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  • Requiring Immigrants to Learn English Sought in Bill

    Senate Republicans are seeking further changes to a broad immigration bill that would require immigrants to learn English and limit their access to government benefits.

  • Republicans Seek More Border Control in Immigration Bill

    Top Senate Republicans are demanding more stringent border-security requirements in legislation that would make the most significant changes to U.S. immigration law in a generation.

  • Letters to Air Force Base, Obama Seized in Ricin Probe

    FBI agents investigating a Spokane, Washington, man charged with sending a letter containing the poison ricin to a federal judge said “similar letters” to President Barack Obama, the Central Intelligence Agency, a U.S. Air Force Base and the U.S. Post Office were seized or detected.

  • Letters to New York Mayor Test Positive for Ricin

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York City Police Department are investigating anonymous letters threatening Mayor Michael Bloomberg that tested positive for the deadly chemical ricin.

  • Initial Tests Show Ricin Poison in Letter to U.S. Senator

    Postal workers intercepted a letter addressed to U.S. Senator Roger Wicker that preliminary tests showed contained poisonous ricin, with lawmakers learning of the incident while they were being briefed yesterday on the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon.

  • Why Obama’s Scandals Won’t Lead to Reform

    Put aside the politics, and the question of who-knew-what-when. There are two policy problems highlighted by the controversies at the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice. The first is the growth of 501(c)(4) groups into vehicles for anonymous and unlimited political spending. The second is the Barack Obama administration’s overzealous prosecution of leaks.

  • Spokane Ricin Suspect Charged With Threatening U.S. Judge

    A 37-year-old man was charged with threatening a federal judge in Spokane, Washington, in a letter sent with the deadly chemical ricin, the FBI said.

  • Elvis Impersonator Accused of Ricin Letters Sowing Fear

    Paul Kevin Curtis played the young Elvis at an annual Tupelo festival honoring the Mississippi city’s most famous son and strummed his guitar at night outside his home in a subsidized housing project an hour to the north.

  • Kroll Says S&P, Moody’s Putting Profits Ahead of Accuracy

    Jules Kroll, a former private investigator who started a bond-rating company after the financial crisis, said the largest credit-rating firms are again putting profits ahead of accuracy amid record demand for corporate debt.

  • Federal Agents Arrest Mississippi Man Over Ricin Letters

    Federal authorities detained a Mississippi man suspected of mailing letters to President Barack Obama and a U.S. senator that initially tested positive for the poison ricin and heightened tensions after the Boston bombings.

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