Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy
The Republican senator who gave the partyโs response to President Joe Bidenโs State of the Union address used a harrowing account of a young womanโs sexual abuse to attack his border policies, but the rapes did not happen in the U.S. or during the Biden administration.
Mexican president suggests US talks on migration and drugs may suffer after drug money allegations
Mexico's president has suggested that talks with the U.S. government on migration and drug trafficking could suffer after media reports of a U.S. investigation into alleged drug money donations for his 2006 campaign.
Bullfighting resumes in Mexico City before a full crowd while activists protest outside
With protests outside a full arena, bullfights have resumed in Mexico City after the countryโs highest court temporarily revoked a local ruling that sided with animal rights defenders and suspended the events for more than a year and a half.
Migrant caravan slogs on through southern Mexico with no expectations from a US-Mexico meeting
A caravan of thousands of migrants continues to trudge through southern Mexico, with some saying they expect nothing good from a planned meeting between American and Mexican officials about the migrant surge at the U.S. border.
Christian conservatives flock to former telenovela star in Mexicoโs presidential race
While most Mexican politicians refrain from clarifying where they stand on religion, abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, former telenovela actor and right-wing activist Eduardo Verรกstegui prays on TikTok and claims that getting closer to God changed the course of his life.
China's Xi is courting Indo-Pacific leaders in a flurry of talks at a summit in San Francisco
Chinese President Xi Jinping is expanding his diplomatic efforts to build more partnerships with Indo-Pacific leaders after his meeting with President Joe Biden at a time of intensifying competition with the United States.
'Extraterrestrials' return to Mexico's congress as journalist presses case for 'non-human beings'
The lower chamber of Mexicoโs congress has once again turned to spectacle, giving hours of its time to a controversial character pressing the case for โnon-human beingsโ he said were found in Peru.
Hurricane Otis survivors search for friends and necessities in devastated Acapulco
Survivors of a Category 5 storm that killed at least 27 people as it devastated Mexicoโs resort city of Acapulco are searching for acquaintances and necessities and hoping aid will come quickly in the wake of Hurricane Otis.
Hurricane Otis unleashes massive flooding in Acapulco, triggers landslides before dissipating
Hurricane Otis ripped through Mexicoโs southern Pacific coast as a powerful Category 5 storm, unleashing massive flooding in the resort city of Acapulco, ravaging roads and leaving large swaths of the southwestern state of Guerrero without power or cellphone service.
Female Mexican gray wolf released into wild in Arizona in move to help wolf's recovery
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a female Mexican gray wolf has been returned to the wilds of Arizona after she was found wandering in northern New Mexico outside a zone created for recovery of her subspecies.
Mexico president's ruling party forecast to win governorship of country's most populous state
A quick-count sampling of votes for governor of Mexicoโs most populous state suggested a victory late Sunday for the candidate from the governing party of President Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obrador, which would end nearly a century of uninterrupted rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
More sanctions for deadly fentanyl if bill becomes law
Over the course of a year, the U.S. Treasury Department has used the hammer of its sanctions powers to impose wide-ranging financial restrictions on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine, turning Russia into the most sanctioned country in the world.
Mexican judge orders five held on homicide in migrant fire
A Mexican judge ordered that three Mexican immigration officials, a private security guard and a Venezuelan migrant be held for investigation in connection with a fire last week at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico that killed 40 migrants.