Jan 29 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Willscot Mobile Mini Holdings is nearing a $3 billion-plus deal to acquire McGrath RentCorp ; in a bet on the growing appetite for portable buildings and storage containers.
- Property developer China Evergrande Group has been ordered to liquidate by a Hong Kong court, bringing an end to the yearslong saga of a company whose default rippled through the world's second-largest economy.
- Three U.S. service members were killed and at least 34 were injured in an Iran-backed militia's drone strike on a base in northeast Jordan, U.S. officials said, marking the first American troops killed in hostile action since the start of the Hamas-Israeli conflict in Gaza.
- U.S. Senate negotiators defended their emerging border-crackdown proposal amid heavy skepticism from some Republicans, with the text of the proposal expected out soon.
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
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