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WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has postponed an immigration policy speech. The Republican presidential nominee was to lay out his immigration policy in an address on Thursday in Denver. A campaign official says the speech has been pushed back, likely until next week. There was no explanation. Trump said in an interview on Monday that he would have a "fair but firm" policy toward the 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. Trump denies it's a flip-flop. At an Ohio rally on Monday night, the business executive repeated his pledge to build a border wall.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief is calling on all combatants in the Syrian city of Aleppo to agree to a 48-hour pause to allow delivery of desperately needed aid. Stephen O'Brien told the U.N. Security Council that failure to act risks a "humanitarian catastrophe unparalleled in the over five years of bloodshed" in Syria.

BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai military court has started the trial of two foreigners charged with the bombing of a popular shrine in Bangkok's center a year ago that killed 20 people and injured more than 120. The defendants — two ethnic Uighurs (WEE'-gurz) of Chinese nationality - were driven straight into the military court building Tuesday. The bombing was one of the deadliest acts of violence in Thailand in decades.

CITRONELLE, Ala. (AP) — Residents of a southwest Alabama town where five people were slain are trying to raise money to help the victims' families pay funeral expenses. Relatives of some of the victims have started an online fundraiser, and a plastic jug for donations sits on the counter of a convenience store a couple miles from the scene of the massacre near Citronelle, located in southwest Alabama. Authorities the man killed five people at a house where his estranged girlfriend had sought refuge from him.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge in has ruled in favor of a Southern California museum in its 10-year legal battle over the ownership of two German Renaissance masterpieces that were seized by the Nazis in World War II. Judge John F. Walter ruled that Pasadena's Norton Simon Museum, where the paintings "Adam" and "Eve" have been for more than 30 years, is the rightful owner of the two life-size oil-on-panel paintings.

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