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Health care thorny issue in immigration debate

By ERICA WERNERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Health care coverage for newly legalized immigrants is emerging as a thorny issue in Congress' drive to remake the nation's immigration system, posing hard-to-solve problems for Senate negotiators and threatening a bill-writing effort in the

Nicaragua fast-tracks huge project

By LUIS GALEANOAssociated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Nicaragua is trying to revive a centuries-old dream of building an inter-ocean canal, a project experts say could take 11 years to build, cost $40 billion and require digging about 130 miles (200 kilometers) of waterway. The government is

2 Koreas to talk in border village after tensions

By SAM KIMAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North and South Korea will meet in a village straddling their heavily armed border Sunday for the first government-level talks on the peninsula in more than two years as they try to lower tension and restore stalled projects that once symbolized

Texas site begins taking federal nuclear waste

By BETSY BLANEYAssociated Press ANDREWS, Texas (AP) - Republican mega-donor Harold Simmons' remote hazardous waste dump in West Texas began accepting low-level radioactive material Thursday from a federal lab in New Mexico - the latest step in Simmons' vision of a site that accepts all