MEXICO

Environmental watchdogs have accused a Mexico-based startup of violating international trade law that protects the endangered totoaba fish.

The head of Mexico’s immigration agency has ordered the suspension of migrant deportations and transfers due to a lack of funds.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is heading to Mexico this week, a trip announced shortly after her agency created a new strike force to help combat illicit fentanyl trafficking.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas must move a floating barrier on the Rio Grande that drew backlash from Mexico.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas must move a floating barrier on the Rio Grande that drew backlash from Mexico.

A 34-year-old Houston man and felon has been ordered to federal prison for illegally purchasing and trafficking firearms, the United States Department of Justice announced Thursday.

U.S. authorities say illegal border crossings from Mexico fell 14% in October from a month earlier, following three months of big increases.

Trae Young scored 41 points, then fed Dejounte Murray for a go-ahead 3-pointer with 31 seconds left to give the Atlanta Hawks a 120-119 victory over the Orlando Magic on Thursday night in a regular-season game in Mexico City.

The Biden administration is urging an appeals court to allow sweeping new restrictions on asylum to stay in place, warning that halting them would be “highly disruptive” at the border.

Mexico's government has laid out hurricane reconstruction plans for the resort of Acapulco that seem to give as much priority to building military barracks as re-opening hotels.

Iga Swiatek has given herself a shot at her first WTA Finals title and the year-end top ranking by eliminating No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 6-2 in a rain-suspended semifinal.

Some California entrepreneurs and farmers are betting agave could be a promising crop for the state.

Coco Gauff has overcome 17 double-faults and come back after being a game away from elimination at the WTA Finals to pull out a 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory over Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova in a round-robin match.

Mexicans in Oaxacan towns as San Agustín and San José Etla celebrate their traditional “muerteadas,” a festivity that stretches for several nights and locals regard as part of their identity.

Aryna Sabalenka’s bid to clinch the year-end No. 1 ranking has been put on hold because her WTA Finals round-robin match against Elena Rybakina was suspended in the second set by rain.

Mexicans in the state of Oaxaca are celebrating the Day of the Dead.

Mexicans are celebrating Day of the Dead, an intangible tradition borne down from pre-Hispanic cultures that is also a celebration for all the senses.

Hurricane Otis ripped through Acapulco, Mexico as a category 5 storm on Oct. 25 and has devastated many residents.

About 5,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti have set out on foot to reach the U.S., walking north from Mexico's southern border.

Hurricane Otis shredded Acapulco, Mexico, last week and tore apart the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

Mexico’s security authorities have raised the death toll from the Category 5 Hurricane Otis that struck the country’s southern Pacific coast early Wednesday to 39.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced a new government-wide strategy that will target not only fentanyl but precursor materials used to make the synthetic opioid.

Hurricane Otis unexpectedly turned from mild to monster in record time, and scientists are struggling to figure out what happened.

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Hurricane Otis has strengthened from a tropical storm to a dangerous Category 5 storm in a matter of hours as it approaches Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, where it is forecast to make landfall near the resort of Acapulco early Wednesday.

President Joe Biden is trying to sweeten his pitch for more money for Ukraine by mixing in billions of dollars for securing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Hurricane Norma made landfall near the resorts of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Saturday and has weakened to a tropical storm while moving over land.

In the music video for “Por La Familia,” a new track from Carín León and BorderKid, León is whisked away into a surrealist landscape inspired by Mexico.

Hurricane Norma is heading for the resorts of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, while Tammy grew into a hurricane in the Atlantic.

Hurricane Norma has weakened slightly but remains a major storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast.

A recent ruling by Mexico’s Supreme Court ending federal criminal penalties for abortion will eventually expand access to the procedure.

Lidia has dissipated after hitting land as a Category 4 hurricane near the resort of Puerto Vallarta.

Temperatures in the 50s Sunday morning

Lidia has dissipated after hitting land as a Category 4 hurricane near the resort of Puerta Vallarta, where one person was killed by a falling tree and two others were injured.

Temperatures in the 50s Sunday morning

Temperatures in the 50s Sunday morning

Authorities say 16 migrants from Venezuela and Haiti are dead following a bus crash in southern Mexico.

The Department of Homeland Security announced that the Biden administration leveraged sweeping executive power to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas.

