Colombia’s conflict spills over to museum of memory
BOGOTA, Colombia — On a vacant grassy lot squeezed between several smoggy highways lies the property where Colombia’s government hopes to build a larg...
In New Jersey, a slow-motion evacuation from climate change
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. — Housing is in high demand in the heavily populated northeastern United States. But in Woodbridge, New Jersey, the state has bought ...
Buzz over Venezuela’s Guaido fades as Maduro holds firm
CARACAS, Venezuela — Tour operator Alejandro Palacios joined hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protesting in the streets early this year, wanting t...
Mexican wrestlers thrill public at historic Metro station
MEXICO CITY — Tinieblas, one of the grandmasters of Mexican wrestling, looked on from a stage over the weekend as lucha libre wrestlers put on a free ...
Police: 63-vehicle pileup in Virginia results in injuries
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A pileup involving more than 60 cars on a major interstate in Virginia on Sunday morning injured dozens of people, some critically...
Second Amendment Sanctuary push aims to defy new gun laws
BUCKINGHAM, Va. — A standing-room only crowd of more than 400 packed the meeting room, filled the lobby and spilled into the parking lot recently in r...
DHS watchdog finds no wrongdoing in deaths of 2 migrant kids
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog found no wrongdoing or misconduct by immigration officials in the deaths of two m...
After impeachment, House bestows big trade victory on Trump
WASHINGTON — One day after its historic impeachment votes, the Democratic-led House gave President Donald Trump an overwhelming bipartisan victory Thu...
30 years after US invasion, Panamanian families seek answers
PANAMA CITY — “Remember to pick up the children early, because today I can’t do it.”
What Crackdown? Migrant smuggling business adapts, thrives
HERMOSILLO, Mexico — The heavy-set man swept through a curtain into the reserved area of a nightclub as his bodyguard stood nearby. In the darkness, h...
Puerto Rico cockfighters go to ring in federal ban defiance
TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico — Felipe Espinal walked into his cockfighting establishment Wednesday night in the northern town of Toa Baja and held up a white...
In a first, Peruvian with Down syndrome runs for parliament
LIMA, Peru — Bryan Russell has Down syndrome and does daily speech exercises, putting pens and corks in his mouth to help build up low muscle tone the...
European planet-studying mission launches from South America
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A European spacecraft launched from South America Wednesday on a three-year mission to study planets in other solar systems.
Die-hard Venezuelan soccer fans defy political divide
Venezuela is the only South American country where baseball and not soccer is the No. 1 sport. Still, a group of fans calling themselves the “Red Demo...
Democrats lay out case for Wednesday Trump impeachment vote
WASHINGTON — House Democrats laid out their impeachment case against President Donald Trump on Monday, a sweeping report accusing him of betraying the...
Mexico reaffirms rejection of US labor inspectors
MEXICO CITY — Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Monday he does not feel tricked by the insertion of a provision for labor inspectors in le...
Patients rally in Ecuador for legal use of medical cannabis
QUITO, Ecuador — Unrelenting pain in her hips and weeks of insomnia left Nelly Valbuena desperate for relief from her metastatic breast cancer.
Independent women’s groups say 2019 year of progress in Cuba
HAVANA — For 60 years, Cuba's communist government has monopolized virtually every aspect of life on the island, including dozens of state-controlled ...
House vote, and on to the Senate: What’s next in impeachment
WASHINGTON — The House will vote on the impeachment of President Donald Trump this week after spending the past three months investigating the preside...
Turbulence shakes Democrats going into final debate of 2019
CLINTON, Iowa — Seven Democratic presidential candidates will stand on stage this week in Los Angeles, a pool of survivors who have withstood almost a...
Mexico objects over US bill on ratifying trade pact
MEXICO CITY — Just days after a landmark agreement on a trade pact to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico objected Saturday to leg...
‘Wild week’ as Washington works amid impeachment
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi don’t see eye-to-eye on much these days, but in the throes of impeachment, they’re ...
Protests subside, but economic aftershocks rattle Haitians
Port-au-Prince — The flaming barricades are mostly gone, protesters have largely dissipated and traffic is once again clogging the streets of Haiti’s ...
No malarkey: Biden courts Iowans, balances national campaign
STORM LAKE, Iowa — Minutes after Joe Biden met Cathy Buxengard, he commandeered her cellphone to talk with her 99-year-old mother about her service as...
Asylum-seekers who crossed in Arizona returned to Mexico
PHOENIX — The U.S. government said Friday it had sent nine Venezuelans — including two families — back to Mexico after they tried to make an asylum cl...
A locker, a chirp: How tiny clues help solve child sex cases
FAIRFAX, Va. — It was the odd-looking locker handles that caught their eye.
Texas judge orders border wall fundraiser not to build
HOUSTON — A local judge in South Texas has ordered supporters of President Donald Trump not to build their planned private border wall on a section of...
Bolsonaro vs NGOs: Amazon town becomes ground zero for spat
ALTER DO CHAO, Brazil — A sleepy Amazon town has become the flashpoint for the growing hostility between Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro a...
Maduro’s foes balk at UN-backed deal to rebuild power grid
MIAMI — A proposal to rebuild Venezuela’s collapsed power grid with the help of the United Nations is proving a political hot potato for Nicolás Madur...