EXODUS OF CUBANS FUELS CLASH OF NEW AND OLD
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO In this Sept. 19, 2013 photo, Irka Ducasse Blanes, a recent Cuban immigrant, smiles during an interview at a tax preparation office where she works in Miami.…
Social issues
SUPREME COURT TERM BEGINS WITH CONTENTIOUS TOPICS
By MARK SHERMAN FILE – In this June 27, 2012, file photo law enforcement officers set up a perimeter controls in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on the eve…
DESPITE GUN DEBATE, ATF STILL BOXED IN BY POLITICS
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL FILE – In this June 11, 2013, file photo B. Todd Jones of Minnesota, President Barack Obama’s nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
JEERS, INVESTIGATIONS BELEAGUER CLEVELAND POLICE
By THOMAS J. SHEERAN In this Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 photo shows Cleveland residents holding up signs in protest of the Cleveland Police Department in Cleveland. Months of disciplinary hearings…
EGYPT’S BROTHERHOOD VILIFIES ARMY AHEAD OF RALLIES
By SARAH EL DEEB In this image released by the Delegation of European Union in Egypt, Egyptian Minister of Defense, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, meets with High Representative of the European…
MIGRANT SHIP CAPSIZES OFF ITALY, KILLING 94
By NICOLE WINFIELD Bodies of drowned migrants are lined up in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Tens of people died when a ship carrying African migrants toward…
NSA CHIEF ADMITS TESTING US CELLPHONE TRACKING
By KIMBERLY DOZIER and STEPHEN BRAUN National Intelligence Director James Clapper listens at left, as National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct.…
FRENCH COURT: ID CHECKS ON MINORITIES DEEMED LEGAL
By ELAINE GANLEY CORRECTING LEFT AND RIGHT – Lawyers acting for the plaintiff, Slim ben Achour, left, and Felix de Belloy talk during a press conferene in Paris, Wednesday, Oct.…