New York City is challenging a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to anyone who asks for it.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he's traveling to Latin America to discourage people from seeking asylum in the city as it struggles to handle a massive influx of migrants.

The Biden administration is taking aim at the fentanyl trafficking threat, announcing a series of indictments and sanctions against Chinese companies and executives blamed for importing the chemicals used to make the deadly drug.

One of six men charged in Texas over 53 migrants who died last year in a sweltering tractor-trailer has pleaded guilty to smuggling-related charges.

Administrators in the Brazosport Independent School District have declared that last year’s Homecoming Queen is not welcome to pass the crown, a tradition, due to what she wore to graduation in May.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he has directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) to deploy additional buses to Eagle Pass and El Paso to assist in what he called a “border crisis.”

Hummingbirds are right in the middle of their migration south to Central America and Mexico

Need a vacation to the Caribbean? Carnival Cruise Line is expanding, offering a 10-day Western Caribbean cruise out of Galveston starting in 2025.

After a dip in illegal crossings that followed policy changes in May, the Biden administration is again on its heels as more asylum-seekers cross the U.S. border from Mexico.

Migrants have always come to the U.S., but the immigration system now seems strained nationwide more than ever.

A Barbie doll that honors salsa star Celia Cruz went on sale this week.

Max Verstappen has hit back at Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff’s dismissal of his Formula One record for consecutive wins and suggested his rivals might do better to draw inspiration from his achievements.

The museum is creating piñatas this week to celebrate Fiestas Patrias

A federal appeals is allowing Texas’ floating barrier on the Rio Grande to stay in place for now.

Forecasters are warning of possible flash flooding and landslides across the eastern Yucatan peninsula and western Cuba, and Florida is bracing for a possible hurricane by midweek, as a weather system off the coast of Mexico is expected to become a tropical storm by Sunday.

A bus carrying mostly Venezuelan migrants crashed into a freight truck Tuesday in central Mexico, killing at least 15 people and injuring 36, local authorities said.

A State Department official says Mexico’s government has raised repeated concerns with the U.S. about large buoys Texas put on the Rio Grande to deter migrants.

Texas has moved a floating barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border closer to American soil.

Major League Baseball has rescheduled three Sunday games in California because of the forecast for Hurricane Hilary.

U.S. border authorities stopped migrants entering the country illegally more than 33% more often in July than in June, suggesting lower numbers that followed the end of pandemic-related asylum restrictions may have bottomed out.

The Biden administration has announced a major expansion of temporary legal status for Ukrainians already living in the United States, granting a reprieve for those who fled Russia’s invasion.

Hurricane Hilary is churning off Mexico’s Pacific coast as a powerful Category 4 storm threatening to unleash torrential rains on the mudslide-prone border city of Tijuana before heading into Southern California as the first tropical storm there in 84 years.

Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press,and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer.

Mexico has closed 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts, six months after a research report warned that drug stores in Mexico were offering foreigners pills they passed off as Oxycodone, Percocet, and Adderall.

Texas authorities believe the person drowned upstream and floated into the buoys near Eagle Pass. Mexico criticized Texas’ placement of the buoys along the river.

The Pentagon is pulling 1,100 troops from the U.S.-Mexico border that it had deployed in response to a surge in migrant crossings.

Immigration advocates say an online appointment system to seek asylum at the U.S. border with Mexico is out of reach for many migrants in a lawsuit marking the latest challenge to the Biden administration’s agenda.

The number of migrant families with children crossing the southern border has nearly tripled in the past two months, according to Customs and Border Protection data obtained by NBC News, feeding concern among some senior administration officials about a potential uptick in overall migrant crossings.

Wildlife groups have long lobbied for increased protection for the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl. The agency says the mussels species are threatened by reduced flow and poor water quality in the Rio Grande.

The Justice Department is suing Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over a floating barrier that the state placed on the Rio Grande to stop migrants from entering the U.S. The lawsuit filed Monday asks a court to force Texas to remove a line of bright orange, wrecking ball-sized buoys that the Biden administration says raises humanitarian and environmental concerns.

The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus released a letter Wednesday that shares a request for the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a formal investigation into the allegations made against the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The Houston area remains a hotspot for firearms traffickers who are purchasing weapons in the United States to send to the drug cartels in Mexico.

