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A police raid and criminal case against a longtime cultivator of cannabis in New Zealand’s Northland region has stirred up debates about medicinal marijuana.

A boat said to be carrying people from the Rohingya ethnic minority capsized, and another was missing. At least seven bodies were recovered.

A 3-year-old from Colombia died when a boat carrying migrants back to South America capsized off Panama’s Caribbean Coast, an official said. Another child drowned on the same migrant route in February.

The president’s ballroom project will transform one of the most recognizable buildings in the world and could nearly double its size.

Some residents are receiving benefits, but the uncertainty over the past weeks has burdened many in the two states, where the cost of food is the highest in the nation.

The top Senate Republican sounded hopeful on Sunday that enough Democrats could be brought on board to move forward quickly. The top House Democrat expressed outrage at the prospect.

With near-daily TV appearances, the transportation secretary has emerged as the face of the Trump administration amid the shutdown.

Judge Mark L. Wolf, writing in The Atlantic, said he was stepping down to speak out against the “assault on the rule of law” by President Trump, whom he accused of “targeting his adversaries.”

This year’s U.N. climate talks are being held in Brazil and, so far, they’ve been noteworthy for who isn’t attending.