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Border & Immigration

What Trump's mass deportation looks like in San Diego

Gustavo Solis

Workplace raids, arrests in immigration court and detentions of people without criminal records show how President Donald Trump’s deportation strategy is taking shape locally.
International

Trump says 'nobody knows' what he'll do as Iran warns the U.S. not to strike

Rebecca Rosman

Franco Ordoñez

President Trump declined to say whether the U.S. would strike Iranian nuclear facilities, moments after Iran's supreme leader warned the U.S. against an attack and rejected Trump's call to surrender.
International

U.K. Parliament bans women from being prosecuted for late-term abortion

Lauren Frayer

The new law makes it illegal to investigate, arrest, prosecute or imprison any woman in England or Wales for terminating her own pregnancy — no matter what term or trimester she's in.
International

A battle of sounds stops at the inter-Korean border

Se Eun Gong

The two Koreas have engaged in psychological warfare since the 1960s, with weapons like huge billboard screens, loudspeakers installed along the border, and airdropping propaganda leaflets.
Environment

What 1,200 miles on a paddleboard taught a writer about 'blue space'

Taylor Haney

Author Dan Rubinstein paddled from Ottawa to New York City and back to understand how being near water benefits people. His book is called "Water Borne."
International

Iran 'dangerous' to peace, says GOP Rep. who backs Trump on U.S. military involvement

Steve Inskeep

H.J. Mai

As President Trump weighs U.S. military involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict, Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., says he backs any move by the president "if that is what is required to finish the job."