All along the winding Rio Grande, the people who live in this bustling, fertile region where the U.S. border meets the Gulf of Mexico never quite understood how Donald Trump's great wall could ever be much more than campaign rhetoric. Erecting a concrete barrier across the entire 1,954-mile...

Britain should stay as closely connected to Europe's common market as it can after it leaves the European Union, the trade minister of EU outsider Norway said Tuesday. "Britain is perhaps our most important economic partner. We want the future cooperation and trade conditions to be as good...

Iran said Tuesday it had sent 11 metric tons of heavy water to Oman as part of its obligations under last year's nuclear deal with world powers. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said the heavy water has been sold to an unnamed third country. Heavy water is not...

As a senator, Jeff Sessions became Congress' leading advocate not only for a cracking down on illegal immigration, but also for slowing all immigration, increasing mass deportations and scrutinizing more strictly those entering the U.S. As attorney general, he'd be well positioned to turn those...