Millions of people are leaving their homes across Latin America in numbers not seen in decades, many of them pressing toward the United States.
If Vladimir Putin had ever bothered to read Evan Gershkovich’s reporting — it’s a safe bet he didn’t, for reasons I’ll explain below — he might have thought a little harder before throwing him into prison last month on transparently bogus espionage charges.
New Mexico State Police are investigating a fatal shooting by police officers in Farmington, New Mexico, after the officers responded to the wrong house for a domestic violence call Wednesday night, officials said.
JERUSALEM — After a rare outbreak of violence along the Israel-Lebanon border, the situation across the region remained volatile Friday, when two Israelis were killed in a drive-by shooting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and at least one other civilian was killed during a car-ramming in T…
WASHINGTON — The IRS on Thursday unveiled an $80 billion plan to transform itself into a “digital first” tax collector focused on customer service, laying the groundwork for an ambitious overhaul of one of the most scrutinized arms of the federal government.
A South African pilot is being hailed as a hero after he unexpectedly came face-to-face with a venomous snake 11,000 feet in the air.
The economy in March continued its descent from dizzying heights, with employment growing at a healthy rate but one that nonetheless signifies employers are pulling back as steadily rising interest rates take their toll.
JUÁREZ, Mexico — Katiuska Márquez said she was begging for money on the streets of Juárez on Monday afternoon when Mexican migration officers took her and her family to a migration detention facility just across the border from El Paso.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two new national monuments in the Southwest, insulating from development a half million acres in Nevada that are revered by Native Americans and 6,600 acres in Texas that were once admired by writer Jack Kerouac.
There is a depressing familiarity now to the conversations I’m hearing among parents of teenagers. After the obligatory pleasantries, talk often turns to mental health. Someone’s daughter is struggling, battling body image issues. Someone’s son is sullen and lost in video games. The parental…
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said that it would take initial steps toward challenging a ban that Mexico has placed on shipments of genetically modified corn from the United States, restrictions that have rankled farmers and threatened a profitable export.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will submit his latest budget request to Congress on Thursday, offering what his administration says will be $2 trillion in plans to reduce deficits and future growth of the national debt.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will submit his latest budget request to Congress on Thursday, offering what his administration says will be $2 trillion in plans to reduce deficits and future growth of the national debt.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration, keeping a watchful eye on an outbreak of avian influenza that has led to the deaths of tens of millions of chickens and is driving up the cost of eggs — not to mention raising the frightening specter of a human pandemic — is contemplating a mass vaccina…
I suppose all contemporary young politicians dream of meeting their moment. At the enthusiastic dawn of their politico careers, they entertain a fantasy that some day, as a great historical challenge looms into view, their future selves will rise to the occasion — and masterfully dodge it!
In a bid to prevent a surge of migrants at the southern border when a pandemic measure is lifted in May, the Biden administration on Tuesday announced its toughest policy yet to crack down on unlawful entries.
From California to Texas, border agents are increasingly seizing a surprising type of contraband from Mexico: eggs.
LOS ANGELES — It was a party to celebrate the Lunar New Year, and dance students gathered at a beloved studio in the heart of Monterey Park, California, once marketed as a city of dreams for Chinese immigrants newly arrived in America.
WASHINGTON — Investigators for the Justice Department on Friday seized more than a half-dozen documents, some of them classified, at President Joe Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware, after conducting a 13-hour search of the home, the president’s personal lawyer said Saturday evening.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, said Friday that it planned to cut 12,000 jobs, becoming the latest technology company to reduce its workforce because of concerns about a broader economic slowdown, after a hiring spree during the pandemic.
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More than 2,000 miles from New York City, Mayor Eric Adams stood outside a church in El Paso on Sunday and told a group of migrants that he would fight for them to be able to work and to “experience the American dream.”
The president said he would travel Sunday to El Paso, which Republicans have been calling for him to do since he took office.
