Bloomberg The US Department of Homeland Security, known for raids ending in mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, says it’s helping five “illegal aliens” recover $250,000 in back pay from a California building contractor. Their Hayward-based employer didn’t fare so well. Job Torres Hernandez, 37, was charged with illegal trafficking in a grand jury indictment unsealed and accused of failing to ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dangled the prospect of a far brighter future for North Korea if leader Kim Jong-un abandons his nation’s nuclear weapons programme after a summit with President Donald Trump in Singapore next month. Speaking alongside South Korea’s Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-Wha at the State Department, Pompeo said he thinks the US and North Korea ...

Bloomberg Italian populist leaders Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini pushed their head-to-head bargaining for a new government into the weekend, leaving the choice of premier unresolved as a court lifted a ban on Silvio Berlusconi running for public office. Di Maio of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and Salvini of the anti-immigrant League expected to meet again on Saturday, ...