The key question in how to end Israel's attacks in Gaza cannot be answered by the Israelis. What must it do to convince the terrorist group, Hamas, which runs Gaza, to stop firing missiles into Israeli neighborhoods? ...more

January 3, 2009

President Bush said Saturday the terrorists behind the deadly attacks in India "will not have the final word" and pledged full U.S. support "in the face of this assault on human dignity." ...more

November 29, 2008

The Border Patrol has finished installing razor-sharp barbed wire atop a 5-mile stretch of fence on the Mexican border, an addition critics call heavy-handed and an eyesore. ...more

November 20, 2008

U.S. officials returned 168 pre-Columbian artifacts to Ecuador this week as part of an ongoing FBI initiative to repatriate stolen cultural treasures to their home countries. ...more

September 26, 2008

No deportations to storm-crippled Haiti are planned, federal immigration officials said Friday, an encouraging sign to advocates who say the Caribbean country needs more time to recover before it can deal with fresh arrivals. ...more

September 20, 2008

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) -- The Danish owned these tropical islands for centuries, but about the only people speaking their language here these days are tourists. ...more

January 8, 2008

Border Patrol agents are firing tear gas and powerful pepper-spray weapons across the border into Mexico to repel what the agency says are an increasing number of attacks by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. ...more

December 18, 2007