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Denmark has said it will spend 14.6 billion kroner (£1.6bn; $2.05bn) to boost security in the Arctic region, in partnership with its autonomous territories Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The deal includes three new Arctic ships, more long-range drones with advanced image acquisition capacity and stronger satellite capacity. "We must face the fact that there are serious challenges regarding security and defence in the Arctic and North Atlantic," Denmark's Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said. The move comes after US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to acquire Greenland, an island which has wide-ranging autonomy but remains part...

State lawmakers are offering more than 500 bills this year targeting state-mandated services, illegal aliens and the employers who hire them, responding to a growing chorus of public opinion nationwide calling for stricter enforcement of immigration laws. Led by Georgia, where benefits for illegal aliens were cut and stiff sanctions placed on employers who hire illegals, and by Colorado, which banned nonemergency services to those in the country illegally, at least 39 states have either proposed or passed similar legislation. Lawmakers have focused on constituency concerns regarding an estimated 10 million to 12 million illegal aliens now in the country,...

July 8, 2002 Stepping Up to the Plate By BOB HERBERT illie Mays told me that when he was a teenager he tried to pattern himself after Joe DiMaggio because the great Yankee center fielder was such a wonderful all-around player. But when it came to hitting, just hitting, which is the most difficult of all athletic skills, there was one man who, in Mays's view, stood alone. "Ted Williams was the best hitter," he said. If you're an amateur in reasonably good physical condition you can make a few shots from the basketball foul line. You can run a...