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“New rules requiring passports or new high-tech documents to cross the United States’ northern and southern borders are taking effect Monday, as some rue the tightening of security and others hail it as long overdue.” A hassle, yes, but surprising it took this long. It’s a new world: passports or special licenses now required.

The UAW’s already making things worse for the new GM. “UAW president Ron Gettelfinger noted Thursday that the union got GM to move production for 160,000 units of its of a small Chevrolet from China to the U.S.” It’s the failure to build these sort of cars efficiently that got GM into this mess initially.

(CNN) — A top Senate Republican is taking aim at recent statements from conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich suggesting Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a “racist.” “I think it’s terrible,” Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told NPR’s “All Things Considered” Thursday. “This is not the kind […]

TOKYO, May 29 — North Korea rattled its neighbors again Friday when it fired a short-range missile off its east coast, the sixth such firing since the secretive country conducted an underground nuclear test on Monday, and a large number of Chinese fishing boats left the disputed water off the western coast of the Korean […]