With federal authorities stepping up immigration enforcement raids across the country, Sens. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert Menendez of New Jersey are sponsoring a bill to protect the rights of U.S. citizens and legal residents who get caught up in them.

The Protect Citizens and Residents from Unlawful Raids and Detention Act was introduced on Sept. 25 to push for more stringent legal procedures to be followed by authorities executing immigration-related searches and warrants.

Immigration officials have conducted a series of high-profile workplace raids across the country in recent months, including one earlier this week at a poultry processing plant in Greenville, S.C.

Barack Obama took his campaign to Shawnee State University last night, following stops in Dayton, Cincinnati and Georgetown.

After a week of tumult on Wall Street and Washington, the House moved toward a final vote Friday on a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry, an unprecedented government intervention designed to steady ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Giving both President Bush and Gov. Matt Blunt failing grades for their performance, Democratic Attorney Jay Nixon said Thursday that his Republican gubernatorial opponent would just bring ...

Private markets fail, politicians from both parties jump to their rescue, and taxpayers get stuck with the bill.

US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said last night a recently approved financial bailout bill gives him wide authority to inject capital into the banking system and would not rule out having Treasury take an ...