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The gift of a flying lesson propels Bloomington man to buy a plane and get his pilots license, something hes wanted since he was a kid.

Theresa Guerrero never thought she would have to live a day without her son Jacob. But on a tainted day in May 2020 that nightmare became her reality, she was

Death records from the Yuma County medical examiner show migrant deaths have already more than doubled in 2021 compared to 2020.

Biden's plan to increase border funding is a continuation of Trump's problematic policy, not a break from it.

Central American asylum seekers arrive to a bus station after being released by U.S. Border Patrol agents on February 26, 2021 in Brownsville, Texas.

Alvaro Enciso plants three or four crosses each week in Arizona’s desert borderlands, amid the yellow-blossomed prickly pear and whip-like ocotillo, in honor of migrants who died on the northbound trek. Each colorful wooden memorial denotes where a...

Adults are crossing the border at the highest levels in at least a decade, many through remote desert terrain. Rescue operations are on pace to double this year.

More migrants dying since push into remote, hostile Arizona regions By Associated Press PHOENIX - Migrants trekking across the Arizona borderlands have died at higher rates in the past two decades since stepped-up enforcement began funneling them into remote, hostile desert and mountain regions, a sweeping new analysis concluded on April 19. The report by the University of Arizona Binational Migration Institute provides a multidiscipline look at migrant border death investigations in Arizona ...

Occasionally, the hikers came across a piece of clothing, a water bottle, a backpack, or a .50 caliber bullet casing leftover from bombing and live-fire exercises at the nearby Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range. But signs of human life are largely absent in this harsh and unforgiving landscape. The southern Arizona sun, 15 miles from the Mexico border, was brutally hot, even in the early hours of a March morning. The intimidating Growler Mountains loomed over the flat and exposed desert expans...

MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images Tens of thousands of Covid-19 deaths are going unreported in the U.S., with far more missed in counties that strongly supported former President Trump, according to new research. The figures suggest that political leanings have helped suppress the true scale of deaths. In cases where the deceased didn’t have a Covid-19 test, a coroner or medical examiner has the freedom to interpret symptoms. “There’s potentially latitude to make a judgement call conditiona...