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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Friday promised only to “address” any comprehensive immigration bill that manages to pass the Senate. Hoyer’s caution and refusal to commit to putting an immigration reform bill on the floor if one passes the Senate casts further doubt on Congress' ability to make immigration reform a reality before the end of the year. “The Senate has agreed to move this legislation first, and we think that's appropriate,” Hoyer said Friday in an appearance on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.” “The Senate was unable to move a bill in the last Congress, and we'll see if they...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British Airways cabin crew member was taken to a London hospital as a precaution after developing flu-like symptoms on a flight from Mexico City, the airline said on Saturday.

Mexico's federal Human Rights Commission acknowledged on Wednesday that the country uses some of the same methods in dealing with illegal migrants that it has criticized the United States for employing..."As a matter of fact, (Mexico's) population law does include prison terms for illegally entering the country ... and this is something that has been the subject of constant complaints," said Mauricio Farah, a national inspector for the rights commission....

A suspect is in federal custody after passengers say he threatened an infant and tried to charge the cockpit of an airplane en route to Honolulu. No air marshal was aboard, but seven passengers tackled and subdued him. Passengers say the man's strange behavior started just a couple hours after Northwest Flight 91 took off from Los Angeles. "He came up to first class several times, and at one point he really startled me... He came up to my left shoulder, and he got right in my face and he said something in Spanish -- he said something about medicine,...