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US border arrests fall, bucking usual trend of spring spike

Migrants were arrested 128,884 times in April, down from 137,480 in March and barely half a record-high of 249,737 in December, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. While still historically high, the sharp decline in arrests since late December is welcome news for President Joe Biden on a key issue that has nagged him in election-year polls.

FILE – Migrants walk past large buoys being used as a floating border barrier on the Rio Grande, Aug. 1, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. The Biden administration is preparing more changes to the nation’s asylum system meant to speed up processing and potential removal of migrants who continue to arrive at the southern border. It’s an interim step as President Joe Biden continues to mull a broader executive order to crack down on border crossings that may come later this year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

A manhunt is underway to find suspects who carried out the prison break and the inmate, a 30-year-old who had been convicted of burglary and is being investigated for a kidnapping related to death, according to the French national prosecutor in charge of organized crime, which has already opened an investigation into the incident.

Police in France search for inmate after prison convoy attack

After Roe was overturned, abortion bans took effect in most Republican-controlled states. Fourteen states now prohibit it with few exceptions, while three others bar it after about six weeks of pregnancy.

Survey: 8,000 women in states with bans get abortion pills each month

The bronze statue was cut from its base in January at a park in Wichita, Kansas. Only the statue's feet were left at McAdams Park, where about 600 children play in a youth baseball league called League 42. It is named after Robinson' s uniform number with the Brooklyn Dodgers, with whom he broke the major leagues' color barrier in 1947.

Guilty plea in case of stolen, destroyed Jackie Robinson statue

The shift comes as recent polls show that Kennedy could cut into Trump’s support just as much as he could draw votes away from Biden, with the results serving as an apparent warning for Republicans who have dismissed the independent candidate thus far, the sources say.

Trump campaign now sees Kennedy as a political ‘problem’

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Pets of the week: Sophie and Boberta

The Mendocino Coast Humane Society pets of the week are Sophie and Boberta.

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Coast Collective Exhibition has May showing at TC Space

On Friday, May 3, Coast Collective opened its month-long, curated "Descending Blue" exhibition of handcrafted furniture and smaller wood items at TC Space, the gallery owned by Meredith Frederick. She is also a collaborator of one of the exhibited pieces.

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Breakthrough therapies are saving lives. Can we afford them?

This is the future of medicine, experts agree. But the cost of this new class of medical treatment is raising alarm about availability and affordability, even as its potential grows.