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SEEKING SERENITY IN A PATCH OF LAND

c.2013 New York Times News Service FRESNO, Calif. — Like Scotch broom and dandelions, despair can be invasive. This is why, every Monday, Lee Lee, a Hmong refugee, puts on her sun hat and flip-flops, grabs the hoe handmade by her father and brother in Laos and heads to the ...

SEEKING SERENITY IN A PATCH OF LAND

c.2013 New York Times News Service FRESNO, Calif. — Like Scotch broom and dandelions, despair can be invasive. This is why, every Monday, Lee Lee, a Hmong refugee, puts on her sun hat and flip-flops, grabs the hoe handmade by her father and brother in Laos and heads to the ...

Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos

A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people. The decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up years of allegations ...

Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos

A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people. The decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up years of allegations ...

Key figures in racial profiling lawsuit in Ariz

Key figures in a lawsuit that alleges that an Arizona sheriff's office has racially profiled Latinos in its immigration patrols. A judge ruled Friday that Arpaio's office systematically racially profiles Latinos: ARPAIO: Sheriff Joe Arpaio has aggressively pursued local immigration enforcement. The sheriff has been accused of launching some immigration ...

Cast members from left, director James Gray, actress Marion Cotillard and actor Jeremy Renner arrive for the screening of The Immigrant at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool)

Steely Cotillard shines in 'The Immigrant'

Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant." The gritty drama, which premieres Friday at the Cannes Film Festival and is competing for the Palme d'Or, ...

13 metro Atlanta residents to become US citizens

Federal immigration officials say metro Atlanta residents from seven countries are set to become American citizens. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokeswoman Ana Santiago says metro Atlanta residents from Belize, Colombia, Ghana, Honduras, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, the Philippines and St. Lucia will be sworn as American citizens Saturday. Santiago says the ...

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio listens to a reporter's question during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

House immigration group resolves dispute

House members writing a bipartisan immigration bill said Thursday they had patched over a dispute that threatened their efforts, even as they and the rest of Congress prepared to return home for a weeklong recess where many could confront voters' questions on the issue. The eight lawmakers in the House ...

FILE - In this May 21, 2013 file photo, a burnt out car,  in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a third executive night. Immigrant youth in sleepy suburban communities run amok, hurling rocks at police and torching cars, restaurants and culture centers. It isn't France or Britain, but Sweden _ a Scandinavian bastion of generous social welfare and egalitarian political culture. Though this week's rioting outside Stockholm was triggered by perceived police brutality, observers say that there has been a surge of angst in society as inequality rises on a backdrop of burgeoning immigrant numbers.  (AP Photo/Scanipx Sweden, Fredrik Sandberg, File)  SWEDEN OUT

Sweden's riots raise questions about inequality

Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week. Few dispute that the violence was probably ...

HOLD FOR RELEASE 12:01 A.M. 05/23/13: Graphic shows the teen birth rate for 15- to -19 year olds for 2011 by state

Nearly all US states see hefty drop in teen births

The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report. All states but West Virginia and North Dakota showed significant drops over five years. But the Mountain States of Arizona, ...

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