Bolivia: 5 dead in clashes challenging interim government
SACABA, Bolivia — Bolivian security forces clashed with supporters of former President Evo Morales in a central town Friday, leaving at least five peo...
N. Scott Momaday remembers 1969 Pulitzer, promises memoir
SANTA FE, N.M. — Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his groundbreaking novel “House Made of Dawn,” said he’s not done...
AP Interview: Evo Morales wants UN mediation in Bolivia
MEXICO CITY — Bolivia’s Evo Morales on Friday called for the United Nations, and possibly Pope Francis, to mediate in the Andean nation’s political cr...
Bolivian interim leader says Morales can’t run in new vote
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales cannot run as a candidate in any new elections, but his political party can, the country’s in...
Plan would protect 21 coral hot spots in Gulf of Mexico
A plan to protect corals in the Gulf of Mexico is close to becoming a law, drawing cheers from environmental groups who believe leaving the corals alo...
Catholic bishops’ new anti-abuse hotline to be ready soon
BALTIMORE — A new national hotline to report sexual misconduct accusations against Catholic bishops in the U.S. could be operating by the end of Febru...
Tensions rise as Bolivia opposition leader claims presidency
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Clashes broke out in the streets of Bolivia's capital Tuesday evening when an opposition leader in the Senate declared herself the c...
Pact reached to avert government shutdown through Dec. 20
WASHINGTON — A top House lawmaker announced Tuesday that Congress will pass a governmentwide temporary spending bill to keep the government running th...
Border wall opponents in court trying to stop construction
SAN DIEGO — A federal appeals court heard arguments Tuesday on a bid to halt military funding for construction of President Donald Trump's border wall...
Supreme Court weighs whether Mexican family can sue in US
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's left-leaning justices on Tuesday appeared willing to allow a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Mexican teenager shot ...
LA’s Gómez elected 1st Hispanic to lead US Catholic bishops
BALTIMORE — Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles, an immigrant from Mexico, overwhelmingly won election Tuesday as the first Hispanic to head the U.S....
Morales says he’s headed for Mexico as clashes rock Bolivia
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Former Bolivian President Evo Morales said Monday he was headed for Mexico after being granted asylum there, as his supporters and f...
The Latest: Morales says he’s leaving Bolivia for Mexico
LA PAZ, Bolivia — The latest on the political crisis in Bolivia (all times local):
Members of community attacked in Mexico doubt they’ll return
PHOENIX — A Utah man who helped get his mother and other family members safely out of northern Mexico after nine people were killed in an apparent amb...
Offshoot Mormon community hit in deadly attack leaves Mexico
TUCSON, Ariz. — An 18-vehicle caravan carrying about 100 members of an offshoot Mormon community leaving their homes in Mexico after a violent attack ...
Last victim of Mexico border killings buried as others leave