Illegal crossings surge in remote areas as Congress, White House weigh major asylum limits
By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — Hundreds of dates are written on concrete-filled steel columns erected along the U.S. border with Mexico to memorialize when the Border Patrol has repaired illicit openings in the would-be barriers. Yet no...
Google to pay $700M in antitrust settlement reached with states before recent Play Store trial loss
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store — the same issue that went to trial in a another case that could...Israel strikes south Gaza and raids a hospital in the north as war grinds on with renewed US support
By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces raided one of the last functioning hospitals in Gaza’s north and bombarded the south with airstrikes that killed at least 28 Palestinians, pressing ahead with their...
An earthquake in northwestern China kills at least 126 people in nation’s deadliest quake in 9 years
By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A strong overnight earthquake rattled a mountainous region of northwestern China, authorities said Tuesday, destroying homes, leaving residents out in a below-freezing winter night and killing 126 people in the nation’s...
