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Fox News targets Latinos with new websiteWed May 19, 5:49 pm ET NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fox News plans to launch this fall a website aimed at a Latino audience as it seeks to build its coverage and links with one of the fastest-growing U.S. communities. Fox News, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, said on Wednesday the new site FOX News Latino (www.FoxNewsLatino.com) will provide original news and features focused exclusively on the Latino community. The U.S. Latino population is one of the fastest growing, accounting for around 15.4 percent of the population in 2008, up from...

I'm an American, but thanks to the Greatest Generation and all those guys Tom Hanks salutes on HBO, I've never had to carry papers to prove it. Now Arizona goes and throws a spanner in the works. What if, during a visit with friends in Tucson or a Grand Canyon excursion, I arouse reasonable suspicion that I'm the wrong kind of Mexican? It's not that I think I'll end up stuck in Nogales for life, but having to prove you're American seems, well, un-American. So I came up with a better-safe-than-sorry list we Americans of the Mexican persuasion might keep...

I’ll keep this short and sweet. There are White Nationalist factions in the Congress and particularly within the GOP who totally lost their minds when Barack Obama became President. These mostly Viagra’d out old farts serve less as spokespersons for We The People than they do for defense, oil, health insurance companies, Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, Wall Street, and just about anything regarded as “too big to fail.” They get paid phat in contributions by aiding those deeply rooted corporate thugs, who in turn make Ray-Ray or Jose’s gangbanging look like a bloody nose from a school yard fight. So...

The Democratic National Committee this morning released this clip of the president rallying the troops, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama's express goal: "reconnecting" with the voters who voted for the first time in 2008, but who may not plan to vote in the lower-profile Congressional elections this year. Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to "young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again."

Where is Bill Clinton?This ain't no Tea Party!Really, where is Bill Clinton? Wasn't he lecturing us just a week ago on protests could lead to violence? Where are all the media talking heads who echoed Clinton's absurd attempt to link the Tea Partiers to violence? Yet, here's a riot started by protesters against the new law in Arizona to toughen up enforcement on illegal immigration in Phoenix on April 23. Bottles were hurled at police and threats of violence that make even the rowdiest Tea Party look like a church picnic. You'll see the bottles thrown here, striking police officers...

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Arizona's governor vows the state's tough new law targeting illegal immigration will be implemented with no tolerance for racial profiling, but at least two advocacy groups were preparing legal challenges and Mexico has warned that the law could affect cross-border relations. On Friday, Phoenix mayor Phil Gordon was just the first to tell CBS 5 News he wants to sue over Senate Bill 1070. He's asked the council to prepare a challenge to the immigration bill on constitutional grounds. Gordon is far from alone in wanting to challenge the new law. Dan Pachoda is the legal director...

The gang announced itself with an attack at the Christie subway station in Toronto in the summer of 2007 that saw a 13-year-old paralyzed and three men hospitalized, an act meant as the initiation into the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation for one man by attacking another who hinted he wanted to leave. A national hunt for suspects followed and in 2008 officers raided two Toronto apartments, uncovering a treasure trove of information on the unusual gang's inner workings, including its manifesto, membership lists and the Bible used to swear in new recruits.

Census Day was a big day at the office of the National Council of La Raza, not only because it was the final day of the drive to reduce the chronic undercount of Hispanic residents but because it marked a time when Latinos in the United States could obtain the latest measure of their growing political power. The largest and fastest-growing minority group finds itself in an anomalous position this year. In some respects, its stature has never been higher, with the Supreme Court appointment of Sonia Sotomayor signaling that one more historic barrier has fallen to the talent and...

In Barack Obama's first year as president, African-Americans have struggled to bridge a wide equality gap with whites, in particular in the area of jobs, a report said Wednesday. In the annual "State of Black America" report, the National Urban League (NUL) said black unemployment numbers were nearly double those of whites as "the ravages of the recession" hit minorities much harder than whites. "These are tough times in America and they require a powerful and immediate response," said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the 100-year-old civil rights group. The "already struggling" African-American community risks falling "deeper into poverty...

State Sen. Abel Maldonado, the moderate Santa Maria Republican running for lieutenant governor, opened his speech to party convention delegates Saturday afternoon by acknowledging the discomfort many of them have with him for supporting new taxes, among other votes he has taken. When he walked into the room, he said, a delegate greeted him by saying, "Hey Abel, I think you're with the wrong party." "And I looked at him, and I said, 'I'm not with the wrong party, I'm with the right party. Let me tell you why.' " Maldonado, who spoke after the room had somewhat emptied following...

