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President Biden named a new Border Patrol chief on Friday as U.S. immigration policies have come under renewed scrutiny following the end of Title 42, a pandemic-era restriction that allowed the authorities to expel most migrants for more than three years.Jason Owens, who has served in the Border Patrol for more than 20 years, was most recently the leader of the Del Rio division in Texas, which handles one of the busiest areas for illegal crossings.

At least 39 people were killed on Monday night and 29 others injured when a fire broke out at a government-run migration facility in northern Mexico, near the border with the United States, the authorities said.The fire broke out at the National Migration Institute in Ciudad Juarez, a border city across from El Paso, Tex., shortly before 10 p.m. in the facility's accommodation area, according to a statement by the institute.

(CNN)The number of unlawful crossings of the US-Mexico border in January marked the lowest levels of encounters since February 2021, administration officials said Friday.In January, US Border Patrol made more than 128,000 apprehensions, down 42% from December, according to administration officials.The handling of the US-Mexico border has been a political vulnerability for President Joe Biden, who faces criticism from Republicans and potential impeachment proceedings of his Homeland Security secretary.

Three men accused of being high-ranking leaders of the transnational criminal gang MS-13 were arrested in Mexico on Wednesday and will be sent to New York to face charges, the Justice Department announced on Thursday.The three were among 13 people named as suspected gang leaders in an indictment, unsealed in federal court in Suffolk County on Thursday, that detailed MS-13's vast criminal enterprise in El Salvador, Mexico and the United States.

Much of the eastern U.S. has seen unsettlingly hazy skies this week as smoke from the more than 400 wildfires currently blazing across Canada has blown south.Wednesday was by far the worst day for wildfire smoke in the contiguous U.S. since 2006, according to researchers at Stanford University's Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab, and Tuesday claimed the number four slot.

A blue morpho butterfly sits on a leaf.A new study finds that butterflies likely originated somewhere in western North America or Central America around 100 million years ago.Kristen Grace/Florida Museum Akito Kawahara remembers being eight years old when he went on a special tour of the insect collection at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Australian park rangers believe they have stumbled upon a record-breaking giant toad deep in a rainforest of the country's northern Queensland state.(Video: Reuters)
As Kylee Gray got out of her car, she looked to the ground and gasped in disbelief.The ranger at Conway National Park in Queensland, Australia, had stopped the vehicle last week in a wild rainforest after she saw a snake slithering across the track.

Kylee Gray, a ranger with the Queensland Department of Environment and Science, holds a giant cane toad on Jan. 12 near Airlie Beach, Australia.The toad weighed 5.95 pounds.Queensland Department of Environment and Science via AP Park rangers in northern Australia found a cane toad so giant that it provoked gasps and disbelief.

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The visitors connected a series of passes in the midfield, inspiring cries from the corner of BMO Stadium occupied by their supporters."Olé!Olé!"
Carlos Vela gave chase.Kind of.Vela's faint effort to dispossess León of the ball was in vain.

Substitute Annabelle Chukwu scored twice in extra time Sunday to send Canada to next year's FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup with a 5-3 comeback win over Costa Rica in the third-place match at the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Championship.Kayla Briggs dispossessed a Costa Rican defender and Ella Ottey sent in a perfect cross for an unmarked Chukwu to knock home in the 101st minute in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Spanish-speaking dairy farm workers in Wisconsin, many of them undocumented immigrants, are not regular readers of our website.Most have never heard of ProPublica, let alone formed a trusting relationship with us.Some have low levels of literacy and poor internet connections because the farms they work on are remote.

Image A migrant camp in between the border walls that separate San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico.Credit...Mark Abramson for The New York Times SAN DIEGO At California's southern border, two parallel, towering fences stretch for miles, their reddish steel beams cutting through rugged hillsides thick with tall stocks of yellow wildflowers and marking where Mexico ends and the United States begins.

Wynn Las Vegas is pleased to announce award-winning food and beverage leader Christopher Lee as the resort's new vice president of culinary operations and restaurant development.With more than two decades of experience in large-scale food and beverage management, Lee will oversee all aspects of the culinary programs across Wynn Las Vegas and Encore.

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There are two "immersive" experiences next door to each other at Richmond's Craneway Pavilion, and content-wise, they couldn't be further apart.One promises to take visitors on an interactive journey across outer space.The other, a virtual reality installation by the Mexican film director Alejandro G. Iñárritu ( Birdman), is a journey across the U.S.-Mexico border.

LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. (AP) - The 24 bright green baby parrots began chirping and bobbing their heads the second anyone neared the large cages that have been their homes since hatching in March.The Central American natives, seized from a smuggler at Miami International Airport, are being raised by the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation - a round-the-clock effort that includes five hand feedings a day in a room filled with large cages.

After nearly 15 boisterous years of slinging tacos and tequila in River North, Mercadito is expanding its horizons with the debut of a new subterranean cocktail lounge and restaurant.The downtown stalwart has unveiled Copal, a moody and low-lit lair where chefs are highlighting a Japanese culinary influence on the cuisines of the Yucatan Peninsula.

A holiday home punctuated by arches in Tulum and a "rugged" home in Argentina are among the projects in this roundup, which centres on brutalist houses in South and Central America.Although brutalism emerged out of western Europe in the 1950s and 60s, the movement spread to countries in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s.

