Maria wired $7,500 in ransom payments from San Jose, California to kidnappers in Tijuana who were holding her husband hostage. (Illustration: Michelle Urra) The wave of migration at the border is a boon for kidnappers, human smugglers, and the American businesses that handle their money.

By British stocks rose to nearly an 11-month high on Wednesday, as the Conservative Party's election of Boris Johnson to lead the party was set against a backdrop of global optimism for stocks. The U.K. FTSE 100 rose 0.6% to 7,556.86. The FTSE 100's 52-week high was 7,776.65, on Aug.

Billionaire Peter Thiel, a Facebook Inc. board member and President Donald Trump's most vocal backer in Silicon Valley, called Sunday night for the FBI and CIA to investigate Google's "seemingly treasonous" ties with China. Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, Thiel posed three unsubstantiated, provocative and leading questions that he said should be asked of Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc.