Hoping your Christmas is spent with loved ones, great food, appropriate weather and God's blessing for Christians, Jews and Buddhists who are currently and have been in recent times persecuted for their religious belief.
Border Patrol agents face massive increase in assaults
he U.S. Border Patrol says its agents have been assaulted 250 times along the Mexican border since Oct. 1, a number that represents a 38 percent increase from the same period last year.
Officials say the rising violence indicates smugglers are frustrated and more desperate as it has become more difficult to cross the border illegally. Agents have been attacked with rocks, vehicles and Molotov cocktails.
Imam freed - deportation possible
Imam Gunduz, a clergy member at the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, was detained Dec. 4 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Pittsburgh after being accused of violating his non-immigrant status in 1999, Mr. Whitehill said.
A Near Northwest Side man was arrested Wednesday for carrying a replica of a bomb into a building next to Tribune Tower, Chicago police said.
The man, who identified himself as Holace Aurelo Sender, walked into the Equitable Building, 401 N. Michigan Ave., about 2:30 p.m. with a package containing a device that looked like a bomb, Officer John Henry said.
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