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As drug cartels continue to terrorize Mexico, Texas officials are planning for the worst-case scenario: how to respond if the violence spills over the border, and what to do if thousands of Mexicans seek refuge in the United States. Katherine Cesinger, a spokeswoman for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, said a …

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This week, I’ve come to realize that some companies are in trouble because they forgot a simple principle that made many enterprises successful: That the customer is always right. I’ve been dealing with customer service people who apparently thought the customer was always wrong. I pray you don’t have to …

First off, our condolences to the Travolta family. Sixteen-year-old Jett Travolta died in the Bahamas on Friday and an autopsy was completed on Monday. Also this evening, Newt Gingrich will analyze the fighting in Gaza, a big challenge for Barack Obama, who is getting hammered by his own party these …

A North Carolina judge presiding over a bitter divorce case has ruled that three home-schooled children must start attending public school — a decision their mother angrily says was based on her religious beliefs. Wake County Judge Ned Mangum granted Thomas and Venessa Mills joint custody of their children — …

You’re talking and talking and texting on your cell phone — but you don’t realize you could be harming the Earth as well, do you? We don’t give much thought to the environmental footprint of our handsets. It turns out that even our ubiquitous mobiles can be very harmful to …

After weeks of repair work to plug a hydrogen leak on the space shuttle Endeavour, NASA is now watching the weather for the spacecraft’s planned Saturday launch. Endeavour has a 40 percent chance of good weather for its weekend launch toward the International Space Station, though NASA is hopeful that …

Can you imagine a trip where your transportation, hotel, meals, and activities are free? Good, because your imagination is the only place where that vacation package is currently available. There has perhaps never been such a thing as a completely free trip, but if you’re willing to do some work …

The fight to keep Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs in San Francisco’s high schools is far from over, despite a last-minute push by veterans groups across the country. And who ultimately wins the battle could determine the future of the program in many cities throughout the U.S. Pentagon officials, …

What’s in a name? A lot more than history, apparently. Faculty at Brown University — the seventh-oldest and arguably the most progressive of America’s higher learning institutions — caved into pressure by students and teachers trying to right the perceived wrongs of history by voting earlier this month to rename …