http://www.mydesert.com en-us Copyright 2013, mydesert SaxoTech Online Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:43:23 -0700 15 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130619/NEWS11/306190037 Border authorities from South Texas to Southern California are increasingly unable to prosecute small-time smugglers caught bringing drugs into the United States now that the U.S. Justice Department has largely done away with paying state and local prosecutors to take on relatively minor federal drug busts, citing budget constraints. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:05:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130619/NEWS11/306190037 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130618/NEWS11/306180033 The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:25:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130618/NEWS11/306180033 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130618/NEWS11/306180023 There's no guarantee that President Barack Obama's health care law will launch smoothly and on time, congressional investigators say in the first in-depth independent look at its progress. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:42:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130618/NEWS11/306180023 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130618/NEWS11/306180021 A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people 'had been mean to her' - then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along with her young daughter, at the hands of three people, authorities said Tuesday. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:41:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130618/NEWS11/306180021 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130618/NEWS11/306180017 About 8 million immigrants living unlawfully in the United States would gain legal status under sweeping legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, adding the bill would push federal deficits lower in each of the next two decades. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:10:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130618/NEWS11/306180017 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130618/NEWS11/306180016 The U.S. House of Representatives passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats condemned as another example of what they see as Republicans' war on women. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:04:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130618/NEWS11/306180016 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130618/NEWS11/306180004 Afghanistan officials will open a U.S.-backed office in the Gulf nation of Qatar as early as Tuesday to facilitate direct peace talks with the Taliban, according to three senior administration officials. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:28:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130618/NEWS11/306180004 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130617/NEWS11/306170003 The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:58:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130617/NEWS11/306170003 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130616/NEWS11/306160010 When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details this month on the government's collection of Americans' phone and Internet records, one select group of intelligence veterans breathed a sigh of relief. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:34:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130616/NEWS11/306160010 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130616/NEWS11/306160002 A private jet that had former President George W. Bush on board made an emergency landing Saturday night. Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:59:00 -0700 http://www.mydesert.com/viewart/20130616/NEWS11/306160002