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While Republican states like Arizona and Alabama have passed laws to keep immigrants from finding work, Kansas is exploring a plan that would allow undocumented immigrants to work in industries that face labor shortages.

Canon's 76-year-old chairman and CEO will take on the additional role of president after the $60 billion Japanese camera and printer maker forecast weak earnings growth and said its current president was stepping down.

A federal appeals court's ruling against a proposed constitutional amendment to ban Oklahoma courts from using Islamic Sharia law represents more than a setback to the measure's proponents. Experts say that the decision also reveals how such laws fall somewhere between impractical and unconstitutional.

Congressional Republicans, who are urging President Barack Obama to give a permit to the Keystone XL oil pipeline project, are working on a plan to take the reins of approval from the president should the White House say no.

Amy Chua appeared on the Today show Tuesday to talk about her success through strict parenting one year after she was dubbed one of the most controversial figures of 2011 following the release of her book about being a Tiger mom, or raising her daughters the Chinese way.

Former teacher Alex Grodd is betting on social media to solve a big problem in education: how to tap other teachers' hands-on experience for what works in the classroom.

While it may appear that the government's document-leaking case against U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning is strong, the defense could have some surprising leverage with prosecutors and force plea negotiations.

Children the world over are leaving carrots by the chimney for Santa's reindeer this Christmas, but the real reindeer population, and the Innu people who rely on them, need all the help they can get.

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled against the federal government's plan to create a single, national securities regulator, forcing Ottawa to rethink its campaign to replace the current patchwork of provincial watchdogs and regulations.

Canada's top court derailed government plans to consolidate a patchwork system of provincial securities regulators on Thursday, ruling that proposed federal legislation violated provincial rights and forcing the government back to the drawing board.

Fred Shapiro, a Yale Law School librarian and well-known authority on quotations, just released his sixth-annual list of the most memorable quotations of the year. The top three quotes all deal with statements made by people protesting the income disparity in the U.S. The Occupy Wall Street protesters’ slogan --“We are the 99 percent” – was the list's top quote.

A House bill to extend a payroll tax cut would also authorize states to require drug testing for recipients of unemployment benefits, prompting questions about the measure's effectiveness and legality.

Undercover police officers infiltrated Occupy LA's tent city last month to spy on people they suspected of stockpiling human waste and crude weapons for resisting an eventual eviction, police and city government sources said.

Morgan, best known for playing Colonel Sherman T. Potter on long-running TV classic M*A*S*H, died Wednesday at age 96, possibly from pneumonia. Look back on the prolific character actor's five-decade career, and watch Morgan's interview with the Television Academy Foundation in 2004 and classic M*A*S*H moments with his Col. Potter.

Insider trading by members of Congress is a clear problem, but fixing it may prove difficult.

The Carrier IQ secret spyware app is embedded in millions of Android, Nokia and RIM phones around the globe and has been logging the keystrokes of its users.

The Department of Homeland Security announced last week a sweeping review of deportation cases before immigration courts and the establishment of a nationwide retraining program for enforcement agents and prosecuting attorneys. Both are intended to focus deportations on immigrants who have committed serious crimes or who pose a threat to public safety, rather than a broad category of noncriminal immigrants.

Ronan Farrow, the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow who works as a State Department special adviser on global youth issues, has been named a Rhodes Scholar.

Theodore J. Forstmann, better known as Ted Forstmann, the co-founder of private equity firm Forstmann Little & Company and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the International Management Group (IMG) died on Sunday, of brain cancer. The 71-year-old private equity investor and philanthropist had been battling the illness for six months.

Believed to be Obama’s first ever national appearance, a 1991 commercial for TBS’ “Black History Minute, featuring the then-29-year-old, deep-voiced Harvard Law Review graduating editor in chief (before he became commander in chief), has gone viral since its discovery.

Three weeks after MF Global's collapse, furious former customers are still fighting for access to billions of dollars as they question why as much as two-thirds of their money is still frozen.