MEXICO CITY — The imprisonment of a cartel member in the U.S. has dashed hopes in Mexico for justice in one of the country’s most notorious slayings — the death of acclaimed journalist Javier Valdez, who was gunned down in broad daylight two blocks from his newspaper office in the cartel-embattled city of Culiacán. The brazen assassination…
President Trump recently called Colombia’s leader, Gustavo Petro, a “sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.” Petro, meanwhile, has labeled Trump a murderer and compared him to Adolf Hitler. But on Tuesday, the two leaders made nice — mostly — in a closed-door meeting at the White House that…
Trump H-1B Visa Overhaul: Impact on Indian Professionals and US Tech Sector A once-strategic partnership between the United States and India, long built on mutual economic benefit, innovation and people-to-people ties, is now straining under sweeping immigration and trade policies implemented under former President Donald Trump’s administration. Policies such as the drastic H-1B visa fee…
MEXICO CITY — He has called Colombian President Gustavo Petro “a sick man” and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator.” He once slammed French President Emmanuel Macron as “publicity-seeking,” and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “dishonest and weak.” President Trump is known for hurling scathing insults at world leaders. Then there’s Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum….
MEXICO CITY — Mexico has sent an additional 37 suspected cartel operatives to the United States to face justice, the country’s top law enforcement official said Tuesday, in what appears to be the latest bid to discourage President Trump from ordering a U.S. military strike against drug-trafficking targets in Mexico. The 37 suspects were dispatched in seven…
One year ago this week, a case of measles was recorded in Gaines County, Texas. It was the start of an outbreak that killed two children and sickened at least 760 people. Thousands more in the U.S. have contracted measles since. In April, the Pan American Health Organization, an offshoot of the World Health Organization,…
MEXICO CITY — Hugo Chávez called the United States “the empire,” and President George W. Bush “the devil.” Denouncing capitalism as “the road to hell,” he pushed an alternative economic model that nationalized key industries and redistributed wealth. During his 14-year presidency of Venezuela, Chávez warned of a CIA plot to kill him and steal his country’s…
MEXICO CITY — Adrián Ramírez hadn’t been to his hometown in western Mexico for more than two decades. When he finally returned there early last year after being deported from the United States, he found the place transformed. Ramírez remembered the town as vibrant. But the discotheque where he used to dance through the night in his…
As global officials confirm that 2025 was Earth’s third-hottest year on record, a new poll shows Americans are sharply divided over the role of science in the United States. A report published Thursday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that a majority of Americans want the U.S. to be a world leader in science,…
WASHINGTON — Top Danish diplomats met with White House officials on Wednesday to talk about President Trump’s repeated threats to take control of Greenland and left with the understanding that the United States and Denmark have a “fundamental disagreement” about the future of the Arctic territory. Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the Danish foreign minister, told reporters that the…