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Facebook Tweet Email Link Rwanda has reached a deal with the Trump administration to take in migrants deported from the United States, becoming the third African nation to do so, amid complaints that governments on the continent are being pressured by the White House to receive them. Foreign US deportees, originally from other nations, had earlier been sent to South Sudan and Eswatini; a US Department of Homeland Security spokesperson described both groups as “barbaric” criminals. Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo confirmed to CNN on Tuesday that the East African nation had “agreed with the United States to accept up…

Facebook Tweet Email Link As Texas Republicans move ahead with redistricting to protect or even expand the GOP’s slim majority in the US House, Democratic-run states, led by California, are pushing forward with their own efforts to draw new maps and add Democratic seats. No Democratic states can shift the balance of power as dramatically and quickly as Texas, where Republican lawmakers can enact new maps giving them as many as five more GOP-controlled seats as soon as they establish a quorum, which state Democrats have denied them by fleeing the state. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom has urged lawmakers…

Facebook Tweet Email Link A federal prosecutor in Mexico has been killed in a drive-by shooting that has shocked the nation after video footage of the attack circulated online. The footage shows the prosecutor sitting on a road in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas state, shortly after his car has caught fire. A white vehicle then drives past and the sound of multiple gunshots rings out. The prosecutor falls to the ground and then lies motionless. It’s not clear what caused the fire. The Mexican Attorney General’s Office has identified the killed man as Ernesto Cuitláhuac Vásquez Reyna, who…

Facebook Tweet Email Link For months, Democrats have been urging their party to play more hardball in fighting back against President Donald Trump’s power grabs. Texas Democrats have now taken that cue in a big way. Dozens of their state legislators have left the state to try and prevent Republicans from enacting a brazen new gerrymander of the state’s congressional map. The GOP’s attempted mid-decade redistricting, which is historically rare, could help it flip five seats in the 2026 midterms and make it harder for Democrats to win the House. The walkout sets up a potentially protracted showdown and comes…

Facebook Tweet Email Link AP  —  Nigerian customs said they seized more than 1,600 parrots and canaries that were being transported from Lagos international airport to Kuwait without a permit, in one the biggest wildlife trafficking seizures in years. The seizure is a sign of positive change in the fight against illegal wildlife trafficking, as Nigeria is a major hub in the global trade in protected species, Mark Ofua, West Africa spokesperson for the international non-governmental organization Wild Africa, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Customs agents seized ring-necked parakeets and green and yellow fronted canaries, two protected species, at…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Air quality has taken a serious hit across the United States as a two-fold blow of wildfires in the West and in Canada have sent smoke pouring across large sections of the country — a problem that’s set to linger for days. Air quality alerts are in effect Tuesday for millions of people in 11 states in the Midwest and Northeast due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. Tuesday’s smoke concentration isn’t quite as intense as it was Monday in these areas but remains a significant health concern, especially for people with breathing issues, children and the…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Hong Kong  —  Zane Li was nine years old when he got a baby sister – and her arrival plunged the family in a small city in eastern China into crippling debt. Under China’s stringent one-child policy at the time, Li’s parents were fined 100,000 yuan (about $13,900) for having a second child – nearly three times their annual income from selling fish at the local market. “We were barely able to survive,” Li recalled. The then third grader was forced to grow up overnight, taking on most of the housework and spending school holidays helping…

Facebook Tweet Email Link A former Miami Heat security officer has been charged with allegedly stealing and selling millions of dollars worth of team memorabilia, federal officials announced Tuesday. Marcos Thomas Perez worked with the NBA team for five years from 2016 to 2021 and later with the league from 2022 to 2025. During his time with Miami, Perez was a part of the security detail team on game days at the now-named Kaseya Center, home of the Heat, a news release from the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida states. Perez accessed a secured equipment room…

Facebook Tweet Email Link As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again than it has been in decades, experts and survivors are warning. At the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Wednesday morning, dignitaries and the dwindling number of survivors were set to commemorate the moment a US B-29 bomber dropped the atomic weapon known as “Little Boy” on August 6, 1945. Three days later the nearby city of Nagasaki was destroyed…

Facebook Tweet Email Link When Paola Clouatre arrived home, her young son Noah glanced at her sideways. He covered his face, turned around, looked back again. “It was as if he couldn’t believe that the person there was me, his mom,” Clouatre says, as she recalls the moment she was reunited with her family, two months after being detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while breastfeeding her three-month-old baby. The first thing she did when Noah recognized her was hug him. “I said to him: ‘It’s Mom. Mom is home again with you.’” The second thing she did…