ORVAULT, France (AP) — At night, silence fell over the Louisiana immigration detention facility where 85-year-old Marie-Thérèse Ross was held. Then the wailing began. ’’Children crying, and even babies,” said Ross, the French widow of a U. S. military veteran, whose arrest last month as part of the Trump administration’s i mmigration crackdown made international headlines. Ross spoke to The Associated Press on Monday about her 16 days in federal immigration custody after being on 1...

WASHINGTON (AP) — From the moment President Donald Trump lands in Beijing on Wednesday, all eyes will be on how much of a spectacle the Chinese government rolls out, such as who lines up to greet him, what music is played and whether Chinese and American children wave flowers and flags. In China's rigidly hierarchical world of diplomacy, protocol and ceremony carry weight. The reception of Trump is shaping up to be warm and designed to flatter him, indicative of Beijing's tactical approach a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Neil deGrasse Tyson has had a lifelong fantasy of being abducted by aliens. That's right, he actually wants to be taken. “I even picture the scenario in my head: I’m sitting out there alone, and a beam of light comes down,” he says. “It’s not a spacecraft that’s hovering over me. It’s just a beam of light from space. And I just get lifted up into that beam of light, and I appear in a new place. ”America’s favorite astrophysicist has turned that lifelong into...