There are many steps to US Naturalization that must be completed before you can be approved to become a US citizen. The normal processing time for naturalization is usually six months. Today, due to the extremely high applications sent by a Naturalization Lawyer to USCIS, the process can take 16 to 18 months. The first [...]

Around 10,000 women marched through central Cairo demanding Egypt’s ruling military step down Tuesday in an unprecedented show of outrage over soldiers who dragged women by the hair and stomped on them, and stripped one half-naked in the street during a fierce crackdown on activists the past week. The dramatic protest, which grew as the [...]

The number of violent crimes reported in the United States fell 6.4 percent in the first six months of 2011 compared to the same period last year, the FBI reported Monday. The US law enforcement agency’s preliminary semiannual crime report, based on information from more than 12,500 local police agencies, found declines in homicide, rape, [...]

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin strongly criticized U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday, accusing her of encouraging and funding Russians protesting election fraud, and warned of a wider Russian crackdown on dissent. By describing Russia’s parliamentary election as rigged, Putin said Clinton “gave a signal” to his opponents. “They heard this signal and [...]

First results emerged from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s chaotic elections on Tuesday but some voters were still casting their ballots in a vote tainted by confusion, violence and allegations of fraud. Organisers pushed ahead with the presidential and parliamentary elections in the vast Central African nation on Monday despite fears that logistical delays and [...]

A man charged with attempting to assassinate US President Barack Obama by firing an assault rifle at the White House has been declared fit to stand trial, but the government Monday called for more tests and a full competency hearing. Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, 21, who allegedly called Obama the “devil” and the “anti-Christ,” appeared briefly in [...]

Three American college students detained for several days in Cairo as deadly protests swept Egypt have flown home to freedom, one describing an ordeal so terrifying he wasn’t sure he would survive. “I was not sure I was going to live,” 19-year-old Georgetown University student Derrik Sweeney told The Associated Press by telephone moments after [...]

President Barack Obama is coming out against swag. That’s swag, as in the coffee mugs, pens, T-shirts and other public relations articles that federal government agencies purchase with taxpayer money to promote their work. The swag ban is part of an executive order the president will sign on Wednesday to cut waste and make government [...]

A conservative-leaning appeals court panel on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care law, as the Supreme Court prepares to consider this week whether to resolve conflicting rulings over the law’s requirement that all Americans buy health care insurance. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia [...]

The mother of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose triumph over childhood abandonment proved a lasting inspiration to the chief US diplomat, has died at the age of 92. Dorothy Rodham, who was born in Chicago on June 4, 1919, died shortly after midnight on Tuesday surrounded by her family, the family said in a [...]