Washington – The U.S. Border Patrol is working on hiring additional staff to manage the processing of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Officials said Tuesday the aim is to take the burden off uniformed agents, who can then go back into the field for law enforcement work. Border resources are stretched thin as the U.S. [...]

Jerusalem – President Donald Trump’s top Mideast advisers face skeptical audiences as they visit several locations in the region and in Europe starting Tuesday to rally support for what they have billed as a workshop on the economic foundations of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The White House is promoting the June 25-26 meeting [...]

New York – Democrat Andrew Cuomo plans to seek a fourth term as governor of New York state. During an interview Tuesday morning on WAMC radio, Cuomo said he believes he is making a difference in New York and plans to run again in 2022. If Cuomo is re-elected, he’ll be only the second person [...]

Washington – After more than a decade of rapid growth, Chinese travel to the U.S. is falling. And that has cities, malls and other tourist spots scrambling to reverse the trend. Travel from China to the U.S. fell 5.7% in 2018 to 2.9 million visitors, according to the National Travel and Tourism Office, which collects [...]

Warsaw – On a cold day in March 2017, a group of young adults stripped naked at the former Auschwitz death camp and chained themselves together to the “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate as one man plunged a knife into a sheep’s body over and over again. The two organizers of the stunt, including the man [...]

London – Theresa May, who announced her resignation on Friday as the prime minister of the United Kingdom, will be remembered as one of her country’s shortest-serving and least popular leaders. Blamed by supporters of Britain’s departure from the European Union for delivering what they consider half measures, she was loathed also by opponents of [...]

Brussels – European rabbis are demanding social networks add a kippah-wearing emoji, saying that “Our daily struggle against antisemitism starts with the small things.” Following the addition of a hijab-wearing emoji, rabbis sent a letter requesting the addition of a kippah-wearing emoji to Unicode, a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling [...]

Columbus, Ohio – States are heatedly debating whether to make it more difficult for students to avoid vaccinations for religious or philosophical reasons amid the worst measles outbreak in decades, but schoolchildren using such waivers are outnumbered in many states by those who give no excuse at all for lacking their shots. A majority of [...]

Los Angeles – MacKenzie Bezos, the former wife of Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, pledged on Tuesday to give half her $36 billion fortune to charity, following a movement founded by billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates. Bezos, whose former husband is the world’s richest man, was one of 19 people on [...]

Washington – President Donald Trump is restructuring his legal team with lawyers more at home in a courtroom than a television studio as he shifts from dealing with Special Counsel Robert Mueller to battling Democratic-led investigations in the U.S. Congress. The long-time leaders of Trump’s team – Jay Sekulow and Rudy Giuliani – remain in [...]