With Hurricane Sandy taking aim at the northeast, the monster storm expected to wreck havoc on a huge swath of the country is already shaking up the presidential race a little more than a week before election. The presidential candidates, whose campaigns have reached a fever pitch eight days before Election Day, are scrambling to […]
It was delayed so long perhaps it is fitting than when immigration finally came up in the presidential debates, it came in a back door. One of the undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization to ask questions at the candidates’ epic confrontation at Hofstra University Tuesday night, a Long Island woman named Susan Katz, […]
The DREAM Act. Amnesty. Kris Kobach. Illegals. Undocumented. Arizona. The second presidential debate on Tuesday night finally touched on immigration—one of the towering issues among Latinos—and it came loaded with all the trigger words that send temperatures rising. There was little new in what President Obama and challenger Republican Mitt Romney said about their views […]
Shakira and her man Gerard Piqué have decided to name their baby boy Biel, and not Ulises asit which had been rumored, El Nuevo Dia is reporting. The daily says that according to multiple news outlets in Spain, Piqué was the one who suggested the name for his bundle of joy with Shakira. Biel, says the publication, comes […]
Mexico’s Maite Perroni is hailed by fans as “the telenovela queen,” but behind the headlines and chart topping songs, the 29-year-old soap opera actress and singer was fighting a private battle. Her mother, one of her biggest supporters, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. “It was a very difficult moment for me and it […]
President Barack Obama features undocumented immigrants in a new campaign ad that he does entirely in Spanish. Titled Buen Ejemplo, which means “good example” in Spanish, Obama touts young undocumented immigrants known as DREAMers as people he admires and who inspire him. Their drive and determination, the ad suggests, serve as a good model for […]
Nowhere was the consensus more clear on the outcome of Wednesday’s presidential debate than social media. While the 90-minute sparring match spurred a variety of reactions, three things were made abundantly clear: Big Bird is endangered, Jim Lehrer lost control and Mitt Romney crushed President Barack Obama. It was the first presidential election since the […]
The first debate of the presidential campaign will be taking place in a state that tipped in favor of President Barack Obama in 2008, when he became only the second Democrat to win Colorado since 1964. It is also where, like the rest of the country, unemployment is high—the economy and the federal debt dominated […]
For most Americans, human and sex trafficking is a practice that evokes far-away lands of underdevelopment and need. But according to recent studies, it is a matter that is creeping in through the cracks of broken homes across the country and also through the porous Mexican border. In an effort to curb the spread of […]