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Monday: Examining our low voter turnout, immigrant comedians, and awaiting a corpse flower.

The president said such immigrants should be sent back immediately without an appearance before a judge.

The operator of the center said it was not allowed to restrain children if they want to leave, raising questions about who is responsible for their safety.

A Brazilian migrant, separated from her son at the United States border, has been released, but has struggled with bureaucratic hurdles to recovering her 9-year-old son.

Syrian officials say there wasn’t a chemical attack. But what really took place in the town of Douma in April? We analyzed 67 videos to reconstruct how at least 34 people died in one apartment building.

The vote was the first to be held since Turkey narrowly approved a referendum last year to give the president, once a largely ceremonial role, sweeping executive authority.

“You think we’re rallying now? You ain’t seen nothing yet,” Waters vowed at a Los Angeles rally Saturday.

Casa Padre has become an epicenter of controversy amid the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.

Is the Trump critic finally going to put his money where his mouth is?

“I lost everything, and I regretted it before I lost everything."

An attack on women's health care earlier this month is one example of an outrage that barely gets noticed.

Cedella Roman, 19, was arrested on May 21 in Blaine, Washington -- half-a-mile from the border.

The refusal came after Nicole Arteaga's doctor told her that her unborn baby no longer had a heartbeat.

The country's electoral board said Tayyip Erdogan had an absolute majority on Sunday.

The head of Turkey's Supreme Election Board has declared Recep Tayyip Erdogan the winner in the nation's presidential election. CNN's Sam Kiley reports on the controversial vote.

A search is underway to rescue 12 teenage soccer players and their coach who are thought to be trapped in a cave in northern Thailand.

What began as a new Trump administration policy, enacted in mid-April, has turned to a crisis that resulted in the separation of immigrant children from their parents. CNN's Victor Blackwell discusses the decisions that lead to the policy.

When a transgender woman got up to use the woman's bathroom at a restaurant, she said she was asked to show her ID.

A group in China has been conducting cyber espionage campaigns against companies in the U.S. and Southeast Asia.

Can a few strands of facial hair help snap a player’s cold streak?

The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local): 12:10 p.m. Spanish authorities say 210 people have been rescued in the Strait of Gibraltar, as more migrants take advantage of fair weather in the western Mediterranean to make the risky crossing by boat from North Africa to Spain.

The rival Koreas are discussing the possible relocation of North Korea's long-range artillery guns away from the tense Korean border, South Korea's prime minister said Monday, as the countries forge ahead with steps to lower tensions and extend a recent detente.

Officials say about 30 people were hospitalized after workers at a Massachusetts company began feeling ill, triggering a hazmat response to the building.

NASCAR driver Hailie Deegan may have had the busiest weekend of her young career so far.

The New York Police Department on Monday identified one of five suspects in the brutal killing of a 15-year-old boy who was pulled out of a store and stabbed several times by a group of men with long knives.

Multiple attempts to locate 12 boys and their soccer coach missing in a flooded cave complex in northern Thailand for nearly two days have failed, but officials said Monday they believe they're still alive.

Voters to decide if former Rep. Michael Grimm of New York can run for his old seat after prison and whether Mitt Romney can run for Senate. Primaries are happening Tuesday in Colorado, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma and Utah, and there are runoff elections in South Carolina.        

"I’m not saying it’s not happening. I’m saying that I haven’t seen it," said Ofelia Calderon, a Virginia-based civil rights attorney in Port Isabel, Texas.        

Authorities have identified a man shot dead early Friday while camping with his two young daughters near Calabasas, California.        

Addressing runoff from the 9,000 bourbon barrels affected in the Barton 1792 distillery warehouse collapse is "critical," a fire chief said.        

A proposal to split California into three states will appear on the November ballot. But supporters will need to convince voters in the Imperial and Coachella valleys that the proposal is more than an out-there idea from an eccentric billionaire.        

The Bay Area has it all in terms of high property taxes, health-care costs and living expenses. The median list price of a home in San Francisco is $1.19 million. The most affordable locale is Fort Wayne, Indiana.        

World Cup, N.C.'s transgender battle, a huge cruise ship out of Miami and more things you need to know Monday.        

President Donald Trump pressed his case for cracking down on undocumented immigrants on Sunday, tweeting that "zero tolerance" is fair and gives preference to those who "legally wait their turn." He tweeted: "We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country."        

On Iran, North Korea and other major issues, the defense secretary has been out of the loop

"I've never seen a volume of people who are punitively separated from their children for no reason," said a civil rights attorney in Texas.

Emboldened by President Donald Trump, progressives hope to defeat the conservative Democratic machine in Rhode Island. It won't be easy.

Twenty-four teams are still alive with a chance of making it into the World Cup knockout rounds and lifting the trophy in Moscow on July 15.

Having broken Facebook's record, the organizers set a new goal — $25 million.

A $130,000 payment from Michael Cohen as part of a non-disclosure agreement related to an alleged affair with President Donald Trump is part of the inquiry.

"When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came," the president wrote.

