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A Chicago teen who fought for her father's release from immigration detention while she was battling stage 4 cancer has died, a representative for her family says.

Ofelia Torres died Friday at age 16, according to the family representative. The cause of death was metastatic aviolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer.

Torres grabbed the national spotlight last fall after her undocumented father, Ruben Torres-Maldonado, was detained by immigration agents during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, dubbed "Operation Midway Blitz." Torres posted a video on social media calling for his release, and was also interviewed on ABC News' "Nightline."

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Larry the cat celebrates 15 years on Sunday as the British government's official rodent-catcher and unofficial first feline, a reassuring presence who has served under six prime ministers.

The gray-and-white tabby's rags-to-riches story has taken him from a stray on the streets to Britain's seat of power, 10 Downing St., where he bears the official title Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office.

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Former President Barack Obama spoke out a week after President Donald Trump's social media account posted a video depicting him and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, condemning behavior on television and social media as a "clown show."

Obama was asked about the social media post, which was taken down following growing calls from both sides of the aisle hours after Trump shared it, during an interview with podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen posted on Saturday.

"Well, first of all, I think it's important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling," Obama said.

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Lindsey Vonn's latest surgery on her left leg that she broke in the Olympic downhill “went well” and now she “will be able to finally go back to the U.S.,” the American skiing standout said Saturday.

The 41-year-old Vonn is being treated at a hospital in Treviso after crashing 13 seconds into her run during last Sunday’s race and being airlifted off the course by helicopter.

She said Monday she had suffered a “complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly.” abcnews.visitlink.me/ZsPpN1

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a bluntly worded, but ultimately conciliatory, speech Saturday to leaders of Western nations, saying the Trump administration does not want to dismantle its traditional alliances.

However, during his speech at the Munich Security Conference, he called on European countries to adopt the administration's right-wing polices on mass migration and do more for their own defense.

"Our destiny is and always will be intertwined with you," Rubio said to prolonged applause. "We do not seek to separate but to reinvigorate an old friendship." abcnews.visitlink.me/LBaBpr

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The International Space Station returned to full strength with Saturday’s arrival of four new astronauts to replace colleagues who left early because of health concerns.

SpaceX delivered the U.S., French and Russian astronauts a day after launching them from Cape Canaveral. abcnews.visitlink.me/dQfizs

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Severe weather is headed to the deep South, from Texas to Mississippi, with damaging winds, possible tornadoes and some large hail forecast.

A powerful storm system will move out of the Rockies on Saturday and will bring the severe weather across the deep South.

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was likely poisoned with a rare lethal toxin found in poison dart frogs from South America, according to a joint statement from the UK, France, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany.

The European partners said they are confident in their determination based on analyses of samples from Navalny which confirmed the presence of the lethal toxin, Epibatidine.

"Navalny died while held in prison, meaning Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to administer this poison to him," the statement read.

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For the first time in over a century, historians say a new stop on the Underground Railroad has been discovered, fully intact, in New York City.

The site is hidden in the Merchant's House Museum, the only 19th-century home in Manhattan with both its interior and exterior preserved.

Tucked away in the walls on the second floor is a chest of drawers that visitors have walked past for decades. But inside one of the drawer shelves is a hidden passageway — just barely large enough for an upright person to fit through, leading 15 feet underground.

Museum staff have known about the existence of the passageway since the 1930s. However, they were only able to officially link it to the now-iconic Underground Railroad recently, after years of research.

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The Trump administration was ordered Friday to facilitate the return to the U.S. of the 19-year-old college student who was deported over Thanksgiving despite a court order blocking her removal.

U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns directed the government to facilitate the return of Any Lucia Lopez Belloza within 14 days.

"Wisdom counsels that redemption may be found by acknowledging and fixing our own errors," Stearns wrote in his eight-page order. "In this unfortunate case, the government commendably admits that it did wrong. Now it is time for the government to make amends."

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