at Quizhpe's Gifts & Sports, in the Logan Square neighborhood, at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.The robbers, one of them with a gun, apparently had no idea what they were in for when they walked into t...
