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A waiver issued by the Department of Homeland Security allows the federal government to bypass environmental regulations and begin construction immediately on stretches of the border wall in Southern California.
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Michigan couple Paul and Christy Akeo, who were detained in Cancun on fraud allegations, have been released with the help of U.S officials.
Automaker Stellantis is temporarily halting production at a plant in Canada and a plant in Mexico shortly after President Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on imported vehicles.
Michigan Rep. Tom Barrett traveled to Mexico to visit the couple that has been imprisoned for weeks. Here's what he said about the meeting.
Family members are expressing gratitude after Rep. Tom Barrett announced that he is visiting Mexico to help facilitate the release of a Michigan couple that has been imprisoned in Cancun for weeks.
A Michigan couple has been detained in Mexico amid a dispute over timeshare payments with a resort company, and now, Michigan Rep. Tom Barrett is on his way to Cancun to try and facilitate their release.
Whatever domestic economic gain comes from U.S. President Donald Trump’s new 25% tax on imported cars – and experts are skeptical – automakers around the world are bracing for a lot of pain.
New developments have emerged in the effort to secure the release of a Michigan couple who remain incarcerated in Cancun, Mexico, due to fraud allegations.
An Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation.
Mexico’s attorney general has reported irregularities in an investigation by state authorities into an alleged cartel killing site and training camp at a ranch in the western state of Jalisco where people searching for relatives found hundreds of articles of clothing and other personal effects.
The Trump administration has moved to dismiss a lawsuit against Texas over a law that would allow local police to arrest migrants who enter the country illegally.
When a group of citizens searching for missing relatives in the western state of Jalisco arrived at a remote ranch outside Mexico’s second-largest city last week on an anonymous tip, all they had to do was push open the unlocked gate.
Canada will announce Canadian $29.8 billion or $20.7 billion in retaliatory tariffs in response to the 25% steel and aluminum tariffs that U.S. President Donald Trump has leveled.
Ontario’s premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, is now charging 25% more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million American homes and businesses in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plan.
President Donald Trump granted U.S. automakers a short reprieve from stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada this week.
President Donald Trump has postponed 25% tariffs on many imports from Mexico and some imports from Canada for a month amid widespread fears of the economic fallout from a broader trade war.
Canadian government officials say Canada’s initial retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. will remain in place for now despite President Donald Trump postponing 25% tariffs on many imports from Canada for a month.
Farmers and meat producers across the U.S. can expect the new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China and the retaliation to hurt their bottom lines by billions of dollars if they stay in place a while.
President Donald Trump is granting a one-month exemption on his stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for U.S. automakers.
Two visions of the trauma of disappeared people in Latin America had a central role at Sunday's Academy Awards.
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Stocks racked up more losses on Wall Street Tuesday as a trade war between the U.S. and its key trading partners escalated, wiping out all the gains since Election Day for the S&P 500.
Costa Rica and Panama are coordinating to expedite southbound migrant transit through their countries along the same route that carried hundreds of thousands north in recent years.
Companies that depend on cross-border trade were already facing higher prices in anticipation of the tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada that took effect Tuesday.
President Donald Trump says 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada will start Tuesday, sparking renewed fears of a North American trade war.
Ongoing tariff threats from Washington and potentially sweeping government job cuts have darkened consumers’ mood and may be weighing on an otherwise mostly healthy economy.
Immigration officials are saying that anyone living in the U.S. illegally will soon have to register with the federal government, and those who fail to do so could face fines, imprisonment or both.
They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S. Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants have given up after President Donald Trump’s crackdown on asylum, and are returning to their countries they once sought to escape.
Igloo is recalling more than 1 million of its coolers sold across the U.S., Mexico and Canada due to a handle hazard that has resulted in a handful of fingertip injuries, including some amputations.
The FBI says it's discovered 2,400 records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to release thousands of classified files.
The recent decision to pause tariffs on trade with Mexico for a month has given the auto industry some breathing room, but uncertainty still looms over both short and long-term impacts.
Companies in a wide range of industries saw their stocks come under pressure on Wall Street because of tariff threats from President Donald Trump.
A new wave of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump will officially go into effect at midnight, raising costs on a range of imported goods.
President Donald Trump said this week that tariffs on U.S. neighbors Canada and Mexico will arrive Saturday.
President Donald Trump has signed 10 executive orders on immigration and issued a slew of edicts to carry out promises of mass deportations and border security.
Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says prices for Americans will go up if President Donald Trump follows through with his vow to apply sweeping tariffs on Canadian products.