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities captured a son of drug lord El Chapo in an early morning operation in Culiacán, a northwestern city that has long been the home base of the Sinaloa cartel, according to three Mexican government officials.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Up and down the southern border, officials in the United States watched as thousands of migrants in Mexico waited.
The arrival of up to 1,000 migrants, the latest big group to have crossed the border, was one of the largest single crossings in recent years in West Texas, which has seen a surge in migration.
SAN ANTONIO — A county sheriff in Texas announced Monday that he had opened a criminal investigation into flights that took 48 migrants from a shelter in San Antonio to the island resort of Martha’s Vineyard last week.
WASHINGTON — For the first time, the number of arrests of immigrants along the southwestern border exceeded 2 million in one year, according to newly released government data, continuing a historic pace of immigrants coming to the country without legal permission.
CELAYA, Mexico — The butcher had been killed and no one knew why. The execution occurred in broad daylight as he worked in a family-owned restaurant, one of many murders that go unsolved every week in Celaya, among Mexico’s most dangerous cities.
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Twisted tree trunks were plowed into high piles along a slash of freshly cut jungle, like thousands of discarded matchsticks as far as the eye could see. This path of deforestation in southern Mexico was recently cleared to make way for an ambitious government proj…
Beto O’Rourke, a former congressman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who is running to unseat Greg Abbott in the tightening race for Texas governor, said Sunday that he would be sidelined from campaigning because of a bacterial infection.
The Biden administration plans to request consultations with the Mexican government over energy policies that the United States believes have hurt American companies, an action that could result in punitive tariffs on Mexico if attempts to resolve the dispute fail, the administration said We…
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The IRS said Thursday that its commissioner, Charles Rettig, had asked the inspector general who oversees tax matters to investigate how James Comey, the former FBI director, and his deputy, Andrew McCabe — both perceived enemies of former President Donald Trump — came to be faced with rare,…
DALLAS — When Beto O’Rourke interrupted a news conference in Uvalde to criticize Gov. Greg Abbott, Jason Smith bristled.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Russia has bombed, blockaded and plundered the grain production capacity of Ukraine, which accounts for one-tenth of global wheat exports, resulting in dire forecasts of increased hunger and of spiking food prices around the world.
WASHINGTON — In the sprawling distances of South Texas, sheriff’s deputies, local and county police officers, Texas Rangers and Highway Patrol troopers, U.S. Border Patrol agents, immigration officers and other members of law enforcement work together on a daily basis.
ARGYLE, Texas — His famous name shadows George P. Bush, the only member of the dynastic political clan now in public office, as he enters the final days of an uphill campaign to unseat Texas’ attorney general.
LAREDO, Texas — Just a month after President Joe Biden took office, pledging to roll back Trump-era policies in an attempt to take a more humane approach to immigration, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from South Texas, began to sound an alarm.
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Twenty years ago, Amelia Lopez Patrykus stood outside Sacred Heart Catholic Church, waiting for a free meal and groceries. The line was just blocks from the Rio Grande, separating Mexico from her new home in the United States.
On all but three Sunday afternoons since last Easter, Bob Guerra — a Catholic deacon — has carefully packed his favorite crucifix, a Spanish-language Bible, hundreds of Communion wafers secured in Ziploc bags and other liturgical items into a plastic storage box.
After an insect bite on his back became infected, David Donner, a retired truck driver in rural Alabama, waited six hours in a packed emergency room with his wife, before coronavirus vaccines were widely available. A few days later, they both began experiencing the telltale symptoms of COVID-19.
If you dread tax day every year, here’s a bit of good news: Your tax burden probably will lighten when you retire.
Last year may have felt like nothing more than an extension of 2020 — a slog of Zoom meetings, testing lines and will-we-or-won’t-we return to office plans. But 2021, the first full year of the pandemic, may look different when it comes to your taxes.
The Biden administration is expected to announce plans this week to lift an emergency public health order that has restricted immigration at U.S. land borders since the beginning of the pandemic, according to people familiar with the planning.
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