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Since Garcia's abduction earlier this year, citizens have been rallying across the country to bring him home. Now that it looks like they succeeded, the Trump administration is still trying to find a way to deport the Maryland father. (Astrid Riecken / Getty Images)

García freed, faces new removal threat

CK Smith
Food served on resort table (Getty Images / Wayne Eastep)

Rewriting the rules of luxury travel

Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu
Migrants deported from the US gesture as they look out the window of the Decapolis Hotel where they are temporarily staying in Panama City, on February 18, 2025. (ARNULFO FRANCO/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump deportees stuck in limbo at hotel

Tatyana Tandanpolie
This albino sloth was named Goldie by the Sloth Conservation Foundation (Dr. Rebecca Cliffe/The Sloth Conservation Foundation)

Why Costa Rica's sloths may be mutating

Levi Stallings
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Happy senior man reading next to the Aegean sea (Getty Images/Anastasija Vujic)

Longevity advice from the blue zones

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Research Vessel Falkor (too) (Schmidt Ocean Institute)

Treasure trove of "mermaid purses"

Ashley Balzer
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Deep sea octopus moms are suffocating

Rose Jones
Chile's President Michelle Bachelet arrives to the airport in Arica, Chile one day after an earthquake on the Pacific coast, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo, Pool) (AP)

Female leaders don't always help women

Merike Blofield, Christina Ewig, Jennifer M. Piscopo - The Conversation
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"The Handmaid's Tale" (Hulu/George Kraychyk)

"Handmaids" protest Costa Rican election

Rachel Leah
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How to improve happiness in America

Rachel Leah
(AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)

Caitlin Fouratt - The Conversation
Ronald Reagan, Oliver North (AP/Barry Thumma/Lana Harris)

Ted Cruz can't handle truth

Adam Gaffney
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(AP/Richard Drew)

Tom Hays
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Prachi Gupta
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Matt Levin
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