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• Census: Whites no longer a majority in US by 2043

  December 12, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043, according to new census projections. That’s part of a historic shift that already is … 4

• APNewsBreak: Sotomayor book offers personal look

  December 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says in her upcoming memoir that her lifelong battle against diabetes and the fear that she might die early played a big …

• Illegal immigration drops after decade-long rise

  December 6, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — New census data released Thursday affirm a clear and sustained drop in illegal immigration, ending more than a decade of increases. The number of illegal immigrants in …

• Illegal immigration drops after decade-long rise

  December 5, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — New census data released Thursday affirm a clear and sustained drop in illegal immigration, ending more than a decade of increases. The number of illegal immigrants in …

• Program trains farmworkers to be organic farmers

  December 2, 2012 in Nation/World SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — Bending over beds of shriveled strawberry plants, former farmworker Domitila Martinez pulls pieces of black plastic row covers in preparation for next season’s planting. Except this …

• Republicans propose plan for undocumented young

  November 27, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Senate Republicans on Tuesday unveiled their version of the Dream Act, stalled legislation that would provide a path to legal status for hundreds of thousands of …

• House to consider limited GOP immigration bill

  November 23, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans still smarting from their poor showing among Hispanics in the presidential election are planning a vote next week on immigration legislation that would both expand …

• US court strikes down Mich. affirmative action ban

  November 15, 2012 in Nation/World DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions was declared unconstitutional Thursday by a deeply divided federal appeals court, six years after state voters said race could …

• Census: New gauge shows high of 49.7M poor in US

  November 14, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America’s poor edged up last year to a high of 49.7 million, based on a new census measure that takes into account medical costs …

• Census: New gauge shows 49.7 million poor in US

  November 14, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America’s poor edged up last year to a high of 49.7 million, based on a new census measure that takes into account medical costs …

• Senators propose comprehensive immigration changes

  November 11, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senators on opposite sides of the aisle are proposing comprehensive changes to the immigration laws that would include a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 …

• Senators discuss comprehensive immigration changes

  November 11, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senators on opposite sides of the aisle are proposing comprehensive changes to the immigration laws that would include a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 …

• High court to take fresh look at voting rights law

  November 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider eliminating the government’s most potent weapon against racial discrimination at polling places since the 1960s. The court acted three days after a …

• GOP showing in Calif. worries party strategists

  November 10, 2012 in Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — If the future happens first in California, the Republican Party has a problem. The nation’s most populous state — home to 1 in 8 Americans — … 3

• High court to take new look at voting rights law

  November 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider eliminating the government’s most potent weapon against racial discrimination at polling places since the 1960s. The court acted three days after a …

• High court to take new look at voting rights law

  November 9, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will consider eliminating the government’s most potent weapon against racial discrimination at polling places since the 1960s. The court acted three …

• Coming to Texas ballots: another Bush in 2014?

  November 9, 2012 in Nation/World AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — George P. Bush, a rising star among Hispanic conservatives and the grandson of one president and nephew of another, has taken the first step toward seeking …

• Texas lawyer pleads not guilty to aiding cartel

  November 9, 2012 in Nation/World EL PASO, Texas (AP) — In public, Marco Antonio Delgado was a philanthropist, a prominent El Paso businessman and a trustee at Carnegie Mellon University. But secretly, investigators say, he …

• AP poll: Majority harbor prejudice against blacks

  October 27, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority … 1

• School finance case to focus on demographics shift

  October 23, 2012 in Nation/World AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ dramatically shifting demographics will be the focus Tuesday as attorneys representing about 600 school districts call their first witness in a trial in which the …

• Earlier puberty seen in boys, just like in girls

  October 20, 2012 in Health, Nation/World CHICAGO (AP) — When it comes to the birds and the bees, some parents may want to have that talk with their boys a little sooner than they expected. Researchers …

• Court will hear Ariz. case on voter registration

  October 15, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up an appeal from Arizona over its requirement that people prove they are American citizens before registering to vote. …

• Shuttle crossing provides a unique teaching moment

  October 11, 2012 in Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the space shuttle Endeavour weaves through working-class communities on its way to its retirement home, Hildreth “Hal” Walker Jr. wants the children he tutors to …

• Obama to designate Chavez home as nat’l monument

  October 6, 2012 in Nation/World KEENE, Calif. (AP) — Maria Ybarra’s trailer is one of two left on the property that for over two decades was home to Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez and farmworkers …

• Study: Race-neutral admissions can work

  October 3, 2012 in Nation/World As the Supreme Court revisits the use of race in college admissions next week, critics of affirmative action are hopeful the justices will roll back the practice. A new report …

• Baby bust continues: US births down for 4th year

  October 2, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. births fell for the fourth year in a row, the government reported Wednesday, with experts calling it more proof that the weak economy has continued …

• Churches using ‘souls to polls’ to rally vote

  October 2, 2012 in Nation/World MIAMI (AP) — It’s not just the collection plate that’s getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the …

• Wis. woman convicted in fetal-abduction case

  September 20, 2012 MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee woman who confessed to trying to steal a baby by attacking a pregnant woman and slicing out her full-term fetus was convicted Thursday of killing …

• Hispanics the focus as Romney pushes ahead

  September 20, 2012 MIAMI (AP) — Hispanics are the focus as the race for the White House moves to Florida, a presidential battleground where a charged immigration debate is under way as President …

• High court won’t stop Texas voting map

  September 19, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing Texas to use congressional districts that were drawn by a lower federal court for the November election. 3

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