Caravans: the new face of migration, with no end in sight
A 5-year-old boy rests by the roadside with his mother as thousands of fellow migrants trudge past. A woman grips her two young daughters as they flee a cloud of tear gas. A child slithers under a fence to reach U.S. soil. A man sobs in a U.S. border patrol vehicle as his dreams of a new life are dashed.
Spirit AeroSystems to add 1,400 jobs at Wichita facility
Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc, which supplies the fuselage for Boeing Co’s best-selling 737 jetliner, said on Wednesday it would add 1,400 jobs at its facility in Wichita, Kansas.
Lawmakers urge Trump administration to bolster U.S. pipeline cybersecurity
Two Democratic lawmakers urged the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday to better protect U.S. oil and gas pipelines from cyberattacks, after a report they requested detailed a lack of federal oversight of the critical conduits.
Moscow says U.S forced false confession from alleged Russian agent Maria Butina
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused the United States of forcing Russian national Maria Butina to falsely confess to what it described on Wednesday as the ridiculous charge of her being a Russian agent.
MetLife settles Massachusetts case over unpaid pensions
MetLife Inc will pay a $1 million fine to resolve claims that it made misleading statements to investors in failing to pay pension benefits to thousands of retirees it improperly treated as “presumed dead.”
Los Angeles bishop resigns over sex abuse as crisis spreads
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a bishop in Los Angeles accused of sexually abusing a minor, the Vatican said on Wednesday, in the latest case of clergy misconduct to shake the U.S. Catholic Church.
Maryland judge to weigh Obamacare case
Days after a judge in Texas declared that the Obamacare healthcare law is unconstitutional, Maryland’s Democratic attorney general on Wednesday will pursue his request that another judge rule the opposite way.
Elon Musk unveils his first Los Angeles-area tunnel
(This Dec. 18 story corrects paragraphs 2 and 17 to show that free rides were given at the event, not that there were no free rides)
Some advertisers drop Tucker Carlson after immigration remarks: Fox
A number of advertisers have dropped Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News, the network said on Tuesday, after the host said last week that immigration makes the United States “poorer and dirtier and more divided.”
Senate easily approves criminal justice legislation
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed legislation long in the making and backed by President Donald Trump to reduce sentences for certain prison inmates.
