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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand continues her courtship of the public. Yesterday she met for nearly two hours with Hispanic elected officials concerned about her stand on immigration. WNYC's Arun Venugopal has more.

GILLIBRAND: Thank you for your guidance. Thank you for your advice. I feel we will work together...

ARROYO: Yes, we are ...

A group of Latino elected officials is refusing to back newly appointed US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand until she changes her positions on immigration.

REPORTER: The city and state officials, who met with Gillibrand Sunday, want her to renounce her earlier support for border enforcement and for making English the official language. ...

City lawmakers and activists plan a rally at City Hall this afternoon to protest U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's record on immigration issues. WNYC's Elaine Rivera reports.

REPORTER: The coalition of politicians and immigrant activists say they're alarmed over what they describe as Gillibrand's anti-immigrant positions. Gillibrand represented a conservative upstate district, ...

Political oppression, violence, hyper-inflation, plus a recent cholera epidemic have devastated the southern African nation of Zimbabwe. But it’s an even more unforgiving place for people with disabilities – who are often shunned for cultural reasons. A band of disabled musicians from Zimbabwe is now touring the United States. WNYC’s ...

Over 10 million Hispanic voters turned out on Election Day and they overwhelmingly cast their support for President Obama, who received twice as many votes from the Hispanic community than John McCain. Now that Obama is in the Oval Office it’s time for Latinos to cash in and push their agenda. The question is: are they organized enough to maximize the power that they’ve earned? Joining us for a look at how Latinos need to leverage their political influence is Gebe Martinez. She’s a longtime Washington watchdog and a Politico contributor.

Read Gebe Martinez's article, Latinos fight for political recognition at Politico.com

Vicente Calderon, editor of The Tijuana Press, and Amy Isackson, KPBS border reporter, talk about the spike in violence along the Mexico/U.S. border.

Voters in Nashville, Tennessee head to the polls today to decide whether English should be the only language for all government business in town. This means marriage licenses, parking tickets, and court summons could only be written and responded to in English. Reporter Blake Farmer of WPLN has been covering the “English First" movement since the legislation was first proposed more than a year ago. He joins us from Nashville.

It's still too early to tell whether a program that pays poor parents cash for taking their kids to school or to the doctor for check ups is working. But as WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports, so far, families have received $7.6 million from the program.

REPORTER: The so-called conditional cash transfer ...

As the first Indian to head a U.S. synagogue, Romiel Daniel, president of the Rego Park Jewish Center, will talk about the tragedy in Mumbai, his hometown.

It is a holiday popular mostly with Mexican immigrants: the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Since Thursday night pilgrims have been congregating at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Manhattan where the priest is blessing people's icons and rosaries.

The church altar is covered with wave upon wave of flowers.

Monsignor Kevin ...

Council speaker Christine Quinn helped hand out flyers this morning at a subway station in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

The flyer shows a picture of a young African-American male. The suspect along with several others, allegedly beat 31 year old Jose Sucuzhanay with a baseball bat.

Police say the attackers made anti-gay and anti-Hispanic ...

The case of a Pakistani immigrant who was held in solitary confinement in a Brooklyn prison after the September 11th attacks reached the Supreme Court.

His lawyers and the government will argue over whether then Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller have to give testimony about policy decisions ...

When a Brooklyn Rabbi and his wife were taken hostage during the Mumbai terrorist attacks 2 weeks ago, Rabbis with Chabad here in the United States went urgently looking for someone who could speak Urdu, English, Hebrew and Yiddish. The man they found is Pace University Professor P.V. Viswanath and ...

Bronx Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo is urging the public to help police find the attackers.

ARROYO: This crime is not against one individual. It's a crime against a community of people that are working hard to make a big contribution to this society.

REPORTER: Authorities say one of the four attackers made anti-gay ...

Roberto Lovato hopes an Obama administration can "turn the tortilla" on immigration reform.

An Orthodox Jewish community in Crown Heights is mourning the deaths of a young Brooklyn rabbi and his wife in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, saying it's a big loss. Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, vice chairman of educational services for the Chabad Lubavitch Movement, says he spoke regularly with ...

Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, reporter for Feet in 2 Worlds and for the Polish Daily News, talks about immigrants returning to Poland because of the economic downturn.

As President-elect Obama prepares to take office, our neighbors to the south have a few suggestions for the incoming president. A new report from the Brookings Institution documents several of them: expanding free trade, changing the rhetoric on the war on drugs, even normalizing relations with Cuba. The director of the Latin America Institute at Brookings joins the Takeaway to discuss the possibility of new approaches to Latin American relations.

Twenty-seven construction workers have died on the job this year, and a slowing economy may not do a whole lot to solve this problem.

REPORTER: For the past nine months, WNYC reporters Cindy Rodriguez and Matthew Schuerman have been investigating the downside of the city’s building boom. Here's a look at ...