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Federal contractors felled a centuries-old cottonwood on the U.S.-Mexico border Monday after U.S. Border Patrol agents removed protesters who had spent about 70 days trying to save it from President Donald Trump’s border wall expansion. The tree in Lochiel, Arizona, known to activists as the “grandmother” tree, was the last of four old cottonwoods targeted for removal at the site. Conservation groups estimated its age at 200 to 250 years, the newspaper La Jornada reported. Just brutal to see. DHS contractors just plowed through the last of the four ancient cottonwood trees in Arizona–a tree older than the border itself–to…

The celebrity dancers performed to a variety of the pop star’s hits, including “Obsessed” and “Hero” Dancing With the Stars paid tribute to Mariah Carey with a series of performances set to the pop star’s hits. Carey welcomed the contestants to the show with an opening message, noting that she couldn’t wait to see “how these fabulous couples bring my songs to life.” “I wish I could be there tonight, but I’ll be watching and cheering you on from afar,” Carey added before the show’s opening number, which was set to “Heartbreaker.” During the themed show, the dancers performed to…

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas — Across his two businesses in this once-booming border town, David Reyna sees signs of ramped-up immigration enforcement everywhere.Fewer customers are coming to his lumber yard. Even fewer people are calling his upstairs real estate business. And the house he is building? It is stalled, a set of concrete slabs and wooden planks untouched for months.

A California pair has been charged with multiple counts of abusing at least 14 surrogate-born children – some as young as two months old – and dissuading a witness.”The number of children who were subjected to this alleged horrific abuse is unprecedented,” Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan J Hochman said in a statement.Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, who US media describe as a couple, were arrested at their Arcadia mansion on Tuesday.The pair pleaded not guilty at a Pasadena courthouse, the BBC’s US partner CBS News reported.Xuan, 66, and Zhang, 39, are accused of conspiring to subject 15 of the…

 The actress was set to play the singer-songwriter in a since-shelved biopic Amanda Seyfried was recently paid a visit by Hollywood’s favorite franchise psycho-killer. On Tuesday, Seyfried shared an Instagram video of herself performing Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You” from what appears to be the comfort of her home. As Seyfried sings the verse, “I met a woman/She had a mouth like yours/She knew your life/She knew your devils and your deeds,” a blonde Ghostface creeps up from behind. Naturally, when the actress gets to the line, “And she said, ‘Go to him, stay with him if you can/Oh,…

Real Madrid are taking a cautious approach with Kylian Mbappé’s recovery from the knee injury he picked up during the FIFA break but the French striker will almost surely be available to face Villarreal this Saturday, according to a report published today on MARCA.That doesn’t mean that the Frenchman will start, though. Real Madrid will play a tough away game against Roma next week and Mourinho could decide to keep Mbappé fresh for the European match. Still, it seems clear that the French star will be more than ready for El Clásico later this month, which was always the main…

Fixed capital investment in Mexico — money spent by the private and public sectors on long-term assets such as houses, factories and machinery — increased 6% annually in July, the strongest growth of any month in two years. The national statistics agency INEGI reported the seasonally adjusted growth rate on Monday in its monthly report on gross fixed capital formation, a measure of fixed capital investment (FCI). It is the product of a 5.9% year-over-year increase in private sector FCI and a 6.9% increase in public sector FCI. Annual private sector FCI growth increased 2 percentage points from June to…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. If you have not read the original Divergent series, or watched the popular YA films, consider this your spoiler warning. Veronica Roth has returned to dystopian Chicago with The Sixth Faction, the first book in a new alternate-universe duology. The novel, which has been available for preorder since April, arrived on Oct. 6 and asks what might have happened if Beatrice “Tris” Prior had chosen a different faction — Abnegation. And yes, Four is still part of her story.…

Democrat Troy Jackson attempted to pierce Republican Sen. Susan Collins’s reputation as an effective senator who steers millions of dollars to Maine in a Tuesday night debate, criticizing her for making life more expensive for Mainers by posing what he termed as inadequate resistance to President Donald Trump’s war in Iran and tariffs against Canada.

A missile attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv killed two people on Wednesday, the mayor said, after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of “massive strikes” heading towards the city. The capital has come under increased attack in recent weeks as winter approaches, with air raid sirens wailing nearly constantly to warn of incoming Russian strikes. Read moreMacron slams Russia’s ‘irresponsible’ strikes on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure Residents hunkered down in subway stations early on Wednesday, hauling duffel bags, sleeping mats and blankets, after the military issued alerts for Kyiv and other parts of the country. “We grabbed our things and came here, we…