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MIAMI (AP) — The Democratic presidential candidates have concluded the first 2020 debate by emphasizing the promise of America. The 10 candidates ended the night Wednesday by boiling down their stump speeches into answers that included why they were best positioned to beat President Donald Trump and how the primary is a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. The second night of debates Thursday will also feature 10 candidates, including Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
CLINT, Texas (AP) — Migrant children being housed at a Border Patrol facility near El Paso appeared mostly clean and are being watched by hallway monitors. Those are the conditions witnessed by journalists on Wednesday, less than a week since young migrants reported living there in squalid conditions with inadequate food, water and sanitation.
SAN MARTIN, El Salvador (AP) — The Salvadoran mother of a man who drowned with his 23-month-old daughter while trying to swim across the Rio Grande to Texas finds it hard to look at the heartbreaking photo of their bodies, but takes comfort in knowing they embraced one another in death. Speaking to The Associated Press on Wednesday, Rosa Ramirez said, "I feel so many things, because at no time did he let go of her." The photo has highlighted the dangers that many migrants face trying to reach the U.S.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says South Korea must stop trying to work as a mediator in talks between Pyongyang and Washington. The North's Foreign Ministry on Thursday also repeated its demand that the United States must work out mutually acceptable proposals to salvage a deadlocked nuclear negotiations by the end of December. It says South Korea will "never go through" South Korea when it deals with the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats will propose changes to a $4.6 billion Senate-approved border bill to add new requirements for care of migrants. Pelosi says in a written statement late Wednesday that the amendments will be unveiled Thursday morning. Spokesman Drew Hammill says leaders plan to push the legislation through the House and quickly send it back to the Senate. That still leaves unclear whether the Republican Senate and President Donald Trump will accept the revisions.
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