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U.S. Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. Thousands of Haitian migrants have been arriving to Del Rio, Texas, as authorities attempt to close the border to stop the flow of migrants. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

US launches mass expulsion of Haitian migrants from Texas

The U.S. is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and trying to block others from crossing the border from Mexico
With the Washington Monument in the background, people look at white flags that are part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s temporary art installation, “In America: Remember,” in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19.

COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did -- approximately 675,000. And like the worldwide scourge of a century ago, the coronavirus may never entirely disappear from our midst.
This combo of photos provided by FBI Denver via @FBIDenver shows missing person Gabrielle "Gabby" Petito. Petito, 22, vanished while on a cross-country trip in a converted camper van with her boyfriend. Authorities say a body discovered Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, in Wyoming, is believed to be Petito. (Courtesy of FBI Denver via AP)

Search for Gabby Petito's boyfriend turns up empty-handed

Authorities have halted their search in a wooded preserve for a Florida man following the apparent discovery of his girlfriend's body in Wyoming after she went missing on a cross country trip
President Joe Biden leaves St. Edmund Roman Catholic Church in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Saturday after attending a Mass. Biden is spending the weekend at his Rehoboth Beach home.

U.S. easing foreign travel restrictions; vaccinations required

President Joe Biden will ease foreign travel restrictions to the U.S. beginning in November, allowing foreigners into the country if they have proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test, the White House said Monday.
New Democratic Party supporters use signs as rain shields as NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh greets people during a campaign stop in Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canadians vote in pandemic election that could cost Trudeau
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gambled on an early election in a bid to win a majority of seats in Parliament
Employees pack boxes containing vials of Covishield, a version of the AstraZeneca vaccine at the Serum Institute of India in Pune, India. India, the world’s largest vaccine producer, says it will resume exports and donations of surplus coronavirus vaccines in October after halting them during a devastating surge in domestic infections in April.
India to resume exports of coronavirus vaccines in October
India, the world's largest vaccine producer, will resume exports and donations of surplus coronavirus vaccines in October after halting them during a devastating surge in domestic infections in April, the health minister said Monday
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres talks to media at a press conference, during the High-Level Ministerial Event on the Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan, at the European headquarters of the United Nation, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
The AP Interview: UN chief warns China, US to avoid Cold War
The head of the United Nations is warning of a potential new Cold War if the United States and China don't repair their relationship
A helicopter drops water on the Windy Fire burning in the Trail of 100 Giants grove of Sequoia National Forest, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
4 famous giant trees unharmed by Sequoia National Park fire
Authorities say four famous giant sequoias were not harmed by a wildfire that reached the edge of Giant Forest in California's Sequoia National Park
In this photo provided anonymously, a severely malnourished child is treated in an intensive care unit at the Ayder Referral Hospital, where medicines have almost run out and hospital staffers haven't been paid since June, in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia in Sept. 2021. For months, the United Nations has warned of famine in Tigray and now internal documents and witness accounts reveal the first starvation deaths since Ethiopia's government in June imposed what the U.N. calls "a de facto humanitarian aid blockade." (UGC via AP)
'I just cry': Dying of hunger in Ethiopia's blockaded Tigray
In parts of Ethiopia's Tigray region, people now eat only green leaves for days
Fire leaves historic church in ruins in south Chicago suburb
A weekend fire heavily damaged a historic church in Chicago's far southern suburbs that had appeared in the 2002 film 'Road to Perdition.'
The PBS Frontline's traveling augmented-reality exhibit, "Un(re)solved", rests in the special exhibit room of the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. The exhibit opened on Saturday, Aug. 28, to align with the commemoration of the death of Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. The multi-media platform examines the federal government's efforts to investigate more than 150 civil rights era cold cases on the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
'Un(re)solved' exhibit focuses on civil rights-era killings
An interactive exhibit in Mississippi is shining light on killings that took place during the civil rights era in the United States
Body of man, 20, pulled from Lake Michigan near Chicago
A 20-year-old man's body has been pulled from Lake Michigan near Chicago after a seven-hour search
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Glenbrook North’s Maddie Konopka celebrates the Spartans’ victory over Glenbrook South during Tuesday’s volleyball match in Glenview.
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Glenbrook North’s Maria Polyakov runs during “The Harvey” Invitational cross country meet at Lake Park High School’s East Campus in Roselle on Saturday.
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Katie Stack spends time in front of the portrait of her late husband Marine Lance Cpl. James B. Stack at the Portrait of a Soldier exhibit at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library Thursday September 9, 2021 in Arlington Heights. The exhibit features more than 300 hand-drawn graphite portraits of Illinois service members who gave the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries since 9/11. James grew up in Arlington Heights and was killed on November 10, 2010 during combat operations while on foot patrol.
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Naperville native the late Cmdr. Dan Shanower’s nieces, Rachel Rowe, left, of Downers Grove, and Stephanie Shanower, of Chicago, present a wreath during the Exchange Club of Naperville’s Sept. 11 remembrance at the Cmdr. Dan Shanower Memorial outside the Naperville Municipal Center.
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