The Pentagon will deploy roughly 1,500 more active duty soldiers to the southern border to support President Donald Trump's expanding crackdown on illegal immigration, a U.S. official said Friday.

The Pentagon has been scrambling to put in motion Trump’s executive orders signed shortly after he took office on Jan. 20.

HONOLULU – Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday. He was 98. He died ...