SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A Chinese restaurant open in Santa Cruz for almost four decades has closed its doors after a boycott and online backlash against the owner’s 2016 campaign donation to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that O’mei Szechuan Chinese Restaurant closed, perhaps permanently, after a […]

By Julie Watson Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Dozens of migrants fleeing from Border Patrol agents led authorities to a surprising discovery late last month: A tunnel under the US-Mexico border in San Diego used to bring Chinese nationals illegally into the United States. Drug cartels have built hundreds of tunnels to move drugs […]

By Josh Lederman Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. ban on Americans traveling to North Korea took effect on Sept. 1 amid concerns about the fate of those who have been detained there in the past. The U.S. said its citizens can start applying for exceptions, but few will be granted. The ban, announced […]

The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment rates rose for all major racial and ethnic groups in August as well as for the prime age group of 25-to-54-year-olds. Black Americans’ jobless rate rose from 7.4 percent to 7.7 percent as the number of unemployed climbed. The unemployment rate for Asians was also higher, though for […]

By Matthew Lee and Jill Colvin Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is poised to impose visa restrictions on four Asian and African nations refusing to take back their citizens who’ve been deported from the United States, officials said on Aug. 24. The officials said Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone would soon […]

WOODBURY, Minn. (AP) — A woman accused of beating and starving a woman she brought from China to work as a nanny in Minnesota will be deported after she spends a year in jail. Lili Huang, 36, pleaded guilty to charges of forced labor and third-degree assault. She was sentenced on Aug. 24 to a […]