Meek Mill transformed the BET Awards stage into a street corner, featuring hustlers, police officers and the killing of a black child.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned to Turkey’s capital city to celebrate his twin victory in presidential and parliamentary elections as the opposition conceded defeat.

President Trump, already embroiled in a trade battle with China, plans to ratchet commercial tensions higher by barring many Chinese firms from investing in U.S. technology and by blocking more technology exports to Beijing.

EU leaders failed to bridge disagreements over the bloc’s politically toxic migration issue, a long-unresolved conundrum now threatening to topple the EU’s most powerful leader, Germany’s Angela Merkel.

The lifting of the female driving ban marked an extraordinary moment for this kingdom and showed how social overhauls are seeping into even the most conservative pockets here as Saudi women press for change.

The Syrian regime’s main military ally, Russia, carried out airstrikes Sunday in the country’s southwest, defying a cease-fire pact with the U.S. and Jordan.

Kim Jong-pil, the founder of South Korea’s spy agency whose political skills helped him also serve twice as prime minister, first under his dictator boss and later under a man his agency kidnapped, has died. He was 92.

Tens of thousands have been trying to cross the southern border into the U.S. to seek asylum. Most won’t win, according to U.S. government data.

Zimbabwe’s president dodged an apparent assassination attempt ahead of a historic election, and a blast at a rally attended by Ethiopia’s new leader killed one person, rattling politics in two African nations in the midst of major transitions.

There were 2,053 separated minors in the government’s care as of June 20.

A human rights leader says the U.S. needs to address trauma on southern border.

Trump calls American immigration system a "mockery."

The third person on board, the pilot, appears to have survived.

Officers in Minneapolis said they fired on the suspect after a foot chase.

Stormy Daniels' lawyer says the porn actress' meeting with federal prosecutors in New York who are investigating President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer has been cancelled

Mattis says he wants to focus on larger, more strategic security issues when he meets with Chinese officials this week

The tour will include Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Anyone who has ever tried to make plans with a group of girlfriends is intimately familiar with the unique blend of excitement and mild dread that accompanies receiving a “hey ladies” email. If the email is in reference to an upcoming wedding, multiply those feelings by one million. These messages always start off innocently enough […]

A man was shot in the back in a TCHC building downtown early Monday, capping a violent weekend in the city. The man was found in the third-floor hallway of a building on Sherboune St. north of Dundas St. E. around 2:30 a.m. His slaying came after four other people were murdered over the weekend. […]

Dear Amy: Several weeks ago, my longtime next-door neighbour and friend, “Meredith,” called me with a dilemma. One of her former students was on the run from ICE. This student had fled his apartment without his belongings, including an address book containing Meredith’s address, making it unsafe for him to take refuge with her. She […]

MOSCOW — I’ve been to the UK, Ireland, all over France and Italy. Have I mentioned Iceland is lovely? But Eastern Europe just feels different — less warm, less welcoming, seemingly bothered at times. That’s not to say I haven’t interacted with some lovely people. The young folks here are eager and open to help […]

MOSCOW — Some athletes want it to happen. Others wish it would happen. The very greats, however, make it happen. Michael Jordan’s words utterly characterize Cristiano Ronaldo’s World Cup to this point. They also explain Lionel Messi’s anonymity. Ronaldo has been everything for a decidedly average Portuguese side that’s needed him to find goals. They’ll likely need him […]

JANE IS A FAILURE Re: “Why commuting in Toronto is in chaos” (Editorial, June 22): Thank you, Toronto Sun, for saying what needed to be said. Yes, it was Bill Davis that started the gridlock ball rolling. But the real blame lies with the loony ideas of Jane Jacobs who, without any credentials, declared that […]

Tim Dolighan

BRONX, N.Y. — Halfway toward picking up a huge road victory, bad old Toronto FC re-emerged. And against a dominant home side like New York City FC a visiting opponent needs to be strong, smart and committed for a full 90 minutes. TFC, battling energy-sapping heat, certainly wasn’t that in a 2-1 defeat on Sunday […]

The 82 dogs filled every corner of the 'filthy and cramped' house in Birmingham (pictured), and poured out from behind kitchen appliances as officers arrived.

Drew McEwan was posing for a photo at his niece's christening at Loch Lomond in Scotland when his friend Georgina Wilkinson, who was posing as a gardener, tagged him.

Police in France stopped seven British drivers on the road from Calais to Reims on Sunday - with one clocked going 160 miles an hour.  

China is building drones that look, and fly, like real-life birds. They come fitted with a high-definition camera, GPS antenna, flight control system and satellite data link and can fly at 25mph.

Alisa Brown and Stewart Herd have been banned from keeping pets for life after RSPCA inspectors visited their home in Blyth, Northumberland and found five animals in horrendous condition (pictured).

Two men from London have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man died and two others suffered life-threatening injuries during a burglary in Bristol on Monday morning, police said.

'Rush Hour Prowler' Kevin Bond, 51, of Chislehurst, South East London, sexually assaulted girls as young as eight in daylight, and groped his victims before running off.

Prince William has revealed that his wife the Duchess of Cambridge spent almost three years in Jordan as a child when her father worked there for British Airways.