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NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) -- Daredevil Nik Wallenda began his attempt Friday night to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Softening his rhetoric on immigration, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that the status of younger illegal immigrants was important and should be addressed with legislation. He would not say if he would reverse President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some who came to the U.S. as children....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An associate at a lobbying firm tapped to bring a Walmart store to downtown Los Angeles has left the firm after she posed as a reporter at a news conference held by a labor group that opposed the big-box store....

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A former Army weapons expert wanted for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend killed himself with a gunshot to the head, quelling the risk of more bloodshed and silencing perhaps the only voice that might have answered the central question: Was a break-up enough to cause a gifted trauma surgeon widely beloved as a lifesaver to end two lives in a spasm of violence?...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A former Army weapons expert wanted for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend killed himself with a gunshot to the head, quelling the risk of more bloodshed and silencing perhaps the only voice that might have answered the central question: Was a break-up enough to cause a gifted trauma surgeon widely beloved as a lifesaver to end two lives in a spasm of violence?...

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Carlotta grew into a powerful Category 2 hurricane on Friday as it neared Mexico's southern Pacific coast, where it is expected to brush the resort town of Puerto Escondido and then lash Acapulco....

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California lawmakers passed a $92 billion budget Friday to keep their paychecks coming, but they left welfare cuts and other difficult issues unresolved with Gov. Jerry Brown....

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) -- Paraguay deployed its army Friday to resolve a violent land dispute in a remote northern forest reserve after 17 people were killed in gunbattles between police and landless farmers....