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Obama to pitch immigration overhaul in Mexico

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 2nd

By JIM KUHNHENNAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has his domestic ambition at the top of his travel agenda as he travels to Mexico on Thursday. To sell his immigration overhaul back home, he needs a growing economy in Mexico and a Mexican president willing to help him secure

Security casts shadow over Obama's Mexico trip

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 1st

By JULIE PACEAP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is seeking to refocus economic relations between the U.S. and Mexico, even as fresh questions about security cooperation threaten to cast a shadow over the president's visit to the southern neighbor. Obama also

Security casts shadow over Obama's Mexico trip

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 1st

Italian policemen shot near new gov't swearing-in

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 28th

By FRANCES D'EMILIOAssociated Press ROME (AP) - In the very moments Italy's new coalition government was being sworn in, ending months of political paralysis in a country hoping to revive a bleak economy, a middle-aged unemployed bricklayer opened fire Sunday in the square outside the

Italian policemen shot near new gov't swearing-in

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 28th

Australian charged with hacking government site

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 24th

By KRISTEN GELINEAUAssociated Press SYDNEY (AP) - Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with international hacking collective Lulz Security on a charge of attacking and defacing a government website, officials said Wednesday. The 24-year-old senior IT worker, whose name was

Holder: Marijuana's effect on children a factor

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 18th

By FREDERIC J. FROMMERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - How it affects children will be one factor the Justice Department weighs as it determines how to respond to the legalization of marijuana in Washington state and Colorado, Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Thursday. "When it comes to

Feds in NY: Russian mob ran celebrity poker games

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 16th

By TOM HAYSAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly three dozen people were charged on Tuesday in what investigators said was a Russian organized crime operation that included illegal, high-stakes poker games for the rich and famous and threats of violence to make sure customers paid their debts.

Trial to start in Zetas cartel racehorse case

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 13th

By JUAN A. LOZANOAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) - One of Mexico's most powerful and violent drug cartels intended a racehorse-buying operation to be a clandestine means of laundering its illegal proceeds in the United States, prosecutors say. But with the millions of dollars spent - sometimes in

UN adopts treaty to regulate global arms trade

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 2nd

By EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first international treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade Tuesday, after a more than decade-long campaign to keep weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists,