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After a series of political battles, the first completed section of President Donald Trump’s border wall has been unveiled. But people are still arguing over whether it’s a wall or a fence. The two-and-a-half-mile-long, 30-foot-tall barrier was built over eight months and unveiled by US Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen at a ceremony in […]
Gary Williams/Getty Images US Sen. Ted Cruz suggested mobilizing the National Guard to the southern border where thousands of Central American migrants are making their way toward the US. Cruz suggested sending the National Guard or amassing more Border Patrol agents, citing former presidents. A United Nations spokesman said more than 7,000 migrants have joined the caravan. Trump […]
Associated Press/Moises Castillo The migrant caravan that trekked through the Northern Triangle and reached Mexico this weekend has swelled to an estimated 7,000 people, and is largely heading to the United States. President Donald Trump has raged against the caravan, pinning blame in turn on Central American governments, US asylum laws, and congressional Democrats. Despite […]
Valentina Koonooka and her four daughters waited four days in an airport terminal in Nome, Alaska to take a less-than-two-hour flight across the Bering Sea to visit family in Russia. For generations, residents in the area routinely crossed from island to island, moving freely across the US-Russia border. However, in 1948 the border officially closed. […]
Thousands of migrants have arrived at the Mexico-Guatemala border, with some climbing over the fence separating the two countries. US President Donald Trump has threatened to close the US-Mexico border and call in the military. More than 3,000 migrants are demanding they be let into Mexico, and ultimately through to the US, with many heard […]
Enlarge / Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple Inc., speaks about Face ID for the iPhone X during an event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, on Sept. 12, 2017. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Apple’s Touch ID is already on its way out. Just five years […]
A military court has extended the detention of two Israeli soldiers accused of forcibly stripping and sexually harassing Palestinian women, and of stealing money, at a checkpoint in the West Bank. One combat soldier and one security observer from the Military Police’s Border Crossings Unit are accused of violating orders and sexually harassing women during […]
(Welcome to The Fantastic Fest Diaries, where we will be chronicling every single movie we see at the United States’ largest genre film festival.) Welcome to Fantastic Fest, day two. In this diary entry: a deranged stop-motion allegory, an unpredictable thriller from the writer of Let the Right One In, a new horror movie from The […]
Webb County Sheriff’s Office via Associated Press The woman who escaped a Border Patrol agent and accused serial killer has spoken to police and relatives about how she survived the ordeal. Juan David Ortiz, a supervisory Border Patrol agent, was arrested in Texas on September 15 and quickly confessed to murdering four women and abducting […]
Getty Images/Scott Eisen A Border Patrol agent in Texas was arrested Saturday on suspicion of killing four women and abducting a fifth, who managed to escape. Juan David Ortiz fled from state troopers after the fifth woman escaped, and he was fount hiding in the parking lot of a hotel in Laredo, Texas. Investigators describe […]
