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He moved to Mexico after decades of being undocumented in the US. Then he got a $1.8 million fine from DHS | CNN
Hector “Alessandro” Negrete got the phone call nine months after he moved to Guadalajara, Mexico, hoping for a fresh start without the onerous weight of uncertainty and fear he carried in Los Angeles.
They were building infrastructure in Nepal. Their families in China want to know what happened to them | CNN
Chinese workers have been working on infrastructure in Nepal. Their families want to know what happened to them.
Live updates: Warning signs were visible ahead of Nepal-China floods, report says | CNN
Areas of Nepal are still out of the reach of rescue teams, according to the UN, while the death toll from the disaster now exceeds 1,000. Follow for live updates.

AI’s not taking all the jobs. Just ask your local hobby shop, garage band and crafts store | CNN Business
Young people are embracing “grandma hobbies” and flocking to in-person events at a time when artificial intelligence encroaches on many aspects of life.

She was a ’90s grunge queen. These are her photos on the road | CNN
Bassist Melissa Auf der Maur toured with Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins during a whirlwind decade she documented on film. But she held onto the photos in private, until now.

A 30-year wait for justice in Tupac’s killing ends with a murder conviction in under 3 hours | CNN
It took years for someone to be arrested in Tupac Shakur’s fatal shooting. By contrast, it took less than three hours for a jury of 12 to convict Duane “Keffe D” Davis of first-degree murder.

In 2020, James Talarico said Texas oil was “not gonna last,” spoke of “dismantling” capitalism, white supremacy and climate change | CNN Politics
Six years before becoming Texas Democrats’ US Senate nominee, James Talarico described capitalism as an “oppressive system” during a Sierra Club event, grouping it with White supremacy and climate change and saying ending the ways all three worked together was necessary to begin the process of “dismantling them.”

Scientists attached transmitters to narwhals in the Arctic. The data they brought back was alarming | CNN
Narwhals are known for their long spiral tusks. Now, a group of these otherworldly marine mammals have a different claim to fame: Acting as Arctic scientists.

USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public | CNN Politics
The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*t show,” according to a new whistleblower report released Tuesday by a Democratic senator.