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U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, shown at left in 2005, temporarily blocked President Obama's executive actions on immigration, giving 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to permanently stop the orders.

Judge’s ruling derails plans of immigrants seeking legal status

June 23, 2019 at 9:29 a.m.

For weeks, Marly Arevalo has had her school transcripts and birth certificate ready. The 20-year-old community college student in Riverdale, Maryland, who immigrated illegally to the U.S. as a young...

Schoolchildren hold posters condemning the attack by Taliban militants on Pakistani mourners hold a funeral ceremony for victims of an attack by Taliban militants at the Army Public School in Peshawar.

After school attack, Pakistan vows to pursue militants outside its borders

June 23, 2019 at 3:15 p.m.

As the death toll rose to 148 from Tuesday's massacre at a military-funded high school, the crisis sent Pakistani leaders rushing to Kabul on Wednesday to make a rare request...

Musharraf gives deadline for Pakistan vote

August 21, 2021 at 3:39 p.m.

As a possible clash loomed between security forces and supporters of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday set a deadline of Feb. 15 for holding...

Blast kills dozens at Pakistan base

August 21, 2021 at 11:19 a.m.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives on a field filled with army recruits doing exercises in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday morning, killing at least 42 soldiers and wounding 20 in one...

Copter with up to 20 GIs aboard crashes in Afghanistan

August 22, 2021 at 6:04 p.m.

A U.S. military helicopter crashed Tuesday while carrying up to 20 American troops to reinforce a counterterrorism mission in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. officials confirmed. The fate of those on board...

Assistant recounts Massood’s murder

January 30, 2019 at 11:39 a.m.

Next to the crystal candy dish in Masood Khalili's parlor is a framed 1984 photograph of two men in combat fatigues, leaning against a rock in Afghanistan, their rifles resting...

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