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US-Bound Migrants, Asylum-Seekers Wait Out Policy Changes

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Native American 'Aunties' Raise Funds to Feed Migrants

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‘Ghost Ships’ Become New US Marine Sanctuary

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UAW Contract with GM Expires; Strike Possible Sunday Night

Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, left front, joins the congregation of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, as they sing “We Shall Overcome” at Sunday worship on Sept. 15, 2019.
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Biden on Racism: Whites 'Can Never Fully Understand'
Biden spoke to parishioners at 16th Street Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham as they commemorated the 56th anniversary of the bombing that killed four black girls in 1963
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By Associated Press
Sun, 09/15/2019 - 20:43
FILE - The General Motors logo at the company's world headquarters in Detroit.
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Union Votes to Strike at General Motors’ US Plants
UAW spokesman Brian Rothenberg said Sunday evening that contract talks would resume at 10 a.m. Monday, but the strike was still expected to go ahead
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By Associated Press
Sun, 09/15/2019 - 20:22
FILE - U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar addresses a rally on immigration rights at the temporary installation of a replica of the Statue of Liberty at Union Station in Washington, May 16, 2019.
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US Congreswoman Ilhan Omar Responds to 9/11 Criticism
On Sunday, Omar was once again asked about her comments and those of Haros while appearing on CBS's Face the Nation
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By VOA Newsi
Sun, 09/15/2019 - 19:27
FILE - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, seen in this Jan. 2019 file photo, says he's directing state health officials to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, citing the risk of young people getting addicted to nicotine, Jan. 29, 2019.
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New York Moves to Enact Statewide Flavored E-cig Ban
The Democrat announced Sunday that the state health commissioner would be making a recommendation this week to the state Public Health and Health Planning Council
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By Associated Press
Sun, 09/15/2019 - 16:34
President Donald Trump talks with Judge Brett Kavanaugh his Supreme Court nominee, and his family in the East Room of the White House, July 9, 2018, in Washington.
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Trump Defends Supreme Court Justice Over Fresh Misconduct Claim
The latest allegation in The New York Times came after Kavanaugh denied sexual misconduct accusations leveled against him by two women during his confirmation to the Supreme Court last October
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By Agence France-Presse
Sun, 09/15/2019 - 11:48
Members of the US-led coalition forces meet with local forces from the Tal Abyad military council in the northern Syrian town of Tal Abyad, on Sept. 15, 2019
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Coalition says 'Good Progress' in North Syria Buffer Zone
Turkey and the United States last month agreed on the so-called 'security mechanism' to create a buffer between the Turkish border and Syrian areas controlled by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG)
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By Agence France-Presse
Sun, 09/15/2019 - 10:19
A Honduran woman and her 18-month-old daughter share lunch hours after being dropped off in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, under the Migrant Protection Protocols, Aug. 8, 2019.
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(Im)migration Recap, Sept. 8-13
In dozens of interviews on both sides of US-Mexico border last month, VOA met single adults, parents traveling with young children, grandparents with grandchildren, and pregnant women whose due dates are before their court hearings
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By Victoria Macchi
Sun, 09/15/2019 - 08:42