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A senior Pyongyang official said US President Joe Biden’s condemnation of North Korea’s test firing of two missiles amounted to an “encroachment” and “provocation,” the state-run KCNA news agency reported Saturday. “Such remarks from the US president are an undisguised

Honduran migrant Fernando Sanchez paid a trafficker $7,000 to smuggle him to the United States with his three-year-old daughter, but they spent just days on US soil before being deported. For many undocumented migrants, particularly adult men, what they hoped

Jem Jenkins Jones was stuck at home in Wales for much of the past year amid pandemic lockdowns but managed to fulfill a promise to her 10-year-old daughter to see the northern lights from Iceland and South Africa’s game reserves

US intel agencies warn administration that pull back without a power-sharing deal could see Taliban regain control within a few years

Trump heralds new Georgia election reform bill  New York Post See Don Lemon’s reaction to Georgia’s new voting law  CNN It’s now illegal in Georgia to give food and water to voters in line  CNN Georgia’s repulsive new election law is Exhibit A

Police: 2 dead in Virginia Beach oceanfront shootings: ‘Very chaotic night’  wtvr.com Two dead, eight injured in Virginia Beach shooting incidents  CBS This Morning Two people were killed and at least eight injured in Virginia Beach shooting incidents  CNN ‘Very loved’: Community gathers

Cargo ship still stuck across Suez Canal, but Egyptian official says it will be freed over weekend  CBS News Navy sending team to Suez Canal to help dig out massive ship blocking passage  Fox News Fresh bid to dislodge stranded Suez Canal

As Biden stated, crossings often rise during the early months of the year as the weather improves. But the number of unaccompanied children arriving are considerably higher than in the recent years. (Image credit: Alyson Hurt and Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR)

Biden says “nothing has changed,” but numbers of child migrants on record pace  NPR Trump may visit US-Mexico border region ‘soon,’ former aide says  Fox News In Biden, migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border see hope, but a crisis looms  Washington Post The CCP

With ‘lightning-fast vaccination drive,’ Israel makes entry to top of tracking platform that assesses how world economies are handling pandemic