U.S. President Barack Obama is talking Wednesday about the country’s contentious immigration policies in Texas, the state where thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America are illegally flooding into the United States. Obama plans to meet with local officials and faith leaders in Dallas about the influx of children, which he has described as a […]
President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $3.7 billion to address an immigration crisis that has seen tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America cross illegally into the United States. In a letter Tuesday to House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, Obama said the funding would support air surveillance and other enhanced border […]
Israeli troops have raided the homes of two men suspected of abducting three Israeli teenagers whose bodies were found Monday nearly three weeks after they disappeared. Television footage showed troops setting off explosions at the home of Amer Abu Aisheh early Tuesday in Hebron. Witnesses reported a similar operation Tuesday at the home of Marwan […]
Islamist militants, advancing across parts of northern Iraqi, have seized the city of Tikrit and forced as many as 500,000 people to flee.Iraqi security officials said the Sunni militants, who on Tuesday overran the city of Mosul, pushed southward on Wednesday, taking control of Iraq’s biggest oil refinery and of Tikrit, fallen dictator Saddam […]