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WASHINGTON – The Homeland Security Department (search) arrested 57 illegal immigrants last month working at airports and other risk-sensitive facilities around the country, underscoring concerns that lax employment background checks are leaving a security breach for terrorists to exploit. In one example, a Peruvian was hired as an airplane mechanic …

TEL AVIV, Israel – Former Israeli President Ezer Weizman (search), a flying ace and crack military commander who built up the nation’s air force and helped bring about the Jewish state’s first peace treaty with an Arab country, died Sunday. He was 80. Weizman, who was president from 1993 to …

WASHINGTON – House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (search) treated his political donors to a bird’s-eye view of a Three Tenors (search) concert from an arena skybox leased by a lobbyist now under criminal investigation. DeLay’s political action committee did not reimburse lobbyist Jack Abramoff (search) for the May 2000 use …