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The Obama administration's new immigration strategy, focusing more on crackdowns on employers than worker deportations, has an early test case in Minnesota.More than 1,200 workers from American Building Maintenance Co. left their jobs last month after immigration agents conducted an audit of the company -- an audit that revealed they were working illegally.

Nine months ago, the Obama administration offered banks $75 billion in taxpayer money to rework troubled mortgages.

A record number of students are applying to attend California State University campuses next fall, and officials are urging those who haven't yet applied to get their paperwork in by the end of the month.

In the five weeks since the application period opened, 266,152 students have applied to attend a Cal State campus -- an increase of 53 percent compared with the same time last year.

TAMPA, Fla. - Marine reservist Jasen Bruce was getting clothes out of the trunk of his car when a bearded man in a robe approached him.

That man, a Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.

OHENWALD, Tenn. - Most of the locals haven't heard the trumpeting or seen the massive animals that can stand 12 feet tall and weigh thousands of pounds.

Here in Hohenwald, a small city outside Nashville with a population of about 3,800, residents know world-famous elephants roam just outside of town.

But that's all they know.

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. - The New Testament instructs Christians to love their enemies.

Now a Lehigh Acres, Fla. man says he is attracting the attention of the FBI after he followed those instructions, attempting to send a dozen roses to the suspected gunman in the recent massacre at Fort Hood in Texas.

Whalers, beware -- the Ady Gil is hardly your typical environmental activist vessel.

WASHINGTON - During their tour of the U.S. Capitol, four Navajo Code Talkers were approached by tourists who wanted to shake their hands or simply say thank you.

When the group walked into the Rotunda, a tour guide led visitors in applause for the "Windtalkers," a reference to the 2002 Nicolas Cage movie based on the Code Talkers' World War II service.

WASHINGTON - Anti-abortion Democrats have reignited the national abortion wars with their victory on an amendment to House health-care legislation that would prevent women from obtaining abortions through government-sponsored insurance or any plan that receives government subsidies.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - In the latest dramatic boost to its African expansion, China is pledging $10 billion in preferential loans to Africa, along with 100 clean-energy projects and lower customs duties on up to 95 percent of African exports.