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UN report: Global refugee crisis has hit all-time high

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Can we achieve global gender equality by 2030?

Twenty years since the UN announced a major effort to reduce global gender inequality, women and girls today are far from getting equal treatment and participation in society, while violence against females is commonplace. Lakshmi Puri of UN Women joins…

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Read Jun 20 No clear plan yet on how to reunite parents with children
Watch Jun 20 What asylum-seekers meet when they try to cross legally
Read Jun 20 Read Trump’s full executive order on family separation
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Read Jun 18 How the toxic stress of family separation can harm a child

Nation Jun 21

Immigrant children allege abuse at Virginia detention center

By Michael Biesecker, Jake Pearson, Garance Burke, Associated Press

Police officers stand in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC, U.S., January 19, 2018. Photo by Reuters.

Nation Jun 21

Supreme Court says states can collect online sales tax

By Associated Press

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) shakes hands with US President Donald Trump (R) at the start of their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore on June 12, 2018. - Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un have become on June 12 the first sitting US and North Korean leaders to meet, shake hands and negotiate to end a decades-old nuclear stand-off. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

World Jun 21

Most Americans approve of how Trump handled North Korea, new poll finds

By Emily Swanson, Catherine Lucey, Associated Press

President Donald Trump holds a rally with supporters in Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. June 20, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Politics Jun 21

Trump’s reversal on family separation sparks concern, confusion

By Nomaan Merchant, Colleen Long, Associated Press

President Donald Trump holds a rally with supporters in Duluth, Minnesota. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Politics Jun 21

Trump supporters remain steadfast despite immigration uproar

By Angie Wang, Dave Kolpack, Associated Press

ICE officers detain a suspect as they conduct a targeted enforcement operation in Los Angeles

Nation Jun 20

More than 140 arrested at meatpacking plant in another Ohio immigration raid

By John Seewer, Associated Press

Making Sen$e Jun 20

Column: This plan to add broad non-medical benefits to Medicare Advantage is a big deal. Here’s why

By Philip Moeller

About 50,000 Syrian refugees live in the Azraq desert refugee camp in Jordan. Photo by Larisa Epatko/PBS NewsHour

World Jun 20

‘It’s been such a long time since I’ve seen a flower’: Life in a Syrian refugee camp

By Larisa Epatko

U.S. President Donald Trump displays an executive order on immigration policy after signing it in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 20, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis

Politics Jun 20

Read Trump’s full executive order on family separation

By Erica R. Hendry

Politics Jun 20

Trump meets with lawmakers after Senate blocks China ZTE deal

By Ken Thomas, Matthew Daly, Associated Press

President Donald Trump sits at this desk in the Oval Office with DHS Secretary Kristin Nielsen and Vice President Mike Pence prior to signing an executive order on immigration policy at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 20, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Milllis

Politics Jun 20

Trump signs executive order to keep families together at border, says ‘zero-tolerance’ policy will continue

By Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a Make America Great Again rally at Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., May 29, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis

Politics Jun 20

WATCH: Trump in Minnesota defends hard-line immigration policies to cheers

Science Jun 20

The science behind the summer solstice

By Stephen Schneider, The Conversation

A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 and United Airlines A320 Airbus, April 14, 2015. REUTERS/Louis Nastro

Nation Jun 20

2 airlines ask Trump administration not to put migrant children on flights

By David Koenig, Associated Press

Occupants at Casa Padre, an immigrant shelter for unaccompanied minors, in Brownsville, Texas, are seen in this photo provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on June 14, 2018. Photo by ACF/HHS/Handout via Reuters

Health Jun 20

A fifth of immigrant children detained under ‘zero tolerance’ policy are younger than 13

By Shefali Luthra, Marisa Taylor, Kaiser Health News

World Jun 20

Central bank chiefs of 4 major nations raise trade concerns

By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

Nation Jun 20

Retired archbishop removed from public ministry after abuse allegation

By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press

Politics Jun 20

WATCH: Trump says he’ll be ‘signing something’ on detained children

Politics Jun 20

Methodists, prosecutors scold Sessions over border policy

By Deb Reichmann, Associated Press

Nation Jun 20

No clear plan yet on how to reunite parents with children

By Nomaan Merchant, Colleen Long, Associated Press