Mexico is seeking the extradition from the United States of the son of a Sinaloa cartel drug lord over the 2017 murder of acclaimed journalist Javier Valdez, the attorney general’s office said Thursday.
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Hundreds of Central Americans who entered southern Mexico in recent days have been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops, shipped to detention centers or returned to Honduras, officials said Tuesday. An unknown number slipped past Mexican authorities and continued north.
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Denis Contreras, a Honduran making a second try at reaching the U.S., laid out the plan Sunday night to his fellow migrants marooned in this Guatemalan border town: First the men will go, then the families and the women traveling alone with children.
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The Department of Homeland Security has requested the Pentagon fund hundreds of miles of new and renovated barriers along the southern border this year to stop the flow of drugs.
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The Senate voted 89-10 on Thursday to send a new trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada to President Donald Trump’s desk.
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Nearly 300 rare green turtles have been found dead on the beaches of southern Mexico, killed by a red tide of microalgae caused in part by climate change, authorities said.
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Forensics officials in the western Mexican state of Jalisco are trying to determine how many victims are accounted for in 26 plastic bags of body parts found in a ravine this week, authorities said Thursday.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit on Wednesday lifted a lower court’s order that blocked the Trump administration from using $3.6 billion in military construction money for a wall on the Mexican border.
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The United States on Thursday began sending asylum-seekers to Nogales, Mexico, to await court hearings that will be scheduled roughly 350 miles away in Juarez, Mexico.
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The Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City is celebrating its second baby giraffe of the year, already as tall as a full-grown human.
Read moreA 39-year-old San Diego woman was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for trying to smuggle 450,000 fentanyl pills and other drugs from Mexico into the United States, federal prosecutors said.
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An Iowa woman who told police she intentionally ran over a teenager because she believed the girl was Mexican has been charged with another hit-and-run crash that hurt a 12-year-old boy.
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The heavy-set man swept through a curtain into the reserved area of a nightclub as his bodyguard stood nearby. In darkness, he agreed to talk about his business: handling the income from smuggling people across a 375-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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A day after impeaching him, the House of Representatives handed President Donald Trump a victory Thursday by approving a new trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
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It’s a sunny morning in Mexico City, and police officers drip with sweat as they do push-ups and squats, part of a program for overweight cops in one of the world’s most obese countries.
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A controversial painting of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata has pitted his family and supporters against the work’s artist and the LGBT community in a contentious dispute that erupted in heated protests Tuesday.
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At a stately museum in Mexico City, priceless paintings by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera share pride of place with an unruly pack of hairless black dogs: Mexico’s prized xoloitzcuintle.
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U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment Tuesday against the former leader of Mexico’s Federal Police Force who was implicated in witness testimony last year with taking multimillion-dollar bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel.
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