Texas law enforcement officials and National Guard posted up along a section of the southern border in El Paso overnight to prevent a line of Venezuelan migrants from charging the barriers.
Alsu Kurmasheva, an American-Russian journalist, was visiting her mother in Russia when authorities confiscated her passports and jailed her - an act one NGO calls "state-sponsored hostage-taking."
A developer has proposed replacing the Bassett Street buildings to construct more than 190 apartments with commercial space including a fitness center and dog spa.
It was a deadly weekend in Oakland, as the city saw its first homicides of the year. Three people were killed over Saturday and Sunday in three separate shootings.