The new effort, the first since the Vietnam War, will target immigrants on temporary visas, giving them a chance to become citizens in as little as six months.
AP - Savoring his first big victory in Congress, President Barack Obama on Saturday celebrated the newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus bill as a "major milestone on our road to recovery."
AP - Raising fresh questions about his appointment to Congress, Sen. Roland Burris admitted in a document released Saturday that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's brother asked him for campaign fundraising help before the governor named Burris as Illinois' junior senator.
AP - An investigator says the plane that crashed on a house in New York state landed flat on it and was pointed away from the airport where it was supposed to land.
They were athletes and academics, businessmen and artists, beloved fathers and aunts of diverse backgrounds who suffered the same fate when Continental Airlines Flight 3407 operated by Colgan Air crashed into a home near Buffalo, New York on Thursday. All 49 people aboard the plane died, along with one person on the ground.
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