According to a CBP official speaking on background, 50 people were released Tuesday and 200 people are expected to be released Wednesday. The official calls it a "temporary measure" and says the move is being made "due to limited bed space" and "to mitigate risks to both officer safety and vulnerable populations under these circumstances."Immigration and Customs Enforcement has also released families along the southwest border due to capacity issues and the inability to hold families longer than 20 days. Both the ICE and new CBP policies are in effect a return to "catch and release" policies that the Trump administration has criticized. Individuals are released with a notice to appear in court. The Department Homeland Security has begun returning some asylum seekers who present themselves at ports of entry in California to Mexico for the duration of their immigration proceedings and has indicated it plans to expand the practice across the southern border. This policy is being challenged in court. The Wall Street Journal first reported the plans to release some migrants with notices to appear in the Rio Grande Valley sector.

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It's the second time in eight months that a jury has reached such a decision. But Edwin Hardeman's case against Monsanto is the first to be tried in federal court. And thousands of similar cases are still pending at the federal or state level. "We are very pleased that the jury unanimously held that the Roundup caused the non-Hodgkin lymphoma," Hardeman's attorney Jennifer Moore said. "It was a hard, long-fought battle against Monsanto. And for Mr. Hardeman to have his day in court and to show that Roundup does cause cancer."But this trial isn't over yet. While the first phase focused on whether Roundup caused Hardeman's cancer, the second phase — which begins Wednesday — focuses on whether Monsanto is liable. Bayer, the parent company of Monsanto, insists that glyphosate — the key ingredient in Roundup — is safe. "We are disappointed with the jury's initial decision, but we continue to believe firmly that the science confirms glyphosate-based herbicides do not cause cancer," Bayer said in a statement. "We are confident the evidence in phase two will show that Monsanto's conduct has been appropriate and the company should not be liable for Mr. Hardeman's cancer."Bayer said the jury's verdict Tuesday "has no impact on future cases and trials because each one has its own factual and legal circumstances."

Another cancer patient was awarded $78 million

It's unclear how much the jury might award Hardeman in damages, if anything at all. But last August, in the first state trial over whether Roundup can cause cancer, California jurors awarded former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson $289 million in punitive and compensatory damages. A judge later reduced the total award to $78 million. But Johnson's attorney Timothy LItzenburg said his client has not seen much of it because Monsanto is appealing. Johnson's case was the first to go to trial because doctors said he was near death. And in California, dying plaintiffs can be granted expedited trials.Litzenburg said he and other attorneys have more than 4,000 similar cases awaiting trial in various state courts. One advantage of filing in state court rather than federal court is that state courts often produce outcomes faster — which can be critical for terminally ill patients.But Hardeman's case is in federal multidistrict litigation, or MDL.MDL is similar to a class-action lawsuit because it consolidates pre-trial proceedings when there are multiple plaintiffs, for the sake of efficiency.But unlike a class-action lawsuit, each case within MDL gets its own trial — with its own outcome.In other words, one MDL plaintiff might get a large settlement, while another plaintiff might get nothing.

The heated debate over glyphosate

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients who used Roundup started suing Monsanto by the hundreds after a World Health Organization report suggested glyphosate might cause cancer.The 2015 report, by WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer, said glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic to humans."But Monsanto has long maintained that Roundup does not cause cancer, and said the IARC report is greatly outnumbered by studies saying glyphosate is safe. "More than 800 scientific studies, the US EPA [Environmental Protection Agency], the National Institutes of Health and regulators around the world have concluded that glyphosate is safe for use and does not cause cancer," Monsanto Vice President of Strategy Scott Partridge said in August.He highlighted the Agricultural Health Study, which concerned the effects of glyphosate products on farmers from 1993 to 2013. A summary of that study said "no association was apparent between glyphosate and any solid tumors or lymphoid malignancies overall, including NHL (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma)."In most cases of lymphoma, the cause is unknown, according to the American Cancer Society. Yet critics question whether Monsanto has had undue influence over regulators.In a 2015 internal company email, a Monsanto executive wrote that an EPA official at the time offered to help quash another agency's review of glyphosate, saying "If I can kill this I should get a medal." But a Monsanto spokeswoman said the company has never paid, given gifts to or done anything else to curry favor with anyone from the EPA.While debate continues over whether glyphosate is safe, parts of the country are limiting or banning it, said the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. "Following the state court decision last year, we saw a huge uptick in local ordinances that would regulate the use of Roundup on playgrounds, schoolyards and public parks," said PIRG's Kara Cook-Schultz, who leads a campaign to ban Roundup. "For example, the city of Miami just banned the use of glyphosate. With this decision [Tuesday], we expect to see the same explosion in awareness."

CNN's Jennifer Selva contributed to this report.

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This year, the first day of spring — also known as the vernal equinox — falls on March 20. Here's what you need to know about the occasion.

What's the spring equinox?

