Sgt. First Class Leroy Petry, the Latino soldier who was awarded a Medal of Honor by President Obama this past Tuesday for saving the lives of two fellow Army Rangers, spoke to Jon Stewart in an exclusive interview yesterday.  Petry, whose mother is Mexican American, was shot in both legs and lost a hand during a daytime mission in Afghanistan in 2006. He now wears a high-tech, metal prosthetic hand.

President Barack Obama is under heat for not attending a major Latino convention for the third year in a row, CNN.com reports.  According to the website, Obama declined to speak at the annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) this past weekend, which took place in San Antonio, Texas.  NALEO is a nonprofit organization that promotes the participation of

Less than two weeks after he made history by becoming the first Latino to win American Idol, Scotty McCreery (who's a quarter Puerto Rican) has signed a major-label deal with Mercury Nashville/19 Records/Intersco

In light of the overwhelming number of Latino contestants who made it to Hollywood on American Idol this season, we posed the following question to our readers several months ago: Is this the year a Latino takes Idol?