Romney said it would “not be American” to check the papers of workers employed by a contractor simply because they have a “funny accent.” He had landscapers at his Belmont, Mass., home who turned out were in the country illegally.
Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) will announce this afternoon that he’s retiring from the Senate late next month, stunning Republicans who had only last year reinstated the 67-year-old to their leadership ranks.