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WASHINGTON – President Bush sent Congress a $1.9 billion request Thursday to increase border security as supporters of sweeping immigration legislation reasserted control in Senate debate. The White House said the money would pay for the “first 1,000 of 6,000 new Border Patrol agents that will be deployed in the …

NEW ORLEANS – There were so many dead fish floating on the surface, Aquarium of the Americas staff recalled of the days after Hurricane Katrina, that it almost looked as if one could walk across the tops of the giant tanks. Those tanks are teeming with life again, and on …

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – “Did our dad have to die?” Peggy Cohen wanted to know as mine safety regulators opened an emotional public hearing on questions still surrounding the January disaster that left 12 men dying deep inside the Sago Mine. Families of the deceased miners held framed photographs of their …