The vernal quinox marks one of the two times a year when day and night are nearly the same length. The term equinox comes from the Latin word equinoxium, which means "equality between day and night."This phenomenon occurs when the center of the sun is directly above Earth's equator. The spring equinox signals that the Northern Hemisphere of the planet has begun slowly tilting toward the sun, leading to longer days and more sunlight, according to NASA.

When is it, exactly?

The precise time of the astronomical start of spring is Wednesday at 5:58 p.m. ET. If you're in a different time zone, you can check what time it starts on the US Naval Observatory's website.

Is anything special happening?

The night sky will shine a little brighter than usual. There will be a full moon on Wednesday at 9:43 p.m. ET, just a few hours after the official start of spring. It's the first time since 1981 that the spring equinox and a full moon coincide on the same day. This full moon is also extra special because it will be a supermoon. That means the moon will appear larger than normal because of its close proximity to Earth.

Is the spring equinox always on the same day?

No, but it doesn't vary by much. The spring equinox always occurs in the Northern Hemisphere on March 19, 20 or 21. The date of the equinox changes from year to year to account for the fact that the Earth doesn't take exactly 365 days to make a complete revolution around the sun. The Gregorian calendar adds a leap day every four years to account for this, and the spring equinox date varies for the same reason.

How do people celebrate it?

People across the globe mark the occasion in various ways. The vernal equinox also is the Persian New Year, known as Nowruz (and other spellings). For more than 300 million people worldwide it's the start of a monthlong celebration of new beginnings. In Chichen Itza, Mexico, thousands gather at the Kulkulkan pyramid. In the late afternoon, the sun creates a shadow that looks like a snake sliding down the northern staircase.And in Stonehenge, England, pagans, druids and tourists watch the picturesque sunrise at the prehistoric monument.Holi, a major festival in India that marks the start of spring, also begins on March 20 this year. During Holi, people come together for song, dance and to splash their loved ones with colored powder and water.

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A British man has been killed in a collision at an off-road vehicle event in Texas known as "Rednecks with Paychecks Spring Break".

Steven Fairbairn, from Newcastle upon Tyne, died from head injuries in hospital after the vehicle he was driving collided head-on with another all-terrain vehicle.

The crash happened on a dirt road within the grounds of the four-day festival and Mr Fairbairn was airlifted to a Fort Worth hospital, according to Montague County Sheriff's chief deputy Jack Lawson.

His death was ruled an accident, but his family has been frustrated by a lack of answers.

The 25-year-old's mother, Lynne Fairbairn, told WFAA television that organisers of the Rednecks with Paychecks event have not responded to their questions or offered condolences.

A post on the group's Facebook page on Monday described it as their "best ever event".

Mr Lawson said the group's owner, Derrick Morse, had been co-operating with the investigation into Mr Fairbairn's death.

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Friends of the 25-year-old set up a Go Fund Me page to raise money for his fiance Abbey Green, whom he had proposed to two weeks before.

The page said his family was expected to travel to the couple's home in Duncan, Oklahoma, from the UK to say goodbye.

Organisers of Rednecks with Paychecks describe the event as "four days and nights of mud, rocks, music, camping, and friends".

It states that participants must be 18 or over, and must sign a waiver before arrival.

Miss Green told WFAA that the documents amount to "signing your life away" and called for the off-road event to be shut down.

In 2015, a 10-year-old boy was killed after an ATV crash at a Rednecks with Paychecks event.

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KABUL/KATHMANDU/NEW YORK, 1 JULY 2019 – “The deadly blast that hit the Afghan capital Kabul during rush hour today did not spare children during one of their most mundane and important routines: Being at school.

“Initial reports show that more than 50 children were injured when their school was damaged in the attack. This is horrific.

“Schools should be havens of peace. Violence in or around schools is never acceptable.

“An already dire security situation in Afghanistan has recently been getting worse. This violence, which keeps blighting futures and claiming young lives, must end.”

“UNICEF renews its call to all parties to the conflict to end the violence and to protect children at all times. Generations of Afghan children have known nothing but war. It is more than time that they enjoyed a life free of violence and conflict.”

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A man killed three people in a grocery store in Washington State before committing suicide.

A man killed three people before committing suicide on Tuesday in the US state of Washington, police said, the tragedy constituting the third killing in four days in the west of the country. Two shootings had mourned California, killing 11 and 7 within 48 hours of each other. This new killing took place around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday (12:30 p.m. Belgian time) around and inside a grocery store in Yakita, a city of 97,000 inhabitants two hours’ drive from Seattle. The 21-year-old suspect, Jarid Haddock, had no particular reason to attack his victims, according to the police. “There was no apparent conflict between the people.

The man just walked into the grocery store and started shooting,” Yakima Police Chief Matthew Murray said earlier on Tuesday. He then shot two people outside the store, before stealing a car and fleeing. A manhunt followed, with authorities warning that the suspect was “armed and dangerous”. Then the police received a call from a woman saying that the wanted individual had borrowed her phone. He “called his mother and made several incriminating statements such as ‘I killed these people'” before saying he was going to kill himself, Matthew Murray told reporters. Officers dispatched to the scene arrived just in time to hear gunshots. They tried to resuscitate him, without success.

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