|  | | | | | | | | | Politics | | | | | | The Trump administration unveiled a new rule to bar almost all immigrants from applying for asylum at the southern border, requiring them to first pursue safe haven in a third country through which they had traveled on the way to the United States. Number 12,026 - better known as Marcial Artigas, 33, from Holguin, Cuba - waited nervously at a migration office at the U.S.-Mexico border as a Mexican official called out numbers from a long list of hopefuls waiting. Artigas said he was praying his number would be called next, before a new U.S. policy announced enters into force that bars almost all immigrants from applying for asylum at the country’s southern border. | | | | | | | | Trump’s campaign kicks off its efforts to woo women voters, banking that a strong economic message will energize a voting bloc that has been largely critical of his presidency. Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, will launch “Women for Trump,” a coalition dedicated to recruiting and activating women in support of the Republican president’s re-election in November 2020. | | | | Executives from tech giants Apple, Amazon.com, Facebook and Alphabet’s Google go before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel to discuss competition in online markets. The committee is likely to discuss antitrust probes of the four companies under way at the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission, as well as allegations that the companies seek to thwart nascent competitors. | | | | Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris unveiled a plan to crack down on pharmaceutical companies which overcharge for prescription drugs, making her the latest 2020 White House candidate to seize on the issue. The senator from California, said her proposal would dramatically lower drug costs by allowing the federal government to set fair prices for what companies can charge and forcing them to pay rebates to consumers for medicines sold at artificially high rates. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | World | | Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen sought to win over skeptical European socialist and liberal lawmakers to back her as European Commission president, laying out ambitious social, climate and migrant policies ahead of a crunch vote. If approved, she would make history as the European Commission’s first female leader. 4 min read | | | | A North Korean nuclear envoy who steered talks before a failed summit with the United States in February is alive, a South Korean legislator said, contradicting a South Korean news report that he had been executed. 2 Min Read | | | | An old four-storey building collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, trapping more than two dozen people in the rubble, with at least four confirmed dead, a fire department official said. 2 min read | | | | When Mariatu Sesay realized she was pregnant at 14, one thing scared her more than the social isolation she felt in the classroom: Sierra Leonean law banned her from attending school at all because she was expecting.
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