Their death pose was captured in a haunting photo: A two-year-old girl tucked inside her father’s arm, both of them washed ashore on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, drowned after a failed attempt to jump the border. The image splashed across front pages a year ago this week, including this newspaper and The…
President Trump said Tuesday morning that the border wall has helped cut the flow of illegal immigration to “just about a record-breaking low,” as he prepared to jet off to Yuma, Arizona, to mark more than 200 miles of construction since the start of his administration. “We’re celebrating — we have over 200 miles of…
Asian regional superpowers India and China share a long history of mistrust and conflict along their lengthy border, and tensions flared this week in their first deadly clash in more than four decades. The world's two most populous nations and nuclear-armed neighbours have never even agreed on the length of their "Line of Actual Control"…
The stakes have never been higher in the deadliest clash in decades between troops from two nuclear powers.Soldiers from the Indian Border Security Force on Wednesday guarding a highway leading toward Leh, near the border with China.Credit...Tauseef Mustafa/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJune 17, 2020Updated 7:55 a.m. ETThe killing of 20 Indian soldiers at the hands…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…