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As part of his immigration proposal, President Trump has proposed eliminating the Green Card Lottery that allows around 55,000 people who have no family connection or employer sponsor to enter the U.S. each year. Muzaffar Chishti, a director of the Migration Policy Institute, explains the origin of the program and how it's changed.

The White House's withdrawal of Victor Cha as a candidate for ambassador to South Korea comes as an apparent result of differing views on the idea of using a preemptive strike against North Korea.

Many journalists and pundits refer to J.D. Vance's memoir Hillbilly Elegy for a better understanding of the people who live in the Appalachia region. That doesn't sit well with historian Elizabeth Catte, so she wrote her rebuttal in What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia.

The country's government shut down three TV stations after they tried to broadcast an event held by an opposition politician Tuesday.

Thursday marks 50 years since two sanitation workers were killed in a grisly accident in Memphis. Their deaths set the stage for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to be in the city where he was assassinated.

San Francisco's special mayoral election is exposing racial, ethnic and economic fault lines. The leading candidates represent just how much the city has changed in recent years due to tech money.

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced Wednesday that his office will dismiss thousands of marijuana-related convictions dating back to 1975, now that pot is legal in the state.

An investigation by The Associated Press details a massacre and at least five mass graves in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled from there to Bangladesh since last August.

The second line of "O Canada," which has said the nation inspires patriotism "in all thy sons," will now read "in all of us." The change has passed the country's Senate. The House approved it in 2016.

Airlines are clarifying their policies on emotional support animals, requiring more documentation about the need for the animal. Recently, a woman tried to board a flight with a peacock.