A Canadian police officer offers a hand to a migrant crossing the U.S.-Canada border near Champlain, N.Y., on Wednesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are reporting surges in illegal crossings in Canada in recent months.
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A rural road in northern New York has become a magnet for migrants who no longer want to stay in the U.S. Growing numbers are stepping into Canada, knowing Mounties immediately will arrest them.
On his latest album as Strand of Oaks, Timothy Showalter embraces the highest and lowest points of his life with equal joy.
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A Canadian police officer offers a hand to a migrant crossing the U.S.-Canada border near Champlain, N.Y., on Wednesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are reporting surges in illegal crossings in Canada in recent months.
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Roy Ebihara (far left) with his siblings, Mary, Kathy and Bill, on Easter 1941 in Clovis, N.M. In 2014, Roy and his family received a formal public apology from the mayor of Clovis for the mistreatment they endured there.
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Rep. William "Bill" Huizenga, R-Mich., says House Republicans "know the direction we want to go and sort of the destination" with replacing Obamacare.
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William Ruckelshaus is sworn in as administrator of the new Environmental Protection Agency as President Richard Nixon looks on at the White House on Dec. 4, 1970.
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