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U.S. President Joe Biden signs an executive order on immigration, in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Judge bans enforcement of Biden's 100-day deportation pause

A federal judge late Tuesday indefinitely banned U.S. President Joe Biden's administration from enforcing a 100-day moratorium on most deportations.

In this Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020 file photo, Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave after visiting Canada House in London. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Prince Harry and Meghan donate new roof to Texas women's shelter damaged in storm

A Texas shelter badly damaged by last week's winter storm is getting help from an unexpected donor.

Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, center, speaks during a news conference to announce charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein, Thursday, July 2, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Ghislaine Maxwell makes third attempt at bail, offers to renounce foreign citizenship

Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite awaiting trial on charges that she recruited teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, says she'll renounce her U.K. and French citizenships if she can be freed on bail, according to a court filing Tuesday.

In this Aug. 23, 2019 file photo, immigrants seeking asylum walk at the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center, in Dilley, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Amid surge, U.S. tries to expedite release of migrant children

With its long-term facilities for immigrant children nearly full, the Biden administration is working to expedite the release of children to their relatives in the U.S.

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2018, file photo, a house is pictured for sale in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealand's government on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021 made the first of several promised moves to rein in skyrocketing house prices by ordering the nation's Reserve Bank to consider the impact on housing when making decisions. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

New Zealand's virus success unleashes runaway housing prices

New Zealand's success in battling the coronavirus has unleashed an unanticipated problem: skyrocketing house prices.

A woman holds her malnourished boy at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, June 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

UN: Yemen faces world's worst famine and needs $3.85 billion

Conflict-torn Yemen 'is falling off a cliff' and will face the worst famine the world has seen for decades unless donors, and especially its Gulf neighbours, contribute generously to this year's U.N. humanitarian appeal for $3.85 billion, the U.N. humanitarian chief warned Wednesday.

FILE - In this May 3, 2020 photo, the setting sun shines on the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

U.S. Supreme Court weighs scope of police power to enter homes without a warrant

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared reluctant to give police unlimited power to enter a home without a warrant when pursuing a suspect for a minor crime in a case involving a California driver tailed by an officer after honking his horn while listening to music.

In this March 24, 2020, file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at the Jacob Javits Center in New York.(AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Former aide says Cuomo kissed her, suggested strip poker

A former member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration who previously accused him of sexual harassment offered new details Wednesday, saying he once kissed her on the lips without consent after a private meeting. 1

Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and US resident, was killed in 2018. (AFP)

Biden says has seen intelligence report on Saudi journalist's murder

U.S. President Joe Biden said Wednesday he has already seen a soon-to-be released intelligence report detailing the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 file photo debris at the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Unclear whether Iran's shooting down of Flight PS752 intentional: UN investigator

Inconsistencies in the Iran government's explanation of the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane last year raise questions over whether it was intentional, an independent UN investigator says, but she had found no concrete evidence that it was. 3

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting of the Federal Security Service (FSB) board in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin warns of unnamed foreign efforts to destabilize Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his nation's top counterintelligence agency Wednesday to redouble its efforts to address what he described as Western attempts to destabilize Russia.

The defector, reportedly in his 20s, landed north of the town of Goseong on the east coast. (AFP)

North Korean defector undetected after swimming for hours to South

A North Korean defector wore a diving suit and fins during a daring six-hour swim around one of the world's most fortified borders, a Seoul official said, and was caught only after apparently falling asleep.