The House "Gang of Seven" comprehensive immigration reform plan would grant "probation" to the undocumented and require them to admit their guilt in having broken US law.

American tourist raped by three men on her way back to her guest home Tuesday morning.

The group of bipartisan representatives reached a deal last night, improving odds that some form of a major immigration reform bill would be passed.

The House says their own "Gang of Eight" is 95 percent of the way there on an agreement, but compromise on the last details has been frustrated. The Senate has already released its own bill proposal, which the Senate Judiciary Committee is working on amending.

In a country wrought with violence, gang members are allegedly disappearing after confrontations with the national police.

Thirteen prison officers were indicted on charges they allowed gang activity to run rampant in Baltimore jail

In response to Senator Chuck Grassley's comments citing the Boston Marathon bombings as reason for slow deliberation on the immigration reform bill, legislators from both sides of the aisle who had participated in the bill's creation issued rebukes.

Undocumented immigrants who arrived to the U.S. before Dec. 31, 2011 and lived there continuously since could apply for provisional legal status.

Undocumented immigrants who arrived after Dec. 31, 2011 would not be considered eligible for legal status and, later, citizenship under the Gang of Eight's plan.

The bipartisan "Gang of Eight" has agreed on a new visa program for non-agricultural guest workers.

A map issued by Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs recommends a "high degree of caution" in Brazil, which will host the World Cup in 2014.

Three suspects have been arrested after being identified by the victims.

Honduran anti-drug agents on Saturday broke up an alleged gang of synthetic drug producers and seized $100 million in assets, a government spokesman said.

The United States on Thursday imposed financial penalties on violent Latin American street gang MS-13, which has thousands of members operating in the United States and has been accused of human trafficking, kidnapping, murder, rape and other criminal activities.

The No. 2 figure in a Colombian drug gang that specialized in surreptitiously sending cocaine-laden "narco submarines" out of the South American country has been convicted of three drug conspiracy charges in Florida, authorities said on Thursday.