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A needle and thread are pulled carefully through a fabric tortilla warmer, ripped and knotted by the skillful fingers of a local woman of Boquillas, a small Mexican town overlooking the Rio Grande and the site of the nation’s only legal border crossing with the U.S. The embroidery reads No al muro (“No to the wall”), a message started in the first Trump administration. On March 17, 2026, the Presidio Municipal Development District, a political subdivision of the state of Texas, wrote to a handful of federal agencies — U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District…

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Complete footage of the Beatles’ long-lost first-ever appearance on Top of the Pops in 1964 has been found. Recorded March 19, 1964 at the BBC’s Television Theatre in London, the Beatles pantomimed through “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “You Can’t Do That” the day before those songs were released as a single. After airing, the recording of the historic performance was placed in the BBC archives and subsequently erased, as the BBC commonly (and now notoriously) wiped and reused tapes at the time. While grainy, distorted clips of the Beatles’ Top of the Pops visit existed, a complete and clean…

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US President Donald Trump escalated a diplomatic row with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday, accusing her of repeatedly seeking a photograph with him and linking the dispute to tensions over Iran and NATO. The clash has opened an unusually personal rift between Trump and one of Europe’s most prominent right-wing leaders, who had sought to cast herself as a bridge between Washington and the continent during Trump’s return to power. Trump had initially told Italian broadcaster La7 that Meloni “begged” him for a picture at this week’s G7 summit in France, saying he agreed only because he “felt…

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It wasn’t until my daughter reached kindergarten that she realized that the ability to speak English was something other people thought was cool. “Bye, Mommy! Have a good day, Mommy! I’ll see you in the afternoon, Mommy!” she’d shout for all to hear as she walked toward her classroom. She seemed to relish the head turns from the parents and the open-mouthed stares of her classmates. I mean, it’s not every day that being different makes you cooler (as opposed to simply weirder). Raising a bilingual child is rewarding and kind of cool, but there are some things parents should…

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