Entries for June 2007

The Senate drove a stake Thursday through President Bush’s plan to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants, likely postponing major action on immigration until after the 2008 elections.The bill’s supporters fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to li...

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas killer whose lawyers argued that he should not be put to death because he is mentally ill.The court ruled 5-4 in the case of Scott Louis Panetti, who shot his in-laws to death 15 ye...

The economy limped ahead at just a 0.7 percent pace in the first quarter, the slowest in more than four years, as some businesses clamped down on spending given uncertainties about the severity of the housing slump.The Commerce Department’s new readi...

The Senate drove a stake Thursday through President Bush’s plan to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants, likely postponing major action on immigration until after the 2008 elections.The bill’s supporters fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to li...

The Senate drove a stake Thursday through President Bush’s plan to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants, likely postponing major action on immigration until after the 2008 elections.The bill’s supporters fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to li...