The Obama family suffered a lost today. Barack Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, passed away at age 61. According to sources, she was being treated for cancer…

An immigration judge has granted asylum to President Obama’s aunt and will allow her to stay in the United States. She could become a citizen in about six years. Zeituni Onyango, 57, is the half-sister of Obama’s late father and is from Kenya.

A federal immigration judge will decide today whether President Obama’s aunt, who has been in the United States illegally for years, will be allowed to stay. Zeituni Onyango, 57, applied for political asylum in 2002, citing violence in her native Kenya.