LOS ANGELES / AP The vast majority of immigrant children who arrive alone at the US border are placed by the government with adults who are in the country illegally, federal data reviewed by The Associated Press show. The government has long said that it places the children with family and friends regardless of immigration status. But since more …

  The debate over how China’s economy might evolve over the next decade generally breaks down into two opposing cases. Bulls are confident that Chinese leaders will make the hard reforms needed to clean up local government debt, reform state companies, open more markets to private-sector competition and liberalize the financial sector. This should enable China to achieve another 10-15 …

  Brazilian business leaders and the opposition count on looming impeachment of embattling President Dilma Rousseff, with hope to bail out the country from a deep recession to revive the sagging economy. The economic woes Brazil is experiencing and charges against Rousseff to have illegally manipulated public accounts in order to conceal a budget deficit during an election year, have …