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Guests attend a Refugees Welcome dinner at Lapis restaurant in Washington, D.C. The goals of the evening: to bring locals together with refugees in their community and to break barriers by breaking bread.

These Dinner Parties Serve Up A Simple Message: Refugees Welcome

Across the U.S., locals are hosting meals designed to help the community meet the refugees who live among them as neighbors, and to break barriers by breaking bread together.

San Diego Nonprofit Helps Children Orphaned By Domestic Violence

When a child loses a parent in a domestic-violence related death and the other parent ends up behind bars—Kathy’s Legacy Foundation steps in.

Palestinians wave goodbye to people aboard a bus before it leaves to cross into Egypt. As conditions at home worsen, thousands of Gazans have crossed the Egyptian border since May 2018, seeking a better life.

'I Want To Get The Hell Out Of Here': Thousands Of Palestinians Are Leaving Gaza

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have left Gaza in the past year, as conditions there have worsened.

A King County, Wash., Superior Court judge ruled Friday that the truck a Seattle man was living in is his home, and thus can't be impounded. Here, a man hauls garbage at a temporary parking area for people living in their vehicles in Seattle in 2016.

A Homeless Man's Truck Is His Home, Judge Rules In Seattle

That means the city can't impound it, and the judge ordered that towing fees be refunded. A count last year found that more than 2,000 people who were homeless in Seattle were living in vehicles.

The show celebrates the Gothic cathedral's role in French history as well as the end of the First World War.

Spectacular Light Show At Notre Dame Cathedral Commemorates World War I

A stunning display of color and technology illuminates the medieval cathedral's facade and tells a story about history, war and survival.

In an Oct. 2012 file photo, voters cast their votes through absentee ballots for the November election in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Ranked-choice voting will be put to its biggest test when Maine uses the system in a statewide primary election on June 12, the first time a U.S. state has adopted the voting method.

Maine Voters To Decide On Whether They'll Rank Candidates In Future Elections

In asking voters to rank candidates in order of preference, Maine becomes the first U.S. state to adopt a system also used in Australia, Ireland, several other countries, and a handful of U.S. cities.

The collapsed 35W bridge in Minneapolis seen on August 2, 2007.

10 Years After Bridge Collapse, America Is Still Crumbling

There have been some improvements, but there are still tens of thousands of bridges nationwide that need to be fixed or replaced. Federal funding for such needs has remained flat.

Stretches of secondary fencing are topped with spirals of concertina wire along the U.S.-Mexico border near the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego on Aug. 16, 2017.

California To Join Guard Border Mission, But With Conditions

California Gov. Jerry Brown accepted President Donald Trump's call to send the National Guard to the Mexican border, but rejected the White House's portrait of a burgeoning border crisis and insisted that his troops will have nothing to do with immigration enforcement.

Reflecting on his decision to go public with classified information, Edward Snowden says, "The likeliest outcome for me, hands down, was that I'd spend the rest of my life in an orange jumpsuit, but that was a risk that I had to take."

Edward Snowden Speaks Out: 'I Haven't And I Won't' Cooperate With Russia

In 2013, Snowden showed journalists thousands of top-secret documents about U.S. intelligence agencies' surveillance efforts. He's been living in Russia ever since. His new book is Permanent Record.

McCain became known for his openness with voters and the press, and he thrived in town hall settings, such as this one in New Hampshire in 2008.

McCain And Trump: How 2 Divergent Leaders Collided Over And Over

In the final years of his life, McCain fully personified his "maverick" nickname by becoming one of the leading GOP voices against Donald Trump.

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