Asia

The Department of Defense announced the move that is widely seen as a way to deter China's influence in the region amid a visit to the Philippines by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

President Trump has ordered the U.S. Navy to respond to foreign policy crises twice in less than a week, but his options in North Korea are much narrower than in Syria.

Following the dramatic increase in the number of Asians migrating to Texas, the state demographer found that a new pattern of immigration is emerging in…