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LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prince Harry touted the U.K.

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico – Hundreds of Central American migrants waded across the Suchiate River into southern Mexico on Monday in a new test of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Central America strategy to keep them away from the U.S. border.

Some scuffled with national guardsmen on the riverbank while others slipped through Mexican lines and trudged off on a rural highway in small groups.

ATLANTA – Against the backdrop of a presidential election year, Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday found leaders still wrestling over how to best embody the slain civil rights leader.

In Atlanta, Republicans told a sometimes cool crowd at Ebenezer Baptist Church, King’s onetime church, that they were honoring King’s legacy of service and political empowerment.

RICHMOND, Va. – Tens of thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday to protest plans by the state's Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation – a move that has become a key flash point in the national debate over gun violence

The size of the crowd and the expected participation of white supremacists and fringe militia groups raised fears that the state could see a repeat of the violence that exploded in 2017 in Charlottesville.

BEIJING – The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus, a development that raises the possibility that it could spread more quickly and widely.

Team leader Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert, said two people in Guangdong province in southern China caught the virus from family members, state media said.

CHICAGO – When a police detective said last week that a man suspected of strangling a suburban Chicago teen in 1976 may have killed as many as a dozen girls and young women, the question that screamed louder than all others was: How did nobody notice?

Today, as Lisle Police Detectives Chris Loudon and detectives in other communities where Bruce Lindahl lived try to retrace his steps, what is emerging is a terrifying murder mystery created by a man Loudon describes as a serial killer, a monster hiding in plain sight.

The march was one of many around the country on January 18, 2020 to commerate the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, D.C.

Husmann Elementary School in Crystal Lake has entered a $200,000 national education contest, hoping to land one of the 19 prizes awarded to recognize "the most unique and inventive K-12 program," according to Crystal Lake Elementary School District 47.

Husmann submitted an online application for the annual Follett Challenge, and submitted a short video to promote its program for the chance to win 10 prizes, valued at $5,000 each.

Just when the McHenry County region had dug out of the snow, another round is in the forecast.

Chances of snow will begin late Wednesday night into Thursday and could continue on and off into Saturday, National Weather Service Chicago meteorologist Kevin Donofrio said.

"It looks like this could be a prolonged period of somewhat lighter snow," Donofrio said.

Overnight lows during this time will be in the mid to upper 20s, he said.

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SPRINGFIELD – In presidential primary elections, it’s all about the delegates.

Delegates are the chosen representatives that attend each party’s nominating convention and give their support to a specified candidate.

A Democratic candidate this year will need 1,990 of 3,979 pledged delegates at the party’s national convention to receive the nomination on the first ballot, while any subsequent ballots will require 2,376 of all 4,750 delegate votes.

Republicans require a majority