REUTERS - Assane Diallo is making final preparations for a journey he knows could cost him his life: one thousand miles across open ocean from Senegal to the Canary Islands in a 50-foot wooden boat held together with rusty nails.

NEWS.COM - A LAST ditch battle to avert a looming US government shutdown moved to the Senate overnight, where Democrats angered by the collapse of immigration talks have vowed to block a stopgap funding bill.

AP - President Donald Trump, on the defensive in the wake of recent disparaging comments about Haiti and African nations that have revived questions about whether the leader of the world's melting pot is a racist, declared Sunday that he is not one.