Closure at Busy US-Mexico Border Crossing Promises Headaches
The busiest border crossing in the United States will close this weekend to the more than 40,000 cars that pass through it daily to Mexico.
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Search for Mexico Quake Survivors Enters Day 4, Some Success
Survivors are still being pulled from rubble in Mexico City as rescue operations stretch into a fourth day Friday, spurring hope among desperate relatives gathered at the sites of buildings collapsed by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake.
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Body Found at Collapsed Mexico School; Girl Still Trapped
A delicate effort to reach a young girl buried in the rubble of her school stretched into a new day on Thursday, a vigil broadcast across the nation as rescue workers struggled in rain and darkness to pick away unstable debris and reach her.
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Mexicans Dig Through Collapsed Buildings as Quake Kills 217
Police, firefighters and ordinary Mexicans dug frantically through the rubble of collapsed schools, homes and apartment buildings early Wednesday, looking for survivors of Mexico’s deadliest earthquake in decades as the number of confirmed fatalities stood at 217.
Read moreSan Diego City Council Opposes Border Wall
The San Diego City Council joined a chorus of other cities Tuesday in opposing President Donald Trump’s border wall, though its resolution lost a provision – and much of its teeth – to divest from companies involved in its construction.
Read morePowerful Earthquake Jolts Central Mexico, at Least 44 Dead
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 44 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust and thousands fled into the streets in panic.
Read more‘El Chapo’ Guzman Loses Extradition Challenge to Indictment
Refusing to dismiss the indictment of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on the basis of his extradition, a federal judge ruled Friday that Mexico alone could raise such a challenge.
Read moreFeds Sued Over Border Wall Environmental Waivers
Three national environmental groups sued the federal government Thursday over waivers the Department of Homeland Security granted to circumvent environmental and land-management laws to expedite construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall.
Read moreAbout That Wall …
The Sierra Club brought a federal complaint against the Department of Homeland Security for refusing to disclose plans for the proposed wall at the Mexican border.
Read moreMexico Rocked By Its Biggest Earthquake in a Century
A powerful, 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern coast of Mexico late Thursday, killing at least 58 people, toppling homes and businesses, and rattling buildings as far away as Mexico City, 450 miles from the quake’s epicenter.
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Freed From Mexican Prison, Life No Better in the U.S.
Life was grim for a U.S. citizen who spent nearly six years in a Mexican prison for gun running, and it’s not likely to get better in the United States, where he pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to finance a cross-border drug tunnel.
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Teen Charged With Smuggling Tiger Into US From Mexico
Federal authorities charged a California teen Thursday with smuggling a Bengal tiger cub he claimed was a cat into the United States from Mexico.
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Early Indications Suggest Tough Negotiating Ahead in NAFTA Re-Do
Strong words, starkly different positions, and a sense of uncertainty dominated the opening round of talks on Wednesday on the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Read moreFormer Texas Police Chief Accused of Drug Trafficking
Federal agents arrested a South Texas police sergeant on charges he helped transport cocaine because he needed money for his constable election campaign, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.
Read moreGuilty as Charged
Jesus Manuel Salazar Nunez, 35, faces up to life in federal prison at his Nov. 9 sentencing after pleading guilty Monday to conspiring to bring nearly a thousand kilos of drugs into the United States from Mexico.
Read more17 Immigrants Rescued From Locked Truck in Texas
Officials in Texas continue to investigate the Sunday morning discovery of 17 immigrants who were found trapped inside of a locked tractor-trailer after a relative in Mexico led police to a Flying J truck stop near the border.
Read more‘El Chapo’ Lawyers Protest Legal-Funding Obstacles
With U.S. prosecutors threatening to seize any money El Chapo would spend on a private defense team, attorneys for the Sinaloa drug lord called it unfair Monday that they would also deny him taxpayer-funded counsel.
Read morePolice Say 17 Immigrants Locked Inside Rig at Texas Truck Stop
Police in Texas acting on a tip found 17 immigrants locked inside a tractor-trailer parked at a gas station about 20 miles from the border with Mexico, less than a month after 10 people died in the back of a hot truck with little ventilation in San Antonio.
Read moreHurricane Franklin Makes Landfall on Mexico’s Coast
Hurricane Franklin roared ashore on a thinly populated part of Mexico’s central Gulf coast early Thursday and began weakening as it pounded a mountainous region prone to flash floods and mudslides with rains and heavy winds.
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Feds Freeze Guadalajara Drug Kingpin’s US Assets
In the second high-profile drug case out of San Diego in a week, the U.S. assets of a suspected Guadalajara, Mexico, drug-trafficking leader were frozen by the Department of Treasury Wednesday following his indictment by a Southern California grand jury.
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