Merkel ally backs away from cap on refugees entering Germany

BERLIN (AP) — A key ally of Angela Merkel appeared to back away from his long-standing call for a cap on refugees — a major point of friction with the German chancellor.
Horst Seehofer, who leads the Christian Social Union that dominates politics in the southern state of Bavaria, called for Germany to set an upper limit of 200,000 refugees per year in response to the unprecedented influx that happened in 2015, when more than four times as many people entered the country seeking refug