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Drug cartel boss pleads guilty to murder in U.S. agent's death

He joins three other defendants who had pleaded guilty to various charges related to the 2011 shooting in Mexico, which left a second agent injured. WASHINGTON — A Mexican drug cartel commander pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and attempted murder in a 2011 ambush south of the border that left one American agent dead and a second injured, and which sharply strained U.S.-Mexico relations.        

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Found 3 hours ago on channel Los Angeles Times

Drug cartel boss pleads guilty to murder in U.S. agent's death

He joins three other defendants who had pleaded guilty to various charges related to the 2011 shooting in Mexico, which left a second agent injured. WASHINGTON — A Mexican drug cartel commander pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and attempted murder in a 2011 ambush south of the border that left one American agent dead and a second injured, and which sharply strained U.S.-Mexico relations.        

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Found 3 hours ago on channel Los Angeles Times

Taliban launches major attack in Kabul

Gunmen reportedly targeted American intelligence personnel who were training Afghan officers.

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Found 8 hours ago on channel Al Jazeera

Congress Crowdsourcing New High-Skilled Immigration Bill, Contribute Here

The U.S. House of Representatives just released its own version of a high-skilled immigration reform bill and is actively seeking input through the collective IQ of the Internet. House Oversight Chairman and one of our Most Innovative People in Democracy, Darrell Issa, has placed the Supplying Knowledge-Based Immigrants And Lifting Levels of STEM (SKILLS) Visas Act on his very own public markup utility, Project Madison (we partnered with Issa’s nonprofit, the Open Government Foundation and have integrated it into our CrunchGov site). Details Of The New Bill A few important details about the bill that took an admirable bit of linguistic gymnastics to come up with a title to fit that obviously pre-determined acronym. (U.S. government 101: in order to become law, both the House and the Senate will have to combine their bills. The details below are the important differences between the House and the Senate). 1). SKILLS Visa is a net neutral green card allotment system; the 120,000 high-skilled ...

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Found 1 day ago on channel TechCrunch

A Hypocritical Silence On Gay Immigrants' Rights

The biggest names in technology have normally been unflinching champions for the rights of same-sex couples. Yet, they were conspicuously silent this week as the Senate rejected the right for American same-sex couples to petition for visas for their foreign-born partners.

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Found 1 day ago on channel TechCrunch