President Donald Trump has signed executive orders to beef up security at the southern border that began taking effect hours after he was inaugurated.
Schools and some businesses were closed in the town of Huitzilac, south of Mexico's capital, and few people walked the streets, hours after five people were gunned down on the same street where another attack left eight dead just eight months earlier.
A U.S. official says arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in December are little changed from a month earlier.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it deported more than 270,000 people over a recent 12-month period, the highest annual tally in a decade.
Notorious drug lord Osiel Cárdenas has been returned to Mexico after serving a U.S. sentence and was quickly re-arrested and sent to a maximum security prison to face Mexican charges.
Mexico's president says much of the money gained by eliminating independent oversight and regulatory agencies will go to the army to fund a rise in soldiers’ pay.
A surprising study of temperature-related deaths in Mexico upends conventional thinking about what age group is hit hardest by heat.
A U.S. official says authorities made about 46,700 arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in November, down about 17% from October to a new low for Joe Biden’s presidency.
Mexicans are worried that threats by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to impose 25% tariffs could affect a wide range of iconic Mexican products, some of which support entire regional economies.
President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China as soon as he takes office as part of his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs.
Mexico overcame a two-goal, first-leg deficit and reached the CONCACAF Nations League semifinals with a 4-0 win over Honduras at Toluca behind two goals from Henry Martín and one each from Raúl Jiménez and Jorge Sánchez.
Mexico is facing a second Donald Trump presidency, and few countries can match its experience as a target of Trump’s rhetoric: There have been threats to close the border, impose tariffs and even send U.S. forces to fight Mexican drug cartels if the country doesn’t do more to stem the flow of migrants and drugs.
Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election instantly changed calculations for millions of migrants or potential migrants across the globe.
Cuba has been left reeling after a fierce Category 3 hurricane ripped across western portions of the island, knocking out the country’s power grid, downing trees and damaging infrastructure.
Arizona voters have approved letting local police arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the state from Mexico.
Forecasters say Hurricane Kristy has strengthened into a Category 4 storm and is expected to remain away from land as it churns in the Pacific Ocean.
Hundreds of people have turned out for the burial of Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas.
Mexico's new president has announced an agriculture plan that could make the country's food production and distribution look a lot more like it did in the 1980s.
Hundreds of people have turned out to mourn Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas.
A longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel who is facing drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court appeared for the first time before the judge presiding over the case.
A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that authorities say shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed four people.
A U.S. indictment unsealed in the District of Columbia claims that the leader of one of Mexico's most violent gangs continued to control an offshoot group, the Northeast Cartel, from inside a Mexican prison.
Back in the 19th century, migrant miners from Cornwall, in the southwest of England, brought their pastries to the Mexican mining town of Real del Monte.
A new mayor has been sworn in a city in southern Mexico where his predecessor was killed and beheaded less than a week after taking office.
Mexico has sent 660 soldiers and militarized National Guard officers to the western state of Michoacan to protect lime growers who complained they were suffering extortion demands by cartels.
Relatives have buried the mayor of a state capital in southern Mexico who was killed less than one week after he took office.
The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether to block a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against leading U.S. gun manufacturers over allegations their commercial practices have helped caused much bloodshed there.
The Republican challenger trying to flip the U.S. Senate seat in swing-state Pennsylvania says he'll press for U.S. military action in Mexico to target fentanyl trafficking networks.
Tropical Storm John came ashore on Mexico’s Pacific Coast on Thursday, coming back to life for a second landfall after its previous deadly passage through the country earlier in the week.
Vice President Kamala Harris has used her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee to try to project a tougher stance on illegal migration.
Helene became a hurricane on Wednesday and the U.S. National Hurricane Center has said that it is expected to intensify and grow in size as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico.
Forecasters are warning that Hurricane Helene will intensify into a major storm before striking Florida and further inland as it heads northward across the Gulf of Mexico.
Two major weather systems are bringing heavy rain, high winds and more to Mexico’s southern Pacific coast on one side and the Caribbean on the other.
Hurricane John fell apart as quickly as it formed but left destruction along Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, including deadly mudslides and flooding that may linger.
Forecasters have issued hurricane watches for parts of Cuba and Mexico as a cluster of storms located south of the Cayman Islands could strengthen in upcoming days as it moves north toward the U.S. The National Hurricane Center says the disturbance may become Hurricane Helene on Wednesday as it approaches the Gulf Coast.
Former President Donald Trump has repeated false claims that Chinese automakers are putting up large factories in Mexico.
