The former Minnesota officer on trial in the shooting death of Daunte Wright said she believed he was trying to flee an arrest. Defense lawyers say that fleeing would have endangered a fellow officer.

The U.S. has left negotiations about paying monetary damages to families who were forcibly separated while seeking to enter at the southern border during the Trump administration.

He and his team were stunned by the number of mutations. They felt they'd made a contribution by alerting the world to a dangerous variant. Then came the travel bans for residents of southern Africa.

The ruling is a major setback for Democrats who have been trying to move immigration reform forward.