The U.S. will close both its southern and northern borders this weekend as part of the government’s effort to slow the spread of the global coronavirus pandemic that has already killed more than 10,000 people worldwide.
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The United States and Mexico are working on a plan to close their border to nonessential travel due to the coronavirus pandemic, the State Department said Thursday.
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U.S. authorities announced Wednesday that they had arrested 750 people involved with the powerful Mexican methamphetamine cartel Jalisco New Generation, denting one of the world’s “most dangerous” trafficking organizations.
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A wildlife organization announced an unprecedented move in asking Mexico’s government to enforce an injunction to prevent the widespread killing of three species of hammerhead sharks.
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The Trump administration can enforce its policy of making asylum seekers stay in Mexico while their claims are decided, after the Supreme Court ordered temporary relief Wednesday.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday tailored an injunction against the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” asylum policy to apply solely to states within the appellate court’s jurisdiction – effectively California and Arizona.
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One of the murderers of acclaimed journalist and AFP contributor Javier Valdez Cardenas was sentenced Thursday to 14 years and eight months in prison by a Mexican court.
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A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday permanently blocked the Trump administration from diverting $89 million in congressionally approved military construction funding to help build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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New evidence against Mexico’s former top security official has been uncovered since he was charged with taking tens of millions of dollars in bribes to protect Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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Less than a week after federal agents extradited the son of one of Mexico’s top cartel leaders, the Justice Department has arrested the wanted criminal’s daughter, known as “La Negra.”
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For five generations, Nayda Alvarez’s family has owned the land where she has made a home in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas. It’s nearly time for Alvarez, a teacher of 22 years, to retire there, but a battle for eminent domain being waged against her by the federal government has made that future uncertain.
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The Mexican government delivered to Nigeria on Tuesday an ancient bronze sculpture seized by customs agents at Mexico City airport as its buyer tried to bring it into this country.
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Mexico’s drug war has long played out in dusty northern border cities or the poppy fields of its southern mountains, but now the killings have moved to the conservative industrial heartland state of Guanajuato, creating a strange duality: shiny new auto plants and booming foreign investment even as the state becomes Mexico’s most violent.
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A Mexican family cannot sue the U.S. border patrol agent who shot across the border and killed their 15-year-old son in Mexico, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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Appearing dazed following a whirlwind extradition to the United States five years in the making, the son of one of Mexico’s most wanted cartel leaders pleaded not guilty Friday to drug conspiracy charges.
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The son of one of Mexico’s most wanted cartel leaders was extradited to the United States where he will appear Friday in Washington on drug charges.
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Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is being investigated in a graft scandal at the country’s massive state oil company Pemex, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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U.S. authorities have arrested a Mexican citizen they say was hired by a Russian government official to locate the vehicle of a U.S. government source in the Miami area and inform the Russian of its location.
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The Trump administration said Tuesday it is waiving federal contracting laws to speed up construction of a wall at the Mexican border, moving the president closer to fulfilling a campaign promise in an election year but sparking criticism about fraud, waste and abuse.
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A Venezuelan teenager has been forced back to Mexico by U.S. government authorities who denied her claims that she was fleeing political repression and violence — after they accepted the same claims from her father.
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