Five children, including an infant, found abandoned near U.S.-Mexico border in sweltering heat
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Five undocumented migrant girls, including an infant, were discovered alone in southern Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday, authorities said.
A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent responded to a call from a Maverick County constable concerning several undocumented migrant children in Normandy, the agency said. The agent later encountered the girls whose ages ranged from 11-months to 7 years old. Three are from Honduras and two are from Guatemala. Republican Congressman Tony Gonzales, who represents the district where Maverick County is located, tweeted a photo of the young girls. Gonzales also shared a video of a farmer who said he was driving around on Mother's Day morning when he spotted the girls by themselves.Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving more than one million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people in seven states during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Actor Richard Dreyfuss is facing backlash for allegedly sharing remarks that audience members found sexist, homophobic and generally offensive at a Q&A event over the weekend tied to a Massachusetts theater's screening of "Jaws." Dreyfuss starred in the 1975 blockbuster that was filmed in Massachusetts and screened Saturday night at The Cabot, a performing arts center in the coastal community of Beverly.
Another American who was arrested in the Turks and Caicos Islands for possessing ammunition was sentenced to time served and a $9,000 fine on Tuesday, local media reported. Tyler Wenrich was facing a potential mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years in prison for ammunition charges in the British territory.