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A top Department of Homeland Security official reportedly said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities. John Morton, assistant secretary of homeland security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made the comment during a meeting on Wednesday with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, the newspaper reports. "I don't think the Arizona law, or laws like it, are the solution," Morton told the newspaper.

Greek fire officials say three people have died in a blaze that broke out at an Athens bank during rioting over government austerity measures. An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets Wednesday during a nationwide wave of strikes against spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankrupty. Protesters were hurling Molotov cocktails at police and buildings. At least two buildings were on fire, while hundreds of people were involved in the clashes...

"Science searches for the best explanations of natural phenomena. Or so we are told. But what happens if a scientist publishes a peer-reviewed paper in a journal suggesting that the best explanation for the sudden appearance of a huge variety of life forms at the very beginning of animal life is intelligent design? In early 2005 Richard Sternberg, editor of a science journal and holder of two PhDs in biology, was forced to flee for justice to the U.S. government's Office of Special Counsel (OSC) because he had permitted a scientist to publish in his journal a paper that suggested...

First, before going any farther, I need to make known my position: 1.) I am persuaded that the universe was created by some higher power. 2.) I am a Christian in practice. 3.) My intention in this post is to discuss the possibility of god(s) existing. 4.) If you have any other question as to what my motive is, please feel free to post. Let us begin the actual discussion with an argument as to whether god(s) exist. Here is the given: 1.) The Universe either A.)came into being at some point in time, B.)has always existed just as it...

As in all vanities of this style, I would suggest any people who get overly angry and upset over religious vs. secular debate immediately stop reading. First, before going any farther, I need to make known my position: 1.) I am persuaded that the universe was created by some higher power. 2.) I am a Christian in practice. 3.) My intention in this vanity, is to discuss the possibility of god(s) existing. 4.) If you have any other question as to what my motive is, please feel free to post, or send me a private message. Let us begin the...

(CNSNews.com) - Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders.