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A federal judge in California has blocked Donald Trump from building sections of his long-sought border wall with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency. On Friday, the US district judge Haywood Gilliam Jr put an immediate halt to the administration’s efforts to redirect military-designated funds to build …

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE May 25, 2019, 1:30 AM UTC By Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. — John Pinto, a Navajo Code Talker in World War II who became one of the nation’s longest …

Image copyright Liat Malka Image caption Shira and Liat Liat Malka longed to have children but hadn’t yet met the right person with whom to start a family. Then she became involved in an unusual plan – to help fulfil a stranger’s dying wish of fathering a child. In 2013, …

President Donald Trump has asked the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to resign, leaving yet another vacancy within the Department of Homeland Security. READ MORE: ‘Our country is full’: Trump says immigration system overwhelmed Lee Francis Cissna told staff on Friday that his last day would be June …

Donald Trump has said he wants Australia’s role in setting off the FBI inquiry into links between Russia and his election campaign examined by the US attorney general, William Barr. It is a potentially explosive development for the historically solid US-Australian alliance and the first time Trump has publicly named …

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE May 24, 2019, 10:38 PM UTC By Julia Ainsley WASHINGTON — The director of the agency overseeing legal entry into the United States, including through green cards and asylum, was …

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWe Are Middlesbrough: Pregnant teenagers tell their story Middlesbrough has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in England and Wales. But one 16-year-old from the town says getting pregnant saved her life. Robyn used to “get mortal” (drunk) and “end up at …

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, at about six weeks of pregnancy. READ MORE: Federal lawsuit filed to challenge Alabama abortion ban “Here we go again,” U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves wrote in his order. …

Bali’s airport has cancelled flights following an eruption of the Mount Agung volcano, which spread ash over the south of the Indonesian island. The national disaster agency said Friday night’s eruption lasted four minutes and 30 seconds, spreading lava and incandescent rocks about 3km from the crater. Nine villages experienced …

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE May 24, 2019, 4:48 PM UTC / Updated May 25, 2019, 12:24 AM UTC By Nancy Ing and Margot Haddad PARIS — An explosion Friday in the center of the French city …