The United States senate will vote on a controversial amendment today that could require the Census Bureau to ask the immigration status of everyone who participates in the 2010 survey and exclude illegal immigrants from the population count.. . . READ FULL STORY

Cuba is attempting to salvage its failing economy by making last ditch efforts to scale back on socialism, The Miami Herald reports. Leaders insist picking away at socialism is the only way to save it, but some experts say their efforts are just a. . . READ FULL STORY

200 families are homeless after a massive fire ripped through one of São Paulo's largest favelas (shanty towns). Nearly the entire district of the Diogo Pires was engulfed by the flames as the fire raged on for more than three hours. The fire. . . READ FULL STORY

Luis Armando Pena Soltren, 66, was barely 25 when he hijacked Pan American flight 281 alongside two other men on November 24, 1968. The plane was bound for Puerto Rico, but was forced to land in Cuba, a startling, but not rare, occurrence in those. . . READ FULL STORY

Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun is so over being asked about the end of the world. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff," Pixtun says. But it doesn't look as though the frantic anxiety about. . . READ FULL STORY