Alibaba co-founder to pay $3.4B for rest of Nets, arena, say sources

The co-founder of Alibaba has agreed to buy the remaining 51 percent of the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center from Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. Two people with knowledge of the details tell The Associated Press the deals worth about $3.4 billion.

Court says US can reject asylum along parts of Mexico border

A federal appeals court’s ruling will allow the White House to begin rejecting asylum at some parts of the U.S.-Mexico border for migrants who arrived after transiting through a third country.

Greenland advises Trump it’s not for sale

“We see it as an expression of greater interest in investing in our country and the possibilities we offer,” the government said. “Of course, Greenland is not for sale.”

Putin gives pilots who landed jet in cornfield ‘Hero of Russia’ medal

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday awarded the nation’s highest medal, the Hero of Russia, to the pilot who managed to smoothly land his disabled passenger plane in a cornfield after a flock of birds hit both engines and knocked them out.

NYC police looking for man in rice cooker bomb scare

Three abandoned devices that looked like pressure cookers caused an evacuation of a major New York City subway station and closed off an intersection Friday morning.

Latino actors, writers write ‘letter of solidarity’ amid fears

Actresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria are leading a group of more than 150 writers, artists and leaders who have written a public “letter of solidarity” to U.S. Latinos after recent shootings and a massive immigration raid.

China police drills next to Hong Kong seen as threat to protesters

HONG KONG — Members of China’s paramilitary People’s Armed Police marched and practiced crowd control tactics at a sports complex in Shenzhen across from Hong Kong on Friday, in what some interpreted as a threat against pro-democracy protesters in the semiautonomous territory.

Worldwide stocks recover some ground at end of turbulent week

Global stock markets looked set to end a turbulent week on a positive note although worries about the U.S. economy and trade conflict have the potential to derail Friday’s recovery.

Trump ties US economic success to winning 2nd term

President Donald Trump sought to reassure his supporters about the state of the U.S. economy in New Hampshire, a state that he hopes to capture in 2020, that their financial security depends on his reelection.