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Tore Parker plays the flute. Sem Parker plays the trumpet. Both boys are wearing dark colored shirts. They're playing in the living room of their Carlsbad home on Dec. 12, 2025.
Alexander Nguyen
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KPBS
Arts & Culture
Carlsbad brothers share final marching band moment at this year's Rose Parade
Alexander Nguyen
Sem and Tore Parker are part of the 300-piece Bands of America National Honor Band, composed of high school students from across the country.
Marines with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, armed with rifles and chainsaws, some dressed in blaze orange helmets and pants, walk in a column along the border fence move into position along the southern border to conduct vegetation clearance operations near Yuma, Ariz., Dec. 18, 2025.
Lance Cpl. Stella Tedesco/ U.S. Marine Corps
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Digital
Military
Camp Pendleton Marines maintain presence at border under new legal designation
Andrew Dyer
A sign for the Otay Mesa Detention Center sits in front of the building Tuesday, July 7, 2020, in San Diego.
Gregory Bull
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AP
Border & Immigration
ICE arrested a surfer after he accidentally ended up on a Camp Pendleton Beach
Gustavo Solis
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