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Despite denials from state transportation officials that Nevada does not allow illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses, one immigration-reform group is sticking by its earlier assertion illegals can and have become licensed there using legal loopholes. Last week, WorldNetDaily reported Nevada was among 15 states named by the Federation for American Immigration Reform as allowing illegals to get driver's licenses. Shortly after the story broke, officials from the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles contacted WorldNetDaily and insisted the information was incorrect. "Nevada has not, and will not, give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants," said one state DMV official. Also, according...

Illegal aliens who soon will be able to obtain legal driver's licenses in California may also be able to vote in federal elections under terms of a new law set to take effect in January, analysts say. Under the requirements of the "Help America Vote Act," passed in the wake of the 2000 presidential election recount debacle, states are now required to implement new standardized voting regulations, which include verifying voter identity, according to an analysis of the law by Public Citizen, a national non-partisan consumer-advocacy group. One way the new law allows voters to be identified is via a...

President Clinton had more than a dozen opportunities during his two terms to either capture or kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden but either refused or was too consumed by scandal to act, a new book claims. Former Wall Street Journal editorial writer and author Richard Miniter also says in his book, "Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror," that the former commander in chief was most responsible for the rise of the world's foremost terrorist mastermind. Besides being "distracted" by his sexual scandals, Miniter said Clinton was hampered by "ideology," in that he didn't believe assassinating...

Four illegal aliens from Mexico who claimed they were robbed at gunpoint by American citizens patrolling a private ranch in Texas have dropped their lawsuit against the owner of the property. Marvin Rader, an attorney for Jim Hogg County rancher Joe Sutton, told WorldNetDaily the four had dropped the suit "without prejudice," meaning they could reinstate it at a later date. He said Southern Poverty Law Center lawyers who are handling the Mexicans' case did not give a reason for dropping the suit. View of the Sutton property near where six illegal aliens were intercepted in March. [Jon Dougherty/WND Photo]...