Former President Joe Biden made a gaffe in saying "United States of Amerigotit" during an LGBTQ+ conference speech in which he urged leaders to continue fighting for equality.

The Trump administration blames “collateral arrests” — picking up people who weren’t the target of an operation — on sanctuary policies. Todd M. Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has said they wouldn’t feel compelled to be so aggressive if localities willingly turned over “violent criminal aliens.”

The release of migrants to shelters is common in El Paso, but advocates fear that the government may be dumping large numbers of immigrants on the streets to relieve overcrowding in the wake of the deaths of two children who were in Border Patrol custody.

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A United Nations human rights official is urging the United States to lift its sanctions on Cuba, saying they are impacting the island’s entire population, hitting sectors including health care, nutrition and education.

The headline of the Monday, Dec. 8, 1941, edition of The Minot Daily News, the day following the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, announced Congress had promptly declared war on Japan. Eighty-four years ago on Sunday,