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Migrants cross the Rio Grande from Mexico near El Paso, Texas. A new law makes illegal entry into Texas from a foreign country a state crime. It also authorizes a state judge to order someone to return to Mexico after their arrest. Julian Aguilar/The Texas Newsroom hide caption

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U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, Victor Manuel Rocha, talks to the press, 11 July 2001. Gonzalo Espinoza/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Up First briefing: Ex-ambassador charged as agent of Cuba; Nelson Mandela's legacy

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President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after meeting in November. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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The U.S. supports China's growth if it 'plays by the rules,' commerce secretary says

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U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, Victor Manuel Rocha, talks to the press 11 July 2001. Gonzalo Espinoza/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Former U.S. ambassador charged with being an agent for Cuba

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This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows the USS Carney in the Mediterranean Sea on Oct. 23, 2018. The Carney and several commercial ships came under fire in the Red Sea on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, the Pentagon said. Ryan U. Kledzik/AP file photo hide caption

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 2008 at the Woodrow Wilson Center's inauguration of the Kissinger Institute on China and the U.S. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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From left to right, top: former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former President Donald Trump, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. From left to right, bottom: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy. Joe Raedle/Getty Images; Brandon Bell/Getty Images; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images; Scott Olson/Getty Images; Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption

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Locals say U.S. Border Patrol is delivering hundreds of migrants into a series of camps, one of which is on private property, in the border community of Jacumba in the Southern California desert. Overnight temperatures in the desert have begun to drop below freezing. Ash Ponders for NPR hide caption

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Border Patrol sending migrants to unofficial camps in California's desert, locals say

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This photo provided by Diane Dircks shows a U.S. Navy plane that overshot a Marine base on Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. An official says all nine people aboard the plane have escaped injury. Diane Dircks/AP hide caption

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Police and security stand outside the Center for Jewish Living at Cornell University on Nov. 3 in Ithaca, New York. The university canceled classes after one of its students is accused of making violent antisemetic threats. Matt Burkhartt/Getty Images hide caption

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As threats against Jews, Arabs and Muslims rise, Justice Department looks to help

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A satellite view shows smoke along the Gaza-Israel border on Oct. 7 in an image combining natural with shortwave-infrared highlights. The image came from a Copernicus Sentinel satellite run, by the EU space program. Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2023/Getty Images hide caption

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U.S. President Joe Biden greets China's President President Xi Jinping at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, Calif., Wednesday, Nov, 15, 2023, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative conference. Doug Mills/AP hide caption

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Military personnel of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division take off with a Black Hawk helicopter during a demonstration drill at Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase near Constanta, Romania on July 30, 2022. A Black Hawk helicopter crashed over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea. Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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U.S. President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping are shown meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 14, 2022. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 31, 2023. Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press hide caption

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Ukrainian National Guard soldiers fire a recoilless cannon during combat training at a military training ground in northern Ukraine on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption

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A worker inspects disposable gloves at a factory in Malaysia, a country that has been the top supplier of medical gloves to the U. S. and which is facing increasing competition from China. MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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More medical gloves are coming from China, as U.S. makers of protective gear struggle

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, joined by, from left, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and Republican Conference Chairperson Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., talks with reporters ahead of the debate and vote on supplemental aid to Israel, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption

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