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The infant’s experience was described in a federal report on child separations as a result of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. The document was released by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform as part of a congressional hearing on the issue on Friday. The Honduran boy, identified as “Child 2” in the report, was only eight months old when he arrived in the U.S. with his father. The two had crossed the border in Texas in May 2018....

If the Democratic nominee is elected in November and his party ends up with majority control of both chambers of Congress, Goldman sees a 4 percent upward revision by 2024 to its baseline earnings forecast, which assumes no change in policy, Reuters reported. The market analysts, led by David Kostin, Goldman Sachs’ chief U.S. equity strategist, see a “a modestly positive net impact” if Democrats sweep the November elections, pushing S&P 500 earnings higher, according to Business Insider....

Charged with the five Detroit-area murders–the magistrate entered a plea of “not guilty” until Armstrong gets a lawyer–the suspect was held without bail while the Navy and the FBI try to sort out the grisly details. It could take a while. Armstrong joined the Navy in 1992 and sailed on the Nimitz until 1999, when he left the service. According to the Navy, his record contained no hint of psychological or disciplinary problems....

““The Steward of Christendom’’ is the fifth in a cycle of plays about the ““lost [or] hidden’’ people in Barry’s own family. The part of Thomas Dunne is one of those roles that come along once in a career. Dunne was Barry’s great-grandfather, the last head of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, the bastion of British rule in Ireland. As an Irish Catholic fighting for the British Empire in the years when the Irish Free State was being born in blood, Dunne was not on the honor roll of the Barry family....

MY FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS 1"The Portable Chekhov" edited by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. I can easily carry it anywhere for literary solace. 2"Austerlitz" by W. G. Sebald. The final novel of a fractured and supernal mind in search of its own history. 3"Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O’Connor. This line electrified me: “Go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog.” It made me want to write....

Lo and behold, the player has now re-signed for Somerset, where he had a successful stint previously and will be on their staff for the next two summers. He won’t be the last, either. The new quota system to be introduced to the South African domestic cricket will almost certainly mean that some of their players will see a career in the county game as the only way to advance their cricket prospects....

England’s golden generation has almost reached its oblivion. Beckham is gone, so are Joe Cole and Ferdinand. What remains is the very quickly ageing trio of Gerrard, Lampard and Cole. Brazil is still clutching onto its past. The recall of Ronaldinho and Kaka is nothing but a clear indication of distrust in the current group of players. So in summary, Brazil don’t want to trust their future, and England have no option but to trust them....

While Game of Thrones has had immense success on HBO, it has always struggled with breaking into the video game market. There have been a couple of video games that take place in Westeros, but none of them have been received as well as the shows. The series has had a pretty interesting relationship with the video game industry, and the success of House of the Dragon will most likely lead to even more attempts at capturing the feeling of this fantastical world....

The decathlon has always been an Olympic glamour event. The winner is hailed as the ““world’s greatest athlete.’’ America’s past champions were worthy of that description. Track and field was simply something they did, along with hitting a baseball and tossing a football. They didn’t train for the decathlon; they took it on. Those who met the ultimate challenge and triumphed – Jim Thorpe, Bob Mathias, Rafer Johnson, Bill Toomey, Bruce Jenner – became legends....

The UN announced the milestone on Wednesday, marking the fastest movement of refugees during this century, according to the Associated Press. The exodus of more than 2 percent of the Ukrainian population occurred less than one week after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said that over 2,000 civilians had been killed in the attack. “In just seven days we have witnessed the exodus of one million refugees from Ukraine to neighbouring countries,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said on Twitter....

Traditionally women have been far more likely to be invited onto the 75-footers that contest the Cup to pose for swimsuit issues than to actually crew. Boat captains viewed women as either too inexperienced for the technical tasks or too weak physically, compared with the strongmen who power the winches that maneuver the sails. But millionaire businessman Bill Koch, who in 1992 skippered the last America’s Cup champion to scant attention, thought that by co-opting one of the ’90s hot-button issues – gender – he could get Americans to take notice....

So if you’re wondering what it can do and how to get started doing it, this is the guide for you. Here’s everything you need to know on how to use the Artisan console in Laravel. Getting Started In your terminal, type the command below in the directory of your Laravel application. It will show the list of available commands. When using commands, you can precede them with the help option to show their available arguments and options....

Reds aplenty grow excitable at the mere mention of Januzaj, with fans asserting that the youngster will become a superstar. There is a sole objection to this assertion; one could already herald him a superstar. And he will be an icon too. Januzaj exudes that superstar quality even during these embryonic stages of his playing career. In the youngster’s first start for the club versus Sunderland back in October he bagged a brace to overturn a 1-0 deficit....

Dole left the NBC studio fuming – and his fellow Republicans puzzling over his performance. He seemed testy, the ““mean’’ hatchet man of old. He looked out of touch, quarreling with the medical consensus that nicotine is addictive. He came across as a politician in the pocket of Big Tobacco. At best, Dole appeared a throwback to an earlier era, when World War II soldiers lived for their next Lucky Strike....

The story for the film was written by Nick Schenk and Peter Billingsley, and the screenplay was written by Clay Kaytis and Nick Schenk. Kaytis has also directed the new 8th film installment of the iconic Parker Family franchise. The plot of the film takes place 30 years after the events of A Christmas Story. Ralphie and his beloved wife and children will be seen returning to their old home in Hammond, Indiana....

The CIA has generally denied involvement. But a dispute has erupted with the Justice Department over whether the agency has cooperated fully with Justice’s investigation of the BNL case. The CIA “refuses to get into a cat fight” with Justice, said spokesman Peter Earnest. “We won’t discuss our intelligence sources in public or to Congress.” CIA chief Robert Gates plans to retire in January. Earnest said the decision was not connected to BNL....

To know what Jerusalem means to the three great monotheisms is to realize that politics alone can bring only a provisional kind of peace. Jews have the oldest identification with the city–and the Bible, which mentions Jerusalem 667 times, for their witness. In the background is God’s promise of land and progeny to Abraham, His obedient servant. In the Book of Exodus, that promise takes the specific form of Canaan–the Holy Land–for the wandering tribes of Israel....

Alexander decided to do something about that. In 1979, with a $20,000 federal grant, she opened the Black Fashion Museum in the heart of Harlem. In a renovated brownstone adjacent to the fashion school she runs with her husband, Alexander, 74, puts together small exhibitions from her current collection of 5,500 outfits by black designers. Here is a copy of the purple-and-ecru lace ball dress made for Mary Todd Lincoln by Elizabeth Keckley (1820-1907)....

The initial crossing to Mars will be made for a great number of reasons, some of them solid (to see if there really are fossil bacteria there), some of them not (to look for Elvis). Most of the reasons will be scientific and practical: the more we know about the solar system’s other planets, the better we will understand Earth, and the safer we will be. It’s not heroic but it makes sense, and it is important....

The app, Slice, is looking for a team of pizza lovers to join its P.I.E. Society—which stands for Promotion of Independents Everywhere—as their state’s Resident Head of Pizza. The foodies will receive $1,300 over the course of 12 months to eat cheese and pepperoni to their heart’s content, while they’ll even get an extra $500 on top to help with travel expenses. Slice works with thousands of independent pizzerias across the country, and the head of pizza will need to bring the food, but also the venues to life....