New World

The launch window for the “Owl New World” satellite deployment mission opens on Oct.

The story of American citizenship began precisely when America itself began—legally, officially—in July 1776, when 13 New World colonies bravely united to declare their joint independence from Great Britain.

Simultaneously, broad nativist fear of immigrants, and their labor, led to 1921 and 1924 acts creating restrictive quota systems basically eliminating immigration from anywhere but northwest Europe and the New World.

I would be Aladdin in “A Whole New World,” and I leaned into it.

California health officials warn that the New World Screwworm could arrive in California from an infested traveler or animal, or from the natural travel of the parasitic flies.