• Business Insider

    Stock market today: Indexes slip after Dow crosses 40,000 for the first time

    The Dow briefly hit a historic milestone on Thursday, crossing the 40,000 threshold for the first time as investors keep rate cut hopes alive.

  • Associated Press

    The latest hot spot for illegal border crossings is San Diego. But routes change quickly

    The scenes are a daily reminder that San Diego became the busiest corridor for illegal crossings in April, according to U.S. figures, the fifth region to hold that distinction in two years in a sign of how quickly migration routes are changing. San Diego was the busiest Border Patrol sector for decades until more enforcement pushed migrants to the desert area near Tucson, Arizona, which became the top spot by 1998. Migrants were arrested nearly 128,900 times on the Mexican border in April, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday, down 6.3% from March and barely half of a record-high 250,000 in December.

  • The Canadian Press

    UAW's push to unionize factories in South faces latest test in vote at 2 Mercedes plants in Alabama

    DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union faces the latest test of its ambitious plan to unionize auto plants in the historically nonunion South when a vote ends Friday at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The voting at the two Mercedes factories — one an assembly plant, the other a battery-making facility — comes a month after the UAW scored a breakthrough victory at Volkswagen's assembly factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In that election, VW workers voted overwhelmingly