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Every Wednesday night, the streets in Tijuana, Mexico, are filled with hundreds of bicyclists who ride in spite of the city's notorious violence. They want to show that the streets can be safe and that Tijuana is a family-friendly place.

The ranks at Ivy Tech Community College in Kokomo, Ind., are swelling with laid-off factory workers. One in five people in Kokomo is jobless. Many are back in school with the help of a program that pays to retrain workers hurt by foreign trade.

A new U.S. government report says 87 percent of the guns seized by authorities in Mexico's drug war are traced back to the United States. Mexican drug cartels find it much easier to obtain firearms north of the border. There are tens of thousands of licensed gun shops in the U.S. There is just one in Mexico, and it's run by the army.

One dispute among Republicans in the debate about illegal immigration is whether candidates support so-called sanctuary policies that put limits on checking immigrants' legal status. There is growing support for cities to do more on immigration.

The 6-year-old Colorado boy was in a cardboard box in the garage attic. His brother had said he had crawled into a box or basket attached to the balloon, which floated off. The flight lasted more than two hours, spanned 50 miles, set off a frantic search and kept television and Internet audiences captivated.

Harry Reid's African-American supporters meet Thursday, in the wake of a brouhaha over racial comments he made about President Obama back in 2008. But his troubles may run deeper: Polls show the Democratic Senate majority leader trailing three would-be GOP opponents.

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After Pearl Harbor, about 120,000 Japanese Americans were uprooted and forced to live for years in federal camps. Internment changed the traditional Japanese diet and erased the family table.

The Santa Ana winds have died down in Southern California, but wildfires still rage out of control. FEMA Director David Paulison talks about the situation on his way to meet President Bush at the airport in San Diego.

The Federal Reserve says that the U.S. economy is growing at a moderate pace, and that's putting pressure on the labor market. The Fed's report also said the housing market remains weak.