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A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent escorts an immigrant suspected of crossing into the United States illegally along the Rio Grande near Granjeno, Texas.

National

May Marks Another Increase In Border Arrests Despite Trump Crackdown

8:54pm June 06, 2018

by Richard Gonzales

For the third consecutive month, border arrests top 50,000 even as the administration has announced a zero tolerance policy and sent the National Guard to the southern border.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un views the Hwasong-15 missile in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency. The missile is believed to be capable of reaching the continental United States.

'Complete, Verifiable, Irreversible' A Tough Goal For North Korea Summit

8:43pm June 06, 2018

by David Welna

The Trump administration's terms for North Korea's denuclearization verge on the impossible, some former negotiators say: "There's no way of doing something that's irreversible, that I know of."

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TV personality Kim Kardashian West went to the White House on May 30 to lobby for the release of Alice Marie Johnson.

Woman Released After Trump Commutes Her Life Sentence For Nonviolent Drug Offense

7:54pm June 06, 2018

by Ayesha Rascoe

Alice Marie Johnson was released hours after the president issued the order. She was in prison for more than 20 years for a first-time drug conviction. Kim Kardashian West had pushed for her release.

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Fort Hamilton is one of the oldest military bases in the country and the only active U.S. military base in New York City.

National

'From Delivery To Detention': ICE Detains Pizza Guy At Army Base In Brooklyn

6:42pm June 06, 2018

by Joel Rose

Pablo Villavicencio, an Ecuadorean immigrant, was attempting to make a delivery at Fort Hamilton when he was detained and handed over to immigration authorities.

Mick Mulvaney speaks during a November news conference at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. On Wednesday, he moved to effectively disband the agency's Consumer Advisory Council.

Politics & Government

Mick Mulvaney Effectively Fires CFPB Advisory Council

6:29pm June 06, 2018

The CFPB's interim chief is moving to disband a board designed to help consumer groups work with the agency to identify problems facing Americans who are being unfairly treated by financial firms.

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Chairs the Trump Administration's School Safety Commission. She is seen here during a House Education and the Workforce Committee meeting last month.

National

Federal School Safety Commission Holds First Public Session. DeVos Wasn't There

6:25pm June 06, 2018

by Brakkton Booker

The Federal Commission on School Safety held its first public listening session Wednesday. Secretary DeVos, the chair, as well as the three other cabinet secretaries on the commission, did not attend.

A scientist from the Nadiya Clinic in Kiev, Ukraine inserts a needle into a fertilized egg to extract the DNA of a man and woman trying to have a baby. The clinic is combining the DNA from three different people to create babies for women who are infertil

Clinic Claims Success In Making Babies With 3 Parents' DNA

5:57pm June 06, 2018

by Rob Stein

A clinic in Kiev, Ukraine, stirs controversy by making babies with DNA from three different people to help women who are infertile bear children. It's the only clinic known to be doing this right now.

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World News

Decades After 'Massive Injustice' Repealed, Scotland Will Offer Pardons To Gay Men

5:53pm June 06, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The bill automatically pardons men convicted under Scotland's longtime ban on same-sex relations, which wasn't repealed until 1980. Lawmakers vowed to send a "message that these laws were unjust."

Tule looks at the papers she helped Cathy Umba (left) obtain, a protective order against her abusive former husband. Umba carries the papers with her at all times.

World News

For Survivors Of Domestic Abuse In Papua New Guinea, Volunteers Offer Safe Havens

5:35pm June 06, 2018

by Durrie Bouscaren

Two out of three women in Papua New Guinea are abused by intimate partners, according to aid groups and the World Health Organization. Volunteers called "human rights defenders" have helped hundreds.

Bermuda's Supreme Court voted in favor of same-sex marriage on Wednesday, overturning part of a law that said same-sex couples could only enter into domestic partnerships.

World News

Bermuda's Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Same-Sex Marriage — Again

5:14pm June 06, 2018

by Amy Held

Bermuda had passed a law forbidding same-sex marriage after a previous Supreme Court ruling allowing it. The government could appeal Wednesday's decision.