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The number of children employed illegally has jumped 69% since 2018, government data shows. Jose Velasquez Castellano said he first worked on a farm when he was 8 years old. At age 13, he began working shifts as long as 12 hours each summer in a tobacco field. "My mom was going through a little rough patch financially," Castellano, who grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, after emigrating from Mexico, told ABC News. "I didn't want to be there -- I wanted to be back home playing outside like my other friends." Children aged 12 and older in the U.S. are legally permitted to work long days in tobacco fields outside of school hours in part because child labor laws are relatively lax in agriculture compared to other sectors. Castellano, an undergraduate student at Tufts University, is raising alarm about a recent rise in the use of child labor and a Republican-led effort in some statehouses to relax child labor law, allowing child ren to work longer hours with ...

Portuguese police aided by German and British officers have resumed their search for Madeleine McCann, the British child who disappeared in the country’s southern Algarve region 16 years ago ARADE DAM, Portugal -- Police on Tuesday renewed the search for Madeleine McCann, the British child who disappeared in Portugal in 2007, with officers digging and scraping the surface of land next to a dam located not far from where she went missing . About 20 officers with rakes and hoe-like tools spread out in a line and began poking and raking the soil close to the Arade dam, which is located about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Praia da Luz in southern Portugal where the 3-year-old girl was last seen alive 16 years ago. Earlier, a couple of firefighters could be seen in a dinghy on the reservoir. There were no immediate details on what progress was being made in the search. The operation, headed by Portuguese police aided by German and British colleagues, was announced Monday. Portuguese offic...