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Italy is moving ahead with plans to fingerprint the country's Roma, or gypsy, people. The government says the fingerprinting is necessary to fight crime, identify illegal immigrants and protect Roma children from exploitation. The plan has critics.

A controversial plan to divert Canada's Rupert River will soon provide power to tens of thousands of U.S. customers. It's likely that once the project is finished, everything along the river corridor will change, says a geologist familiar with the river.

The Latino vote is considered to be crucial in this year's presidential election. That's why both major candidates are actively courting Latinos.To that end, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Oba

Senator Barack Obama says the Latino community holds the upcoming presidential election in their hands. He made the remark in San Diego yesterday at the annual convention of the nation's largest Latin

Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Budweiser, has agreed to accept a $52 billion buyout offer from the Belgian brewer InBev in a deal that would create the world's largest beer maker.

Cause and Effect

Jimi Izrael, Ruben Navarrette, Arsalan Iftikhar and Ed Dorn talk weigh in on the latest headlines. This week, the men discuss the Rev. Jesse Jackson's controversial off-mic comments about Sen. Barack Obama, both presidential candidates' aggressive push for the Latino vote and the Obamas' first primetime television interview.

A key NATO air base in southern Afghanistan is expanding its infrastructure to the tune of $780 million, though not everyone is happy about the growth. The Kandahar Air Base serves 13,000 troops from 17 countries.

High expectations can place an undue burden on a film but Guillermo Del Toro and

The Senate has approved and sent to the White House a bitterly contested rewrite of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. The bill overhauls disputed rules on secret government eavesdropping. It also shields phone companies from lawsuits for their role in the administration's warrantless eavesdropping program.