Mexico Border Wall

by Alex Navarro on January 22, 2021Look, man. It was a year. Here are some video games that helped me get through it. Thank you to @nomchonks on Twitter for this strange, but wonderful image.Alex Navarro is an editor for Giant Bomb, and doesn't especially feel like writing a jokey…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump issued a wave of pardons Tuesday night, using the final hours of his presidency to grant clemency to 143 people, including former top White House aide Steve Bannon, according to a list made public by the White House on Wednesday morning. Bannon — Trump's former…

Los Angeles United States President Donald Trump visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday just a week before he is due to leave office to tout what he views as one of his biggest accomplishments: the partial construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Mr. Trump visited the wall in…

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1of20A pathway cleared by explosives to make way for border wall construction separates Mexico, right, and the USA, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Guadalupe Canyon, Ariz. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique…

For enslaved Black Americans contemplating escape before the Civil War, the North increasingly looked like a bad option. Though Northern states had abolished slavery by the early nineteenth century, free Blacks were denied the right to vote, had limited employment options, and endured legal segregation. Much of the Midwest restricted…

Workers filmed the unknown man abseiling down the 30ft high steel wall in a Tiktok clip viewed over a million times.The man, wearing a hoody, slides down the wall before sprinting and hiding in the dense undergrowth as the Spanish speaking workers look on.The video went viral on Twitter with…

Donald Trump was the first US president to step foot inside North Korea. He’s pictured here with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un on the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in June 2019. File photo: AP Brash and pugnacious, Trump has presided over a tumultuous…

For all the praise that CNN’s graphics department has been raking in for its Trump-correcting chyrons, it was another visual from election night that caught my eye. Providing a breakdown of the Trump electorate by race, the outlet listed the voter groups as white, Black, Asian, Latino, and “Something Else.”I’m…

Rudy Soto, a Shosone-Bannock citizen running for a House seat for Idaho’s First District, had to remind me of something that can be surprisingly easy to forget: There is, technically, already a Native American Caucus in Congress.This is not a setup for a commentary on the visibility of the four…