Eliot L Engel

WASHINGTON -- Some new traditions have taken hold amid the familiar rituals of a State of the Union address, and they seem to have a common goal: drawing some of the spotlight away from the president and to his audience. The newest push on the part of...

The United States lacks a coordinated strategy to stem the flow of weapons across its southern border, a failure that has fueled the rise of powerful criminal cartels and violence in Mexico, according to a government watchdog agency report being...

Even as the federal government is starting to crack down on companies that hire illegal immigrants, it's been helping those same workers send money home, cheap. Dubbed Directo a Mexico, the Federal Reserve-sponsored service allows customers without...

WASHINGTON - President Bush narrowed his request to Congress yesterday for authorization to launch a unilateral attack against Iraq, offering to impose some limits on a broad resolution he proposed last week. The new language was an effort to forge a...

Dozens of survivors remain in hospitals in New York area NEW YORK - Dozens of the thousands of people injured in the World Trade Center attacks remained hospitalized yesterday with serious or critical injuries. Among them was a 30-year-old woman...

Twice before, the anti-drug agents had gotten a tip about a load of cocaine at the hulking industrial park on this dreary stretch of highway half an hour outside Guatemala City. Twice before, a U.S. official said, they had found nothing. On their third...

The United States lacks a coordinated strategy to stem the flow of weapons smuggled across its southern border, a failure that has fueled the rise of powerful criminal cartels and violence in Mexico, a government watchdog agency report has found. The...