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Pena Nieto says he'll show PRI's 'new face' Tracy Wilkinson and Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times MEXICO CITY -- He bears tiny white scars all over his hands from the sea of supporters who grasped at his outstretched arms, clawing to greet him, during three months of music-filled rallies and mobbed appearances in almost every Mexican state. For months now, images of the handsome young politician and his glamorous soap-opera-star wife have filled Mexican television screens and fan ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

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Some African-Americans think Obama takes their votes for granted William Douglas and David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign recently launched a radio ad aimed at African-American voters titled "We've Got Your Back." But will enough African-American voters have his in November? There's no doubt that African-Americans will vote for him in overwhelming numbers. Instead, the debate among African-Americans is whether a president who's gone out of his ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

Slaughterhouse owners accuse city officials of discrimination Corina Knoll, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES -- Something reeks in Rosemead, Calif. Some say it's the slaughterhouse on Garvey Avenue. Others say it's a bigoted attitude toward the company's Asian clientele that stinks. For two decades, Chinese American Live Poultry has sold freshly killed birds you can grab by the feet and look in the eye. Located on an industrial corridor where the traffic is thick and ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

California protections for whistle-blowers don't apply to workers on federal land Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES -- An obscure legal doctrine leaves whistle-blowers at the San Onofre nuclear plant with less legal protection than other California workers, including employees at the state's only other nuclear plant. San Onofre is majority owned and operated by Southern California Edison, a private company, but it sits on land leased from the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base. ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

Mitt Romney's father pushed an aggressive civil rights agenda Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In 1963, an explosive year in the quest for civil rights, George Romney appeared unannounced in the mostly white suburb of Grosse Pointe and marched to the front of an anti-segregation demonstration to stand beside black leaders. Letters from startled constituents poured into the office of the first-term Michigan governor, whose son Mitt was then 16. Supporters who... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

Asylum requests on the rise in wake of Georgia's immigration law Nicole Chavez, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ATLANTA -- In the year since Georgia passed a law to crack down on illegal immigration, the number of asylum applications filed by Mexicans in Atlanta's immigration court has increased fourfold. A few applicants have personal experience of Mexico's drug-fueled violence. Many others have not been touched by the bloodshed but are using it as grounds to argue that they should not be ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

Congress preparing for a 'cashless society' Ian Duncan, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- When Abraham Lincoln allowed the Treasury to print money for the first time in the depths of the Civil War, it was a major innovation born of a pressing reality. The Union was broke. Now, 150 years later, in admittedly less dire circumstances, Congress is preparing itself for the next big thing when it comes to money -- a future in which payments are made with ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

74-year-old Marineland celebrates its past while moving forward Melissa Ruggieri, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution MARINELAND, Fla. -- Her eyes are cloudy now, a blueish-gray haze blocking out some of the sunlight that glints off the water in her habitat. She doesn't always move as nimbly as the dozen other dolphins sharing her space, either. But that's OK, because Nellie has something they don't. She has seniority -- 59 years of it, more than double the normal age of an ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It