AUSTIN, Texas A new airline will be flying in and out of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) later this year.Copa Airlines is offering a new nonstop service to Panama City, Panama.Flights will begin on July 6.The airline is based out of Panama and will be the sixth international airline at Austin's airport.

The world's 550 million smallholder farmers are amongst its poorest inhabitants, eking out a subsistence on farms smaller than 10 hectares.With minimal financial resources, they face unending challenges from weather, disease, pests, weeds, uncertain prices, and highly seasonal growing conditions.Helping these people would seem an unlikely business prospect for a large multinational like Bayer, a global leader in life sciences.

TAIPEI, Taiwan Taiwan's former president, Ma Ying-jeou, will be setting off on Monday for the first visit to China by any sitting or former Taiwanese leader since China's civil war ended with the Nationalist government retreating to the island from the mainland in 1949.Though the 12-day visit by Mr. Ma, who was president from 2008 to 2016, is unofficial, it is likely to be watched closely at home and abroad for clues on how Beijing might seek to influence Taiwan, its democratic neighbor, ahead of a presidential election in January.

What makes a cooking utensil essential?For a home cook, that can be as subjective as the type of foods they like to prepare and eat.Sure, a couple of skillets and a pot can take care of most of the sauteing and simmering, but it's always worth taking inspiration from kitchens across the globe to finish filling out our cabinets and drawers.

At the International Women's Day Celebration of Holly Near on March 8, 2023, Near received the inaugural Freight & Salvage Lifetime Achievement Award.The venerable Freight, which was founded in 1968, has presented countless artists over the decades representing an eclectic mix of musical genres.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is set to go through a large format change.The tournament, co-hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, will feature 48 teams, 16 more than the current 32.The slots are as follows: 8 from Asia, 9 from Africa, 6 from North and Central America, 6 from South America, 1 from Oceania, 16 from Europe, and 2 playoff slots.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Pablo "Raiz" Arroyo stands painting a wall on Capp Street at the northwest corner near 18th Street, easily balancing on the deck of a skateboard that sits firmly on a crate.Arroyo dips his brush into pink acrylic paint, outlining a classic Mission Victorian house as he talks.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Read in Spanish / Leer en español Ready for the coming Christmas weekend?You probably want to spend the day with family and friends at home.But in case you're treating some visitors, or want to spend several days out, there is a lot going on in the city over the week.

Hosts kick off showpiece football tournament with a clash against South American side.Who: Qatar v Ecuador, Group A Where: Al Bayt Stadium When: Sunday, November 20, 7pm (16:00 GMT) FIFA ranking: Qatar (50), Ecuador (44) The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 will kick off on Sunday with a clash between the hosts and Ecuador.

Modern football  that is, a spectacle you feel a nagging shame from participating in, because like so many other things it seems less about joy and more about money with every passing day  began in 1974.The global sport's governing body, Fifa, had previously been a parochial little outfit, a handful of men in suits happily organising World Cups that were simply football tournaments.

Once a year, Baltimore Spirits takes an attention-grabbing approach to dispatching an abundance of Maryland apples into apple brandy.Inspired by the harvest celebration of Mexico's pechuga mezcal, raw apples are swept with smoke, then distilled with foraged pawpaw, persimmon and black walnut.For the final distillation, a 30-pound Maryland country ham is suspended in the still above the pot, for a distinct prosciutto-y salinity, explains cofounder Max Lents.

So many giants of the arts world left us in 2022  here are just a few of the actors, writers, filmmakers, artists and performers who died in the past year, listed chronologically below by the dates of their deaths.Sidney Poitier Evening Standard/Getty Images Sidney Poitier: actor, activist, and trailblazing heartthrob Poitier first became a movie star in the 1950s.

As a variety of organizations and companies are working to expand (and sometimes restore) electricity to the hundreds of millions of people who don't have it, tech companies are working to make sure that people will have internet as soon as they get devices that can access it.Microsoft and Viasat are partnering to expand internet access to 10 million people living in places like Africa and North and Central America.

A pair of work pants that sold for $114,000 at an auction this month after being pulled from an 1857 shipwreck could be an early version of Levi Strauss jeans, auction officials said, though a historian for the company said that was speculation.The Holabird Western Americana Collections auction on Dec. 3 showcased 270 items recovered from the S.S. Central America, which had been traveling from Panama to New York in September 1857 when it sank in a hurricane with 425 people aboard.

An erratic North Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end this week, with an average number of storms, a rare quiet spell in August and destructive late-season activity, including the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States in nearly two decades.The six-month season, which officially began on June 1 and ends on Wednesday, had 14 named storms, eight of which strengthened to become hurricanes.

Two-million-year-old DNA from northern Greenland has revealed that the region was once home to mastodons, lemmings and geese, offering unprecedented insights into how climate change can shape ecosystems.The breakthrough in ancient DNA analysis pushes back the DNA record by 1m years to a time when the Arctic region was 11-19C warmer than the present day.

A pair of men's jeans recovered from the wreckage of a 19th-century steamer ship fetched an eye-popping $95,000 at auction last week.Per the auction house description, it's the earliest known pair of five-button fly, heavy-duty work pants, most likely made by or for Levi Strauss & Company in the 1850s.

SOURCE  is the world's first renewable drinking water system that sources clean and safe water entirely off-grid and available almost anywhere in the world.The SOURCE® Hydropanel is a technology that incorporates multiple patented inventions alongside proprietary trade secrets, making it a one-of-a-kind renewable water technology that uses the power of the sun to extract clean, pollutant-free drinking water from the air.