El científico británico Stephen Hawking afirma en su nuevo libro, The Grand Design (El Magnífico Diseño), que el Big Bang fue una consecuencia inevitable de las leyes de la física, que Dios no creó el Universo y que las teorías científicas más actuales convierten en redundante la figura de...

The number of illegal immigrants in the United States, after peaking at 12 million in 2007, fell to about 11.1 million in 2009, the first clear decline in two decades, according to a report published Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center. The reduction came primarily from decreases among illegal immigrants...

I left the Glenn Beck rally worried that I didn’t have much of a story. It was all revival meeting, no political fireworks. The news reports accurately likened the atmosphere to that of a church picnic — and no reporter wants to write about a church picnic. But then I realized: The abundance...

Mexican authorities captured a legendary Texan on Monday who is accused of a bloody climb to the top echelon of one of the hemisphere’s most powerful drug cartels. Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as “La Barbie” for his looks, faces a slew of charges in Mexico but also is wanted in the United...

Being an administrative law judge can be nerve-racking. According to information released Monday by the Association of Administrative Law Judges and the National Association of Immigration Judges, federal employees who handle Social Security disability claims and immigration hearings have been the...

Various figures denote vexing social problems. They include 10,000 (the number of new baby boomers eligible for Social Security and Medicare every day), 10.2 percent (what the unemployment rate would be if 1.2 million discouraged workers had not recently stopped looking for jobs), $9.9 trillion (the...

The tweet sent a quiver through the blogosphere: “Google to launch Facebook competitor very soon.” That line from Kevin Rose, the tech entrepreneur who founded the content-sharing site Digg, unleashed a sense that the online world as we know it was about to fundamentally change. The idea...

Durante una mesa de análisis en la Universidad Nacional, una brillante investigadora interpeló a un destacado diputado federal del PRI, a propósito de la reforma laboral: ¿si tienen mayoría en la Cámara, por qué no legislan? Bastaría que listaran las exigencias más apremiantes, presentaran...

Col. Malcolm Frost knew there would be questions. The official end to the U.S. combat mission in Iraq was approaching, but his soldiers, operating in two of Iraq’s most dangerous provinces, would still be here. He sat down and penned a letter to the soldiers’ families. “01 Sept. 2010...

PRESIDENT OBAMA has a riposte for critics of his decision to rescue General Motors and Chrysler: You can’t argue with success. And much good news has emanated from Detroit of late, especially from GM. Having wiped out almost all of its debt through an administration-orchestrated bankruptcy process,...