Jorge Dastis

Health officials in the United States are continuing to ease Covid-19 restrictions even as a growing body of scientific data indicates a large number of cases go undetected and may be fueling the rise of new variants.

Though still a decade away from having a permanent home, the National Museum of the American Latino is just days away from opening in its temporary quarters at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington. The inaugural exhibit, ¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States, begins Saturday in the Molina Family Latino Gallery, an expanse of 4,500 sq ft (418.6 sq m).

The humanitarian crisis brought by the Remain in Mexico program arrived on Tuesday at the doors of the US Supreme Court with a protest by organizations calling for an end to the "racist" policy that "puts an end to human rights" along the US-Mexico border. That was how Lindsay Tozcylowski, executive director of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (Immdef), described the program that the highest US court is now studying to determine whether to continue it or allow it to be shelved.