President Donald Trump wants the National Guard to enhance security at the US-Mexico border because, as he tweeted, the border is becoming more ‘dangerous.’ Assessing the threat at the frontier is usually done by calculating the number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants by US border agents. Here’s what the 2017 numbers show.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On April 5, 1614, Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia. Pocahontas is the daughter of the local Native American leader, a man named Powhatan. The union ushers in an era of peace between the Jamestown colonists and Powhatan’s tribes that lasts for several years. (Portrait of Pocahontas and John Rolfe from 1850.)

Love Stories TV is what do you get when you merge reality TV and romance. It’s not technically a TV channel, but Love Stories TV is an online platform where people can watch and share professionally produced wedding videos. Every bride is the star of her special day to friends and family, but it turns out that there’s a wider audience that’s into watching the wedding videos of strangers.

Virtual reality can make your workouts more entertaining. Instead of just walking on the treadmill, you could be racing other people or being otherwise engaged in a virtual environment. But VR treadmill workouts don’t come cheap.

Giving up the right to vote is one of many things Americans would relinquish in exchange for a 10 percent pay raise, according to a new study. What about abstaining from alcohol, coffee and going to the movies? Here’s a l ist of ‘sacrifices’ Americans would make for a raise.

It’s much more than a message in a bottle. Humanitarian groups in South Korea are relying on the ocean current to carry food and information from the outside world into impoverished regions of North Korea. The aid packages launched this week contain rice, medicine, US dollars and banned information. Organizers expect the ocean’s current to carry the sealed bottles to residents living along the North Korean coast.

He was once taken hostage by Somali pirates but is now on the front lines of the battle to protect against hijackers like the ones who held him captive for two years. Former hostage Sarath Surasena has joined a program to train Somali coast guard members to protect their own waters.