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It’s Monday, April 1, 2019. Let’s start here. 1. ‘I’ll just close the border’ Donald Trump, the president of the United States of America, said on Friday that if Mexico didn’t stop “ALL illegal immigration” he would shut down the border, a view echoed Sunday on “This Week” by Mick […]

A comedian with no political experience, best known for playing a man who unexpectedly becomes president on TV, has taken a commanding lead in the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election, according to exit polls and early vote counts. With more than 60% of votes counted on Monday, the actor […]

A storm system moving from Colorado to New York over the weekend delivered a variety of weather, including a tornado in Colorado, with heavy rain, flooding and snow prevalent elsewhere. Parts of western New York and Pennsylvania saw as much as 5 inches of snow overnight with the cold air […]

House Democrats want to hold the Justice Department and Attorney General William Barr to a stated deadline of Tuesday for releasing special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report, despite Barr’s intentions to deliver the nearly 400-page report in the coming weeks. “That deadline still stands,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, […]

Some of hip-hop’s biggest and brightest stars took to social media on Sunday to mourn the death of Nipsey Hussle, the Grammy-nominated rapper earlier shot and killed in South Los Angeles, city officials said. Hussle, born Ermias Asghedom, was shot multiple times outside his clothing store in LA’s Hyde Park […]

Japan’s cabinet has selected the nation’s 248th era name, part of a tradition dating back to the 7th century: “Reiwa.” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced the name on Monday. Reiwa is believed to be derived from Manyoshu, the oldest existing anthology of Japanese poetry at more than 1,200 years […]

A two-horse spill in the $100,000 San Simeon Stakes at Santa Anita on Sunday led to the 23rd equine fatality at the Southern California track in just over three months. Arms Runner injured his right front leg and fell in the Grade 3 race on turf, two days after Santa […]

U.S. immigration officials say they will close a holding area under a bridge connecting El Paso, Texas, with Juarez, Mexico, that is just a short distance from where a senior official declared an “operational crisis” at the border last week. In a statement Sunday, Customs and Border Protection says that […]

Japan’s government is holding top-secret meetings to decide a new era name for soon-to-be-emperor Naruhito, the crown prince who will succeed the Chrysanthemum throne from his father May 1. Emperor Akihito is stepping down, in the first abdication in 200 years, on April 30, with his era of “Heisei” coming […]

Mexican immigration officials plan to issue humanitarian visas on a “limited basis” starting Monday to some of the roughly 2,500 Central American and Caribbean migrants gathered in the southern state of Chiapas. The National Migration Institute said Sunday it will give priority to women, children and those over the age […]