Titanic's Unknown Child Given New, Final Identity

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110426/sc_livescience/titanicsunknownchildgivennewfinalidentity
The effort to verify the child's identity using genetics began a little over a decade ago, when Ryan Parr, an adjunct professor at Lakehead University in Ontario who has worked with DNA extracted from ancient human remains, watched some videos about the Titanic

Taliban tunnel more than 480 out of Afghan prison

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110425/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
The Kandahar escape is the latest in a series of high-profile Taliban operations that show the insurgency is fighting back.

CIA declassifies WWI-era secret documents

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110420/ap_on_re_us/us_cia_secret_writing
documents suggests methods for passing secret messages. chemicals come out when the cloth is placed in water. liquid becomes invisible ink, that can be loaded into a pen and used to write a message.

Arizona Not Invited To Obama's Immigration Reform Discussion

http://www.kpho.com/news/27605242/detail.html
On Monday, injured after a high speed chase just south of Casa Grande ended in a physical altercation with an illegal immigrant from Mexico transporting a quarter million dollars in pot.

Georgia Passes Immigration Law

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/united-states/georgia-passes-immigration-law-54847.htm
lA federal court did block key parts of the Arizona bill. Utah passed its own immigration law this year, which is quite different from the Arizona and Georgia bills. It creates a temporary guest worker status for illegal immigrants who are otherwise law-abiding.

Man recruited fake army in immigration scam, prosecutors say

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-04-13-fake-army-20110413,0,4439012.story
Assemblyman Mike Eng (D-Monterey Park) was pictured in the Chinese-language press at the sixth anniversary celebration for what is believed to be one branch of the group. He was there with his wife, U.S. Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park), and other dignitaries.

Here’s the Real Adult Conversation on Deficits: The U.S. Has a Taxing Problem

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Here-Real-Adult-Conversation-dg-73731796.html?x=0
numerous species of faux-fiscal hawks are enthused about the prospect of some grand bargain that would reduce the debt while not raising taxes on any of the people whose donations support Washington think tanks. I'm less enthused about the prospects for two big reasons.

Mayor Speaks Out About Illegal Immigration Bill

http://www.waaytv.com/news/local/story/Mayor-Speaks-Out-About-Illegal-Immigration-Bill/LzkES_LDaUeH-CFt--8c2A.cspx
Supporters say bill would save money by reducing health care education and law. Opponents say it would cause more jail overcrowding and racial profiling.

British spy files shed light on Nazi saboteurs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110404/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_spy_fileschronicles
German attempts to use poison as a postwar weapon. Intelligence from captured Nazi agents indicated there were plans to contaminate alcoholic drinks with methanol, inject sausages with poison and prepare "poisoned Nescafe, sugar, German cigarettes and German chocolate."