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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the parents of a 15-year-old boy cannot sue the federal agent who shot him by firing across the border separating the United States and Mexico — a case that inflamed tensions over border security. The ruling was a defeat for the parents of Sergio Hernandez Guereca, who was on the Mexico side when he was killed in 2010 by a Border Patrol agent who fired from the U.S. side of the boundary separating El Paso, Texas, from Juarez, Mexico. The teen, a Mexican national, was playing with three friends in the cement culvert...

Go Sox! The other Sox, that is THE WORLD SERIES starts tomorrow with the Chicago White Sox facing the Houston Astros. Normally, we would not take sides, as the better-colored Sox are watching from home. But two White Sox players give us reason to cheer for their team. Jose Contreras and Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez are two of the greatest baseball players their home country has ever produced. The country is Cuba, and its tyrannical ruler, Fidel Castro, has labeled Contreras and Hernandez traitors for daring to provide a better life for their families by escaping to the West to...