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Actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has previously gushed of being “starstruck” by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, has now shared pictures of the two going for a bike ride around Santa Monica. The former California governor posted images of their meeting to his Twitter account, showing them on a bike ride and meeting his daughter Christina.

SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration said Thursday that more than 1,800 children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border have been reunited with parents and sponsors but hundreds remain apart, signaling a potentially long wait for anguished families. The federal government was under a Thursday deadline to reunify more than 2,500 children separated from their parents under a new immigration policy designed to deter immigrants from coming here illegally. The policy quickly backfired amid global outrage from political and religious leaders and daily headlines about crying children taken from their parents. President Donald Trump ended the practice, but a federal judge...

The Korean War is coming to an end. It’s the conclusion of the last major chapter of the Cold War. Both sides said there’s an agreement on a peace treaty and the denuclearization of the peninsula. It’s something that has eluded the Bush and Obama administrations. Funny—Trump mocks North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, called him “rocket man,” and sets off a panic among Democratic circles that his tweets could set off nuclear world war III. Why? Well, because North Korea threatened to do so, which they’ve done for years. It shouldn’t be taken seriously—and it wasn’t; the markets really didn’t...

A woman found a badly injured lion in the forest. She took it with her and nursed it back to health. When it was better, she made arrangements with a zoo to take the lion and give it a new and happy home. This video was taken when she returned to the zoo some time later to see how her lion was doing. Watch the lion's amazing reaction when he sees her!

Separated as babies in 1972 due to family poverty, the brothers are together again after a chance encounter in a crowded city. Twin brothers, separated as babies, have been reunited after more than 40 years following a chance encounter in China's Sichuan province.

WILLIAMSBURG Karen Martin was having a bad year. She had broken up with her boyfriend, money was tight, and then her dog went missing. Willis, a 6-year-old clumber spaniel, disappeared from her Portsmouth backyard Dec. 21, 2009. "Last Christmas was terrible," said Martin, an operating systems programmer for the city of Chesapeake. "I was so distraught." It took almost a year, but Willis came home - thanks to the kindness of strangers and the extensive networking among humane societies and rescue groups. "It's amazing," said Martin, who now lives in Williamsburg. "My chances of getting my dog back after so...

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan, June 21, 2010 – Two Marine corporals who are twin brother and sister are serving in Afghanistan, a long way from their hometown of Niagara Falls, N.Y. Marine Corps Cpls. Jordan and Jade Myles, 20, from Niagara Falls, N.Y., are twin brother and sister who reunited in Afghanistan after being apart for nearly two years. They're deployed to Afghanistan in support of the International Security Assistance Force. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Cpls. Jordan and Jade Myles, 20, reunited after being apart for almost two years. The siblings are deployed to Afghanistan in support...

Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C. — Marines and sailors from Marine Wing Support Squadron 273 returned to Fightertown April 23 and 25 from a seven-month deployment to Al Asad Air Base, Iraq. Families waited in eager anticipation as they watched the commercial airliner taxi down the flightline towards the hangar. As the Marines and sailors stepped out of the plane and down the stairs, they were ordered to go see their families. A mass wave of people surged forward, reuniting with loved ones after seven months. “It’s great to be around my family again,” said Lance Cpl. Chris Smiley,...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Around 300 Marines and sailors from 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, returned home, April 22, after a seven month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During the deployment, the Marines worked closely with Iraqi Security Forces towards the goal of a more self-sufficient Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police. “It was extremely successful. We were there during the elections and got to see a new government in Ramadi,” explained Lt. Col. Thad Trapp, battalion commander 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines. “We were able to have a (U.S.-Iraq) Status of Forces Agreement...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Page Content The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which includes about 2,200 Marines and sailors, returned to Camp Lejeune, N.C., from the ships of the USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group beginning March 23 after a seven-month deployment which began August 25, 2008. While in the 5th and 6th Fleet Areas of Operation, the MEU supported regional security and stability sometimes as a show of force and other times as a helping hand. Besides supporting operations in Iraq and off the Horn of Africa, the MEU also conducted numerous Theater Security Cooperation exercises designed to bolster international...

