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Many of the migrants said they had spent their life savings and gone into debt to pay coyotes — human smugglers — who had falsely promised them that the border was open after Biden’s election. Deported migrants arrive at an office in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, March 13, 2021. The migrants’ hopes have been drummed up by human smugglers who promise that President Joe Biden’s administration will welcome them. Instead, the United States is expelling them back to Mexico, where they wait along with tens of thousands of others hoping to cross. The pressure, and desperation, is quickly building among families stuck in Mexico, as shelters and officials struggle to help them. In the United States, federal authorities are scrambling to manage a sharp increase in children who are crossing the border on their own and then being held in detention facilities, often longer than permitted by law. And the twinned crises on both sides of the border show no sign of abating. Near the crossing with El Paso, Tex...

The fresh wave of sanctions come as Syria marks 10 years of brutal civil war. The sanctions target those accused of "repressing the Syrian people." The UK imposed fresh sanctions on six allies of Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday, including his foreign minister, the UK foreign office said. “The Assad regime has subjected the Syrian people to a decade of brutality for the temerity of demanding peaceful reform,” British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said. “We are holding six more individuals from the regime to account for their wholesale assault on the very citizens they should be protecting,” Raab added. A tweet from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office showed a video of the destruction and suffering from the decade of war in Syria. “Syrians have suffered horrific violence and conflict for 10 years. The UK has provided vital aid to those in need from the start,” the tweet said. “We continue to push for an end to the conflict,” it added. What do the sanc...

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the Chinese Embassy had contacted authorities in Myanmar and urged that police be deployed to protect the Chinese companies and personnel. Black smoke billows from the industrial zone of Hlaing Thar Yar township in Yangon, Myanmar Sunday, March 14, 2021. Attacks on Chinese-run factories in Myanmar’s biggest city drew demands Monday from Beijing for protection for their property and employees, while many in Myanmar expressed outrage over China’s apparent lack of concern for those killed in protests against last month’s military coup. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the Chinese Embassy had contacted authorities in Myanmar and urged that police be deployed to protect the Chinese companies and personnel. Police and firefighters were sent to protect the factories, which are scattered across several industrial zones in Yangon, spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters in Beijing. He said China was closely watching and “is very concerned...

Haaland in 2018 became one of the first two Native American women elected to the House. But her new position is particularly redolent of history because the department she now leads has spent much of its history abusing or neglecting America’s Indigenous people. FILE -- Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), the Biden administration's nominee for Interior secretary, speaks in Wilmington, Del., on Dec. 19, 2020.  Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico made history Monday when the Senate confirmed her as President Joe Biden’s secretary of the Interior, making her the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency. Haaland in 2018 became one of the first two Native American women elected to the House. But her new position is particularly redolent of history because the department she now leads has spent much of its history abusing or neglecting America’s Indigenous people. Beyond the Interior Department’s responsibility for the well-being of the nation’s 1.9 million Native people, it oversees about 500 m...

  Many predict Chadwick Boseman will also win for a performance that’s been called the best of his life. March 15, 2021 8:51:21 pm Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Half a year after his death, Chadwick Boseman was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award on Monday for his final performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The nomination for best actor was widely expected but still historic. Boseman is the first Black performer ever nominated posthumously for an Oscar. He was nominated alongside Steven Yeun (Minari), Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), Anthony Hopkins (The Father) and Gary Oldman (Mank). Only seven actors have previously been nominated after their death: Jeanne Eagels, James Dean, Spencer Tracy, Peter Finch, Ralph Richardson, Massimo Troisi and Heath Ledger. Two ultimately won: Finch for his performance in 1976′s Network and Ledger for 2008′s The Dark Knight. Many predict Boseman will also win for a performance that’s been called the best of his life. Last month...