Jan 5, 2009
Tim Johnson (D) : The Incumbent South Dakota senator has served in the Senate since 1997. Johnson suffered a brain hemmorhage in 2007, but returned to the Senate two years later. Joel Dykstra (R): Dykstra, a conservative state representative ...
Jan 5, 2009
DALLAS — Jose Perez often butted heads with his grandfather, who emigrated from Mexico years ago and feared his American-born grandson didn't appreciate the sacrifices his family made. Then the teenager started playing the music of the elder's ...
Jan 4, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan has provoked comparisons with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Like Roosevelt, Obama is promising to pull the country out of a depression with massive job creation through infrastructure ...
Jan 4, 2009
Associated Press Writer= BAGHDAD (AP) â Acting on widespread complaints from its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marine Corps has ordered major modifications to its body armor to improve comfort, mobility and safety, The Associated Press has ...
Jan 3, 2009
The Chinese American Museum occupies what may seem an unlikely spot -- a corner of El Pueblo de Los Angeles, the historical park whose cultural attractions and touristy Olvera Street are reminders of the city's Mexican American heritage. "People are ...
Jan 3, 2009
EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- With the death toll in the Mexican city of Juarez mounting, the increasingly bloody struggle for control of the city across the Rio Grande from El Paso can now count one more victim: charity from its American neighbor. At least ...
Jan 2, 2009
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Jan 2, 2009
Dammam - A catering service run by Saudi women, the first in the Eastern Province, has opened in Dammam. The food center named 'Nouryat Center' located in Shafa Mall at Abdullah Fuad Street is a first ever endeavor by Saudi women in the field of ...
Jan 1, 2009
The increasingly bloody struggle for control of Ciudad Juarez across the Rio Grande from El Paso can now count another victim, charity from its American neighbor. At least two church groups have chosen not to send members over the border to aid the ...
Jan 1, 2009
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico 's IPC stock index slipped 0.18 percent to 22,380 Wednesday as the market closed a dismal year amid the global financial crisis. Meanwhile the country's peso weakened to nearly 13.9 to the U.S. dollar, its lowest level since ...