
The double standards of Europe's refugee response
CNN
At the Ukraine-Poland border, Arwa Damon sees refugees welcomed with open arms. It's a stark contrast from the way Syrians were turned away during the 2015 crisis. She writes: "We are painfully seeing that refugees are selectively welcomed, and war criminals are selectively punished. It's not just the western media that is biased; it's the western world."
The other image has superimposed itself in my psyche, created by the torrent of memories from covering the 2015 refugee crisis. Back then, crowds crushed against concertina wire on the Greece-Macedonia border. A mother cradled her baby under a plastic tarp in the pouring rain, a father held up his listless feverish little girl saying, "look at her, look at her state, in Syria she was a princess."

Frank Caprio, Rhode Island judge who drew a huge online audience with his compassion, dies at age 88
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Frank Caprio, a retired municipal judge in Rhode Island who found online fame as a caring jurist and host of ” Caught in Providence,” has died. He was 88.