PHOENIX (AP)—Los Angeles Angels center fielder Torii Hunter(notes) insists he meant no harm toward Latino players when he referred to them as “impostors” while discussing the number of African-Americans in the major leagues. Hunter’s original comments were made two weeks ago in one of a series of USA Today roundtables about baseball and published in Wednesday’s editions.

AUSTIN — Hispanic candidates ran strongly in many Republican primary races across Texas this week, but two candidates are blaming their losses to Anglos on racially polarized voting. Election returns and political consultants, however, say the losses of Railroad Commissioner Victor Carrillo and Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Leo Vasquez probably had more to do with personal issues and poorly run campaigns than ethnicity. Carrillo's father and half brother died last year, and Carrillo underwent surgery for a benign brain tumor, all cutting into the time Carrillo spent campaigning for re-election. Vasquez lost social conservative support, Harris County Republicans said, because...

We are in the ugly situation of being governed by Marxist socialists because of a few groups of voters who turned their back on American freedoms for their own benefit by voting for Obama. Hispanics were one such group. The media constantly touts Hispanics as “conservatives” and thus people real conservatives should kowtow to for fear they would stop supporting Republicans. Those of us that watch politics know calling Hispanics “conservatives” is a lie. Texas GOP Governor Rick Perry has been on the frontline of dealing with these “conservative” Hispanics and his sorry record should serve as a reminder of...

TAMPA, Fla. — He was 28. She was 11. Her parents said they gave consent, claiming cultural norms of the Guatemalan highlands. But in Dover, Florida, a little girl with a baby raises questions. When deputies came, Teodoro Pablo-Ramirez understood only some of what they said, according to his lawyer. He speaks no English and little Spanish — just the Mayan tongue of Mam. The indigenous language, understood by few interpreters, has stymied court cases across the country. One interpreting service in Washington resorted to recruiting a Mam speaker out of a jail lobby. In Hillsborough Circuit Court, two cases,...

Democratic Legislator Slams Obama For Failure To Deliver On Immigration Reform, Warns of Latino Backlash At The Polls February 1, 2010 Many Latinos are furious at President Obama for failing to deliver on promises to push immigration reform legislation and may stay away from the polls during this year's midterm elections if they don't see concrete progress, including legalization of undocumented immigrants, a key Democratic legislator said Monday. “People are angry and disillusioned,” U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Chicago) said in an interview with The Times. Gutierrez said that Obama’s failure to push immigration reform was symbolized by his State of...

The judicial keelhauling of New York's Bravest continues apace. Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis -- without a shred of evidence that the FDNY had discriminated against minority applicants -- last week imposed strict racial hiring quotas on the department. For every five new hires, Garaufis ordered, the department must reserve two spots for black applicants and one for Hispanic applicants -- until precisely 293 minority firefighters have been hired. He also ruled that fully 7,400 minority applicants who took the FDNY entrance exam in 1999 and 2002 could claim monetary damages from the city. It's a ruling as absurd as it...

The Washington Post publicizing a report by the liberal Economic Policy Institute (EPI), written helpfully enough that the word "liberal" isn’t used, is usually a media-bias staple for economic gearheads. But Friday’s Post report by V. Dion Haynes might be seen by other Obama-helpers in the media as an unwelcome story. The headline: "U.S. unemployment rate for blacks projected to hit 25-year high." Unemployment for African Americans is projected to reach a 25-year high this year, according to a study released Thursday by an economic think tank, with the national rate soaring to 17.2 percent and the rates in five...

MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE JUST DROOLING FOR THIS REID/OBAMA HEALTH CARE FARCENow that Christians have once again celebrated the birth of their savior Jesus Christ with love and sharing it’s sad that we must return to the mundane and seriously imperfect world of political correctness where lies and fraudulent promises are everyday fare for the pretenders. But those who are the most guilty of such deceitfulness have too much at stake to suddenly change to truthfulness. I speak mainly of the current rulers of our government in both houses of Congress and the Administration in the White House. They...

A new, comprehensive survey of young Latinos paints a mixed picture of their footing in the United States. They express overall satisfaction with their lives, despite high levels of poverty and teenage pregnancy, while carving an identity based more on their parents’ home country rather than labels like “American” or even “Hispanic” or “Latino.”

Note: The following text is a quote: MS-13 Gunman Sentenced 80 Years for Attempted Murder ALEXANDRIA, VA—Dennis L. Gil Bernardez, 33, of Landover, Md., the gunman in an MS-13 shooting, was sentenced to 80 years in prison today for attempting to murder rival gang members on Oct. 6, 2008, at a park near homes in Reston, Va. His accomplice, Jose M. Aguilar Orantes, 18, of Reston, Va., who provided the firearm, was sentenced to 55 years in prison for his role in the attempted murders. A third member, Carlos B. Guzman Cruz, 25, of Richmond, Va., was sentenced to 144...