“Even before the missiles, before the blackout, Armenians inside and outside Iran understood what it meant to live with one foot hovering near the door. Davidian recalled her mother saying something nearly identical to her aunt’s message during Armenia’s Nagorno-Karabakh War with Azerbaijan in 2020. They, too, debated if to flee. They chose to stay.”

“In Donald Trump’s first 100 days, the borderland’s cattle industry faces a huge challenge: threats of a trade war that’s already hitting consumers in the gut with rising beef prices, from Texas to New York. The on-again, off-again tariff impositions and worries in February and March jolted Mexican cattle producers with mounting economic losses.”

“You are here because the United States government believes that you should be removed from the United States,” said black-robed Judge Ubaid ul-Haq to a girl from the Dominican Republic who watched him via video from a shelter. “It is my job to determine whether you can be removed from the United States.”

“The Armenian critical minerals, such as antimony and copper, once extracted quietly under Russian oversight are now being reimagined as strategic assets that can help respond to new demands and growing supply gaps—using Western investment in exchange for these critical minerals as potential tools of economic independence from Russia.”

“U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins abruptly shut down livestock imports at the U.S.-Mexico border, citing the return of the New World screwworm, a deadly flesh-eating parasite threatening cattle, horses and other vital livestock.”