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PHOENIX (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department is filing a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's tough new law targeting illegal immigrants. The planned lawsuit was confirmed to The Associated...

I see now that the Obama administration is planning on suing the state of Arizona over the recently passed legislation (Arizona SB 1070) requiring police officers to check the immigration...

SAN DIEGO -- Several weeks ago, after a column critical of President Obama, a woman wrote to say that she agreed with me.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says she and President Barack Obama have agreed to try to work together on a solution to the nation's immigration and border security...

I'd like to give a compliment to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer for signing the law that allows state and local law enforcement to question people on their immigration status if...

PHOENIX (AP) -- Law officers backed by helicopters hunted gunmen in Arizona's desert early today after a sheriff's deputy was wounded by suspected marijuana smugglers, officials said.

PHOENIX (AP) -- A sheriff's deputy was shot and wounded Friday after encountering a group of suspected illegal immigrants who apparently had been hauling bales of marijuana along a major...

SAN DIEGO -- Joe Arpaio, who calls himself "America's toughest sheriff," has gone rogue. Consumed by ego, accused of racial profiling, and running roughshod over the federal government, this incurable...

Trent Benson was the sort of young man who was named captain of his high school swim team in Fosston, Minn.; who kept in touch with classmates years after graduation,...