U.S. border arrests decline amid increased enforcement in Mexico Arrests for crossing the U.S. border illegally fell slightly in March, authorities said, bucking a usual spring increase amid increased immigration enforcement in Mexico. Read more on NPR

Iranian commandos seize an Israeli-linked container ship near Strait of Hormuz Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled down from a helicopter onto a container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel as tensions in the region heightened. Read more on NPR

5 people and a suspect killed in a Sydney shopping center stabbing attack, police say A man began stabbing people at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, leaving multiple people including a small child injured, police said. Read more on NPR

This Pennsylvania county picks presidents. Here’s what it can tell us about 2024 Erie County, Pa., is one of just a handful of places that boomeranged from supporting Obama in 2008 and 2012, to Trump in 2016, to Biden in 2020. It’s worth watching in 2024. Read more on NPR

Wisconsin’s ‘Mad City’ is a rational choice for Biden’s appeal to youth It is not much of an exaggeration, if it is one at all, that college towns are to the Democrats today what factory towns were through most of the 20th century. Read more on NPR