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APNewsBreak: Chinese-American released from China

Just ahead of a meeting between U.S. and Chinese presidents, a Chinese-American scientist was allowed to leave China after being kept there for five years over a business dispute. It all happened so fast, Hu Zhicheng's wife couldn't get to the airport in time to meet him when he finally ...

  • Updated: 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 5, 2013
FILE – In this May 9, 2013, file photo Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, confers with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., as the Senate Judiciary Committee meets on immigration reform on Capitol Hill in Washington. On a Sunday morning talk show June 2, 2013, Schumer predicted that comprehensive immigration reform would overwhelmingly pass the Senate by July 4. He said he anticipates as many as 70 of the 100 senators will vote for the measure heading to the full Senate on June 10. "We are moving forward because we believe in a bipartisan way this is so vital for America, and we'll have a good bill," Schumer said, pledging to allow colleagues to amend the legislation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer: Immigration bill to pass Senate by July 4

A lawmaker who helped negotiate a bipartisan bill to overhaul immigration predicted on Sunday that comprehensive legislation would overwhelmingly pass the Senate by July 4 while House Republicans cautioned that they would write their own version, one piece at a time. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he anticipates as many ...

  • Updated: 10:58 a.m. Sunday, June 2, 2013

IRS aside, political passions take a summer break

Four years after the summer of rage that fueled the tea party movement, the political circuit is much quieter — even in Republican bastions like this. It's not clear whether conservatives who rallied against President Barack Obama's health care overhaul during raucous town hall-style meetings are tired, wary, complacent or ...

  • Updated: 8:35 a.m. Friday, May 31, 2013
President Barack Obama gestures to lipstick marks on his collar in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. The aunt of American Idol runner-up Jessica Sanchez kissed the president's collar and left the lipstick marks just before he gave his remarks at an Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month event.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama lauds contributions of Asian-Americans

President Barack Obama says the contributions Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders have made to the U.S. underscore the need to overhaul the nation's immigration system. Obama spoke at a White House event marking Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. He lauded Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders for helping build and defend the United ...

  • Updated: 3:39 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, 2013
In this May 15, 2013 photo, Rosemarie Chavez of Kilpatrick, Ala., stands in front of her garage where items donated for tornado relief are stored. Alabama natives rarely venture down the pothole-covered dirt roads in the area, where immigrants far outnumber the white Caucasians who dominate the rest of northeast Alabama, and Spanish-speaking residents seldom veer off the route that takes them to their jobs at nearby poultry plants. That began changing after a tornado with winds up to 125 mph ripped apart dozens of homes in March. Within hours, church members and other volunteers from outside the community showed up to help pick up the pieces, and wary immigrants found out not everyone resented them being around. People with deep family roots in Alabama discovered the Hispanics down the road were a lot like them: family folks just trying to scrape by. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

Twister heals Ala. town fractured over immigration

For years before a tornado hit, few besides the immigrants who work at nearby poultry plants ventured down the pothole-rutted dirt roads of "Little Mexico." The community, whose official name is Kilpatrick, comprises a large population of Latin American residents who previously mingled very little with the white, English-speaking natives. ...

  • Updated: 10:28 a.m. Monday, May 27, 2013
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