Month: October 2012

Community News San Antonio, Texas – Over $40,000 was raised recently at the annual charitable gala and leadership conference of the Texas Indo-American Physician Society, Southwest Chapter (TIPS-SW). The money will be used to support local charities, international causes and a new scholarship program. The annual event sponsored by the doctors, local hospitals and medical vendors here was held on September 15 at the Holy Trinity Banquet Hall. It was attended by more than 450 local Indian physicians and people in medical fields. TIPS-SW has held this annual charitable event for four years in a row, and has been one...

By Miranda Leitsinger, NBC News California’s governor late Sunday vetoed a bill that would have allowed police and sheriffs to free undocumented immigrants from custody once they became eligible for release even if there were requests by federal immigration authorities to hold them for possible deportation proceedings. Immigration advocates say the federal requests, known as detainers or holds, cast a wide dragnet that has ensnared even those who had committed minor crimes or no offenses at all. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement had said the program was instrumental in helping enforce immigration laws and in getting violent offenders off...

By Jana Winter and Jeremy A. Kaplan – Fox News Washington, October 01, 2012 – White House sources partly confirmed an alarming report thatU.S. government computers — reportedly including systems used by the military for nuclear commands — were breached by Chinese hackers. “This was a spear phishing attack against an unclassified network,” a White House official told FoxNews.com. “These types of attacks are not infrequent and we have mitigation measures in place.” A law enforcement official who works with members of the White House Military Office confirmed the Chinese attack to FoxNews.com on Monday, but it remains unclear what...