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People wait in line outside the San Ysidro Port of Entry, between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, Calif., in October.

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Politics & Policy

Federal court blocks Trump administration’s asylum ban

The court said Trump's asylum ban violates existing law and would cause irreparable harm to immigrants.

8 years ago

A migrant child sits outside a tent, taking shelter at the Jesus Martinez stadium in Mexico City, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Humanitarian aid converged around the stadium in Mexico City where thousands of Central American migrants winding their way toward the United States were resting Tuesday after an arduous trek that has taken them through three countries in three weeks. (Marco Ugarte/AP Photo)

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Quaker relief worker recounts helping migrants in caravan get through Mexico

A member of the Philadelphia-based American Friends Service Committee recounts her experiences doing relief work with the caravan of migrants passing through Mexico.

8 years ago

A man holds a poster showing images of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman and of journalist writer Jamal Khashoggi, describing the prince as

Politics & Policy

Trump on Khashoggi death tape: ‘No reason for me to hear it’

''I know everything that went on in the tape without having to hear it."

8 years ago

Demonstrators hold placards in London on Friday. (Alastair Grant/AP)

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Here’s what you need to know about Brexit after a tumultuous week in the U.K.

The tentative deal triggered the resignation of two of May’s cabinet secretaries.

8 years ago

Alyssa Edling, center, and Thomas Malia, second from right, both with PEN America, join others as they hold signs of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, during a news conference about his disappearance in Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, in front of The Washington Post in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Politics & Policy

Official: U.S. intel says prince ordered Khashoggi killing

The Saudi government has denied the claim.

8 years ago

In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, a weight is set up at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in Sevres, near Paris. The golf ball-sized metal cylinder at the heart of the world's system for measuring mass is heading into retirement. Gathering this week in Versailles, west of Paris, governments on Friday Nov. 16, 2018, are expected to approve a plan to instead use a scientific formula to define the exact weight of a kilo. (Christophe Ena/AP Photo)

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Take a weight off: Tears, joy as kilo gets historic update

"We put in place a system that doesn't depend on something that is 140 years old."

8 years ago

Khieu Samphan, (left), former Khmer Rouge head of state, stands at the dock in a court room during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Friday. (Nhet Sok/AP/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)

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Courts & Law

Verdict on Khmer Rouge leaders is first to officially acknowledge regime’s genocide

The last two surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s were found guilty Friday by an international tribunal.

8 years ago

The European Union's highest court has ruled that a food's taste can't be copyrighted. Here, people shop for cheese in Gouda, Netherlands, in 2015. (Tim Graham/Getty Images)

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Courts & Law

There’s no copyrighting taste, rules EU court in Dutch cheese case

8 years ago

The soldiers of the 28th Infantry Division Headquarters stand at attention at a farewell ceremony on January 13, 2018. (Rachel McDevitt/WITF)

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Pa. soldiers returning from Middle East deployment

Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers deployed to the Middle East may be home in time for Thanksgiving.

8 years ago

Central American migrants rest outside a soccer stadium after arriving in Queretaro, Mexico, as they resume their journey north, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. Thousands of Central American migrants were back on the move toward the U.S. border Saturday, after dedicated Mexico City metro trains whisked them to the outskirts of the capital and drivers began offering rides north. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Courts & Law

Migrant caravan heads to central Mexican city of Irapuato

The migrants appear to be on a path to Tijuana across the border from San Diego, which is still some 1,600 miles away.

8 years ago

Military officer Garcia plays the original Armistice bugle from 1918 under the Arc de Triomphe Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 in Paris. More than 60 heads of state and government are in France for the Armistice ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, exactly a century after the armistice. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool)

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‘Am I dreaming?’ Letter excerpts from WWI’s last day

A hundred years later, their words can still pierce hearts.

8 years ago

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan says audio recordings of Jamal Khashoggi's murder have been released to the U.S. Khashoggi was a journalist and critic of Saudi Arabia's government. (Burhan Ozbilici/AP)

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Turkey says recordings of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder have been given to the U.S.

According to Turkish officials, the recordings prove the recordings prove that Khashoggi's murder was premeditated.

8 years ago

Part of the Pardis petrochemical complex facilities in Assaluyeh, on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, Iran. The United States has reimposed sanctions targeting Iran's economy. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

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Iran and trading partners will find ways to skirt sanctions, analysts say

The Trump administration hopes the sweeping sanctions it has imposed on Iran's oil, shipping and banking industries will cripple its economy and force it to negotiate.

8 years ago