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In less than 24 hours, Erick rapidly strengthened from a 65 mph tropical storm to a potentially catastrophic 145 mph Category 4 hurricane as it neared Mexico’s southwest coastline between Acapulco and Puerto Escondido.
Doubling in strength in less than a day and expected to further grow further, Hurricane Erick is chugging through the ideal environment to power up quickly as it approaches Mexico's southern Pacific Coast.
A hurricane warning has been issued for part of Mexico’s Pacific coast as Tropical Storm Erick intensified.
President Donald Trump’s administration has been issuing warnings to Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans that their immigration status under a humanitarian program has changed.
Daniel Suarez has become the unofficial tour guide for all things Mexico City as NASCAR prepares to race internationally this Sunday for the first international points-paying Cup Series event of the modern era.
The Trump administration is facing a second lawsuit over the shutdown of asylum at ports of entry, a legal pathway created by Congress under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The Mexican national soccer team will change hotels in Los Angeles ahead of their Gold Cup match on Saturday because of safety concerns amid the protests against immigration raids in the city.
Tropical Storm Barbara continues to weaken as it heads northwest away from land and is likely to dissipate by Wednesday.
A salvage team is expected to arrive early next week at the scene of a cargo ship that was carrying about 3,000 vehicles to Mexico when it caught fire in waters off Alaska’s Aleutian island chain.
Sergiño Dest has been dropped from the U.S. roster for the CONCACAF Gold Cup over fitness concerns, leaving the Americans heading to the tournament with just four players who started in the team’s final match of the 2022 World Cup.
All crew members are safe after a fire broke out aboard a cargo ship south of Alaska's Adak Island.
Ángel Sepúlveda scored twice and Cruz Azul routed the Vancouver Whitecaps 5-0 on Sunday to win its seventh CONCACAF Champions Cup.
Pope Leo XIV blessed the 159 cyclists competing in the Giro d’Italia as the three-week race’s final stage began with an unprecedented ride through the Vatican gardens behind St. Peter’s Basilica.
Unlike the efforts made to raise awareness of Black history in the United States, acknowledging the presence of Black people in Mexico has received little support.
The Trump administration says it's working to return a Guatemalan man who was deported to Mexico over his fears of being harmed there.
Pato O'Ward hopes spending the morning milking a cow will help him finally clear out the negative karma keeping him from winning the Indianapolis 500.
A pack of veterinarians clamber over hefty metal crates of animals they load one-by-one onto a fleet of semi-trucks.
Mexico, Chile and Uruguay have halted poultry imports from Brazil after the country confirmed its first bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm.
Gunmen have killed a mayoral candidate from Mexico’s governing party in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz and four others who accompanied her.
Federal officials have filed charges against five people in connection to a boat that capsized a day earlier off San Diego’s Pacific coast that killed three people.
A federal judge in California has barred Border Patrol agents from arresting someone suspected of living in the U.S. illegally unless they have a warrant or a reason to believe the person might flee before a warrant can be obtained.
The Trump administration is quietly revoking the temporary legal status of people who entered the country via an online appointment app at U.S. border crossings with Mexico.
A federal judge has allowed the U.S. Department of Justice to temporarily stop funding legal education programs for people facing deportation or immigration court while a lawsuit brought by the organizations that provide the service moves forward in court.
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.
A 25% tariff on auto imports took effect Thursday and car dealerships in South Florida had not felt the impact -- except for a rush to buy now before the prices change.
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.
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.
An Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation.
A federal judge examining the Trump administration’s use of an 18th-century wartime law to deport Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador vows to determine whether the government defied his order to turn the planes around.
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.
President Donald Trump’s supporters are echoing some of the rhetoric and actions that elsewhere have preceded attacks on the judiciary as the courts deliver a series of setbacks to his dramatic attempt to change the federal government without congressional approval.
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.
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.
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.
While President Donald Trump paused planned tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico set to take effect Tuesday, the reprieve was only temporary Monday — and tariffs on Chinese products were still set to go ahead.
Companies in a wide range of industries saw their stocks come under pressure on Wall Street because of tariff threats from President Donald Trump.
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.
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.
In a story published Dec. 16, 2024, about a new method for counting international migration to the United States, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the new approach would only be reflected nationally.
Prosecutors in Texas will seek the death penalty for two Venezuelan men who are accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl after they entered the U.S. illegally.
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.
Inter Miami CF announced Wednesday that striker Luis Suárez, the club’s leading scorer in 2024, has signed a contract extension that will keep him with the team through the 2025 MLS season.
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.