An attorney representing the family of a Pearland man who allegedly died from carbon monoxide poisoning while vacationing in Mexico is claiming that the tragedy happened while the 22-year-old was lodging at an Airbnb property. The company, however, says they have no record of him renting a property from them.

A hidden Maya city was recently unearthed by experts at the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping at University of Houston, according to a release.

Santiago Giménez scored after an electrifying sprint in the 88th minute, and Mexico won the CONCACAF Gold Cup championship for the record ninth time with a 1-0 victory over Panama.

Nearly a thousand migrants that recently crossed from Guatemala to Mexico have formed a group to head north hoping to reach the border with the United States.

The Mexican government plans to send an inspection team to see if Texas’ buoys have crossed into Mexico’s side of the border.

The game is not going to be against the rival Mexico expected, but seven and a half months after the country’s worst performance in a World Cup in 44 years, Mexico will seek to restore a bit of its tarnished image when it plays the surprising Panama in the Gold Cup final.

Annie Park birdied seven of the last 10 holes Friday in the Dana Open for an 8-under 63 and a two-stroke lead over U.S. Women’s Open champion Allisen Corpuz, Linn Grant and Jaravee Boonchant.

Mexico's top diplomat says her country has sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. government expressing concern that Texas' plan to deploy floating barriers on the Rio Grande may violate 1944 and 1970 treaties on boundaries and water.

A federal jury convicted Juan Gonzalez-Cardebas following an 11-day trial in August 2022. He was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine and one or more kilograms of heroin, as well as possession with intent to distribute 18 kilograms of cocaine. He could also lose his status to reside in the United States.

Orbelín Pineda scored on a penalty kick in the 52nd minute, Érick Sánchez added a goal in the 87th and Mexico beat Costa Rica 2-0 to reach the CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinals.

Texas began rolling out what is set to become a new floating barrier on the Rio Grande on Friday in the latest escalation of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar effort to secure the U.S. border with Mexico, which already has included bussing migrants to liberal states and authorizing the National Guard to make arrests.

Texas has started rolling out what is set to become a new floating barrier on the Rio Grande.

United States forward Ricardo Pepi has signed for PSV Eindhoven and will stay in the Dutch league where he impressed last season.

Mexico’s old ruling party has fractured, following the loss of the last major state it governed.

A 42-year-old man in Houston has been ordered to federal prison for drug trafficking and unlawfully possessing a rocket launcher, rocket-propelled grenades, guns and ammunition, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

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Canada captain Christine Sinclair says she’s confident the Canadian women’s national team will come to a last-minute pay agreement with its federation before the players depart for the Women’s World Cup.

The Justice Department has for the first time charged China-based companies and employees with supplying chemicals needed to make fentanyl, a primary driver of an overdose crisis gripping the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday that the companies openly advertised the chemicals on social media platforms and shipped them surreptitiously to buyers, even adding molecules to evade testing.

The U.S. Justice Department has filed criminal charges against four Chinese companies and eight individuals for allegedly trafficking the chemicals used to make the highly addictive painkiller fentanyl in the United States and Mexico.

We officially know the 23 players who will represent the United States in this summer’s FIFA World Cup.

After the alert level on the Popocatépetl volcano was lowered in early June, the name of Mexico's most famous volcano might start fading from news headlines.

The United States Treasury has announced sanctions on a Mexico-based migrant-trafficking gang that supplied asylum seekers with false papers to game the process.

The U.N. says 110 million people in the world today have had to flee their homes because of conflict, persecution, or human rights violations.

Mexico's Labor Department has issued new rules requiring employers to pay for internet and provide ergonomic chairs for employees working from home.

The Big 12 Conference announced Thursday that it will launch a Big 12 Mexico, which will be the conference’s first international extension of men’s and women’s basketball, women’s soccer and baseball games.

Mexico’s most populous state has turned its back on decades of single-party rule, deciding to move forward with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s ruling Morena party.

Forty-five bags filled with human remains were found in the western Mexican state of Jalisco on Tuesday, officials said.

A relative of a Native American man who was killed by Border Patrol agents near the Arizona-Mexico border two weeks ago said she was talking to him moments before he was shot and he told her he had contacted the Border Patrol earlier in the evening to ask for help.

A court-appointed monitor said in January that child migrants held in medical isolation may be overlooked when Border Patrol stations are too crowded.