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PROPOSED new offences for identity crimes are needed to fill "gaps" in existing federal and state laws and should carry jail terms of up to five years.

Younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as well - sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks.

Businessman Ward Connerly of California marches on with his effort to ban the practice across the nation.

THE Immigration Department will reduce its release cycles for the $495 Systems for People project to ease pressure on staff members.

The United States has escalated its unilateral strikes against al-Qaeda members and fighters operating in Pakistan's tribal areas, partly because of anxieties that Pakistan's new leaders will insist on scaling back military operations in that country, according to U.S. officials.

LOS ANGELES, March 26 -- Sen. John McCain on Wednesday promised a collaborative foreign policy that would seek the input of allies abroad and would contrast sharply with the go-it-alone approach of the Bush administration.

President Bush announced yesterday that he will make an unexpected trip to Russia after a NATO summit next week to meet with President Vladimir Putin in hopes of repairing relations that have grown strained over missile defense, Kosovo independence and NATO expansion.

Israel's PM says he is committed to reaching outline of peace agreement with Mahmoud Abbas this year

US president urges Chinese government to resume talks with representatives of Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama

Official says Bacar now on French-run island of Mayotte with about 12 who fled with him