A U.S. soldier returning to Fayetteville, N.C., from Afghanistan got a surprise welcome from two dogs he saved from starvation while stationed in the war-torn country. WRAL.com, a FOX affiliate in Raleigh, reports that a charity animal-rescue program run by Internet search engine Dogpile.com reunited Staff Sgt. Daniel Barker with two dogs reportedly rescued by Barker and his fellow soldier, Adam Krause, during their 2008 deployment to Afghanistan. Barker and Krause found the malnourished puppies abandoned on the streets of Afghanistan and brought them back to their military base, where they named them Jack and Emma, the station reports. When...

Petra the swan reunited with her pedalo lover Last Updated: 1:13am GMT 29/03/2008 Petra the swan, who fell in love with a swan-shaped boat only to abandon it for a real bird, has returned to her faux friend after being cruelly dumped. Officials at a zoo in Munster, Germany, where Petra has been spending the winter, took her to a nearby lake to be with the white paddleboat. Petra the swan and her plastic pedalo lover In recent months, Petra, a black swan, had struck up a relationship with a real white swan. However, he abandoned her last weekend –...

MUENSTER, Germany - Petra the black swan has been reunited with her beloved swan-shaped paddleboat after a failed romance with a real bird. Officials at a Muenster zoo where Petra has been spending the winter took her to a nearby lake Friday and released her next to the paddleboat — shaped like a giant white swan. Petra became so attached to the boat back in 2006 that she refused to leave its side. When winter came around, she and the boat were taken into the zoo. In recent months, Petra had struck up a relationship with a real white swan....

AL ASAD, Iraq, May 14, 2007 — Deployment is a time when the support of family becomes more important to service members. Letters, phone calls and e-mails act as a connection to family, to the life left back in the states. Every now and then, a servicemember gets lucky enough to serve alongside a brother or a sister. Even rarer is the opportunity to visit and spend time with a parent who works at a different base. Spc. Marcos Zavala, a heavy equipment operator with the 618th Airborne Engineers Company deployed to Mosul, Iraq, was recently able to spend a...

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska, Dec. 15, 2006 – Christmas came early this year for the Skeen family as they celebrated what Joanna Skeen called the best gift she could ever ask for: the safe return of her husband. Staff Sgt. Michael Skeen, his wife, Joanna, and daughter, Lillian, have already started celebrating Christmas now that they’re together again after Skeen’s 16-month deployment to Iraq with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team. Photo by William D. Moss  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Skeen and his fellow 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team soldiers returned to Alaska this...

CAMP TAQADDUM, Iraq (Feb. 26, 2006) -- For men and women in the U.S. military, good-byes are one of the hardest parts of deploying to foreign lands, as servicemembers must bid farewell to loved ones. However, for one father and his son, a deployment to Iraq didn’t mean good-bye, but rather a fortunate crossing of their paths. For nearly a month, Chief Petty Officer Nestor A. Lazaga, 53, and his 22 year-old son, Petty Officer 3rd Class Mark G. Lazaga, have had the unique experience of spending time together in a combat zone while stationed together here. The younger Lazaga,...

BATON ROUGE, La. — In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard, this group of refugees stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their leader. They were holding hands. Three of the children were about 2 years old, and one was wearing only diapers. A 3-year-old girl, who wore colorful barrettes on the ends of her braids, had her 14-month-old brother in tow. The 6-year-old spoke for all of them, and he told rescuers his name was Deamonte Love. Thousands of human stories have...

<p>The mother, Luz Cuevas, had been told the child died in a fire six years ago in Pennsylvania, but she discovered the girl allegedly had been kidnapped by a family acquaintance and was living not far away.</p> <p>The child, named Delimar, was 10 days old when her mother last saw her in December 1997. Cuevas saw the girl, now 6, at a birthday party in January and was struck by the child's resemblance to her and her other children. A DNA test proved Cuevas was the child's mother.</p>