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Pilgrims yearn to visit isolated peninsula where …

The Rev. Patrick Killilea gives communion to Meli Watanuki, at Mass on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Kalaupapa, Hawaii. In the 1800s, the peninsula was a settlement for banished leprosy patients, later called Hansen's disease. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Court orders Texas to move floating buoy barrier that …

FILE - Migrants walk past large buoys being used as a floating border barrier on the Rio Grande, Aug. 1, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Texas must move a floating barrier on the Rio Grande that drew backlash from Mexico, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, dealing a blow to one of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's aggressive measures aimed at stopping migrants from entering the U.S. illegally. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, file)

Klete Keller, Olympic gold medalist swimmer, gets 6 months …

Olympic gold medalist swimmer Klete Keller leaves the U.S. Federal Courthouse, after a sentencing hearing on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in Washington. Keller has been sentenced to six months of home detention for joining the mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon also sentenced him to three years of probation and ordered him to perform 360 hours of community service. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Mississippi sheriff changes policies after violent abuse. …

FILE - Eddie Terrell Parker, right, and Michael Corey Jenkins, center, listen as one of six former Mississippi law officers pleads guilty to state charges at the Rankin County Circuit Court in Brandon, Miss., Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Information unveiled in a justice department investigation and media reports show that a Mississippi sheriff who leads a department where former deputies tortured the two Black men in a racially motivated assault failed to train his deputies properly, the men's attorneys say in an amended civil complaint. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Chicago and other northern US cities scramble to house …

Construction of a government-run tent encampment for migrants is underway Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Illinois appeals court affirms actor Jussie Smollett’s …

FILE - Jussie Smollett arrives at the BET Awards, June 26, 2022, in Los Angeles. An appeals court on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, upheld the disorderly conduct convictions of Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police.(Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Japan expresses concern about Ospreys continuing to fly …

A Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force minesweeper searches in the waters where a U.S. military Osprey aircraft crashed, off Yakushima, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Japan suspended flights by its Osprey aircraft Thursday, officials said, the day after the U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed into the sea during a training mission. (Kyodo News via AP)

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Biden lights the National Christmas Tree, taking …

Joe Walsh and St. Vincent perform after President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden lit the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse, near the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Peruvian rainforest defender from embattled Kichwa …

This portrait provided by the Forest Peoples Programme shows Indigenous Kichwa tribal leader Quinto Inuma Alvarado in Tarapoto, Peru, on Oct. 11, 2019. Alvarado was shot and killed on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that's seen high tensions between Indigenous people and illegal loggers. (Vicki Brown/Forest Peoples Programme via AP)

Peruvian rainforest defender from embattled Kichwa …

This portrait provided by the Forest Peoples Programme shows Indigenous Kichwa tribal leader Quinto Inuma Alvarado in Tarapoto, Peru, on Oct. 11, 2019. Alvarado was shot and killed on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that's seen high tensions between Indigenous people and illegal loggers. (Vicki Brown/Forest Peoples Programme via AP)

Congressmen ask DOJ to investigate water utility …

This photo provided by the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa shows the screen of a Unitronics device that was hacked in Aliquippa, Pa., on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. The hacked device was in a pumping booster station owned by the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa. An electronic calling card left by the hackers suggests they picked their target because it uses components made by an Israeli company. (Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa via AP)

US prosecutors say plots to assassinate Sikh leaders …

Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is pictured in his office on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in New York. U.S. authorities said an Indian government official directed a plot to assassinate Pannun in New York City after he advocated for a sovereign state for Sikhs. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

What to know about the Sikh independence movement …

Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is pictured in his office on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in New York. U.S. authorities said an Indian government official directed a plot to assassinate Pannun in New York City after he advocated for a sovereign state for Sikhs. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

GOP Rep. George Santos refuses to resign and warns …

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023, in Washington, next to a photo of Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., sitting in the House chamber together and laughing. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)