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A 10,000-strong migrant caravan appears to be headed toward the U.S.-Mexico border on Nov. 18 — the same day President Biden is scheduled to meet with Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to talk about immigration, among other things. “It seems to me that Mexico is using the caravans as leverage [against] the United States," said Tony Payan, director of the Center for the U.S. and Mexico. Payan explained why the timing could be more than coincidence.

The Baker Institute congratulates Huda Zoghbi — Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine's Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute director, and a Baker Institute board member — who is the co-recipient of the world's largest neuroscience award, known as the "Brain Prize": https://bit.ly/3qtygrB WATCH: "I went into science because I wanted to help people with Rett Syndrome. That was my inspiration," said Zoghbi in a video, with co-recipient Sir Adrian Bird of University of Edinburgh, about the $1.5 million award. Her remarks on science start at the 0.35 mark: https://bit.ly/30b8Jbp

Center for Health and Biosciences director Rola El-Serag discussed the health of military veterans.

“It’s a strange dichotomy,” fellow Jim Krane said of Saudi Arabia's plan to use oil exports to raise money for emission reduction technologies. “Its success in reaching [a net zero] goal hinges on the rest of the world continuing to use oil.”

The absence of traveler spending during a 20-month partial closure of the U.S.-Mexico border caused a $20 billion loss to the region, estimated research scholar José Iván Rodríguez-Sánchez.