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In recent years, politicians have treated immigration as the third rail. But as the number of Hispanics grows — and as they turn out in greater numbers at the polls — advocates say the issue of immigration will be harder to ignore.

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Last week's closure of UT's Accessibility Institute has caused former colleagues of UT researcher John Slatin and advocates of the institute to voice concern.

Slatin, who died in April, established the Institute in the mid-1990s as a center to conduct research on how to make technology more accessible for people with disabilities.

The retail giant defines produce grown in the same state as "locally grown." But advocates of locally grown food say only produce with short traveling times deserve the label.

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Support for more U.S. oil drilling is on the rise, despite the opinions of many analysts who say the potential supply is too small to significantly lower the price.

A key House committee was set to grill home lenders and housing advocates on Friday about mortgage industry efforts to work out affordable loans for troubled homeowners.

With the price of hay up and adoptions down, the government may begin euthanizing wild horses. There are currently about 30,000 of them in federal holding centers; a number wild horse advocates blame on careless management.

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Researcher advocates scanning live blood flow in the palm as a means of preventing false positives.

A pivotal meeting of international delegates to decide the fate of Microsoft's Open XML finished on Friday with advocates and foes of the standards bid predicting victory.

Brian Jones, a program manager at Microsoft involved in the process to standardize Open XML, posted a blog Friday saying that consensus ...