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Buffalo Shooting Latest Example of Targeted Racial Violence

For many Black Americans, the Buffalo shooting has stirred up the same feelings they faced after Charleston and other attacks: the fear, the vulnerability, the worry that nothing will be done politically or otherwise to prevent the next act of targeted racial violence.

  • May 16, 2022
  • 5:39 PM

Coast Guard Ends Search After Rescuing 38 Near Puerto Rico

The U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday that it suspended the search for potential survivors of a capsized boat near Puerto Rico after finding 11 bodies and rescuing 38 migrants from a vessel that had carried an estimated 60 to 75 passengers.

  • May 16, 2022
  • 3:04 PM

Puerto Rico Governor Rejects Budget in New Clash With Federal Control Board

Puerto Rico’s governor announced Thursday that he was rejecting a proposed $12.4 billion budget filed by a federal control board overseeing the island’s finances and would submit his own version as the U.S. territory emerges from bankruptcy.

  • May 13, 2022
  • 1:07 PM

As Others Are Blocked, Colombians Reach US Through Mexico

Colombians were stopped at the border more than 15,000 times in March, up nearly 60 percent from February and nearly 100-fold over last year, according to CBP figures. Many fly to Mexico City or Cancún and take a bus or another plane to border towns before crossing into the U.S.

  • May 12, 2022
  • 3:42 PM

Salvador Man Sues Claiming Wrongful Deportation by ICE

A Salvadoran man who claims he was jailed, beaten, and tortured after being wrongfully deported from the United States filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the federal government, seeking damages for his treatment. José Daniel Guerra-Castañeda, 25, has since been returned to the United States and lives in Massachusetts.

  • May 11, 2022
  • 12:32 PM

1 in 3 Fears Immigrants Influence US Elections: AP-NORC Poll

With anti-immigrant rhetoric bubbling over in the leadup to this year’s critical midterm elections, about one in three U.S. adults believes an effort is underway to replace U.S.-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gains.

  • May 9, 2022
  • 5:14 PM

Explosion Damages Hotel in Cuban Capital; 8 Deaths Reported

A powerful explosion seriously damaged a hotel in the Cuban capital on Friday, and officials reported at least eight people had died.

  • May 6, 2022
  • 1:56 PM

US Quietly Expands Asylum Limits While Preparing to End Them

The Biden administration has begun expelling Cubans and Nicaraguans to Mexico under pandemic-related powers to deny migrants a chance to seek asylum, expanding the use of the rule even as it publicly says it has been trying to unwind it, officials said Wednesday.

  • May 5, 2022
  • 5:05 PM

As US Poised to Restrict Abortion, Colombia, Mexico, Other Nations Ease Access

As women in the United States find themselves on the verge of possibly losing the constitutional right to abortion, courts in many other parts of the world have been moving in the opposite direction.

  • May 5, 2022
  • 1:52 PM

Report: About 6M Adults Identify as Afro-Latino in the US

About 6 million adults in the United States identify as Afro-Latino, a distinction with deep roots in colonial Latin America, according to a new report by Pew Research Center.

  • May 4, 2022
  • 10:44 AM

Mexico Relocates Migrant Camp; Haitians Appear at Border

Mexican authorities said Tuesday they have relocated a migrant camp that sprung up in a park in the border city of Reynosa, moving about 2,000 people from Central America and Haiti to a shelter in the city, across the border from McAllen, Texas.

  • May 3, 2022
  • 4:40 PM

Report: Draft Opinion Suggests High Court Will Overturn Roe

WASHINGTON (AP) — A draft opinion circulated among Supreme Court justices suggests that earlier this year a majority of them had thrown support behind overturning the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a report published Monday night in Politico. It’s unclear if the draft represents the court’s final word on the matter.

  • May 2, 2022
  • 10:15 PM

Migration a Top Focus for Biden Call With Mexican President

By JOSH BOAK and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden planned to discuss efforts to address the unprecedented flow of migration along the U.S. southern border in a Friday afternoon call with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “I look forward to discussing our vision for the Ninth Summit of the […]

  • Apr 29, 2022
  • 2:08 PM

Mexico President Proposes Dramatic Electoral Reforms

By MARIA VERZA, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government on Thursday proposed a dramatic overhaul of the nation’s electoral system and the agency that oversees it—one of the country’s most trusted institutions. It would reduce the size of Congress and state legislatures while having the federal elections board chosen by voters, potentially adding […]

  • Apr 29, 2022
  • 9:48 AM

US Preps for Even Busier Border Amid Lifting of Health Order

A Customs and Border Protection vehicle waits for a group of Nicaraguan migrants as they walk towards the U.S. border to turn themselves in and ask for asylum, from Algodones, Mexico, December 2, 2021. The Biden administration released a plan Tuesday to deal with an increase in already historic numbers of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico […]

  • Apr 27, 2022
  • 1:41 PM

Melissa Lucio’s Execution Delayed by Texas Appeals Court

By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas appeals court on Monday delayed the execution of a woman amid growing doubts about whether she fatally beat her two-year-old daughter in a case that has garnered the support of lawmakers, celebrities, and even some of the jurors who sentenced her to death. The […]

  • Apr 25, 2022
  • 2:48 PM

Honduras Ex-President Hernández to Face Charges in US Court

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was expected to make a virtual appearance in federal court in New York on Friday to face drug trafficking and weapons charges after he was arrested in Honduras and extradited overnight to the United States.

  • Apr 22, 2022
  • 12:51 PM

Court Upholds Puerto Ricans’ Exclusion From Benefits Program

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has upheld the differential treatment of residents of Puerto Rico, ruling that Congress was within its power to exclude them from a benefits program that’s available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

  • Apr 21, 2022
  • 12:17 PM

US to Welcome Ukraine Refugees But No Longer Through Mexico

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is making it easier for refugees fleeing Russia’s war on Ukraine to come to the United States from Europe while trying to shut down an informal route through northern Mexico that has emerged in recent weeks.

  • Apr 21, 2022
  • 12:00 PM

Mexico’s Electricity Sector Rankled by Doubt and Legal Chaos

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s efforts to reshape Mexico’s electricity sector to favor the state-owned power company have spurred hundreds of lawsuits and sown a level of uncertainty that businesspeople say is costing jobs and private investment.

  • Apr 20, 2022
  • 3:13 PM

Cuba Says It Will Attend Migration Talks With the US

Cuban authorities said Tuesday that migration talks with the United States will take place this week, the first in four years since the hardening of relations between both countries and amid a sustained increase in arrivals of Cuban citizens at the southern border of the U.S.

  • Apr 19, 2022
  • 5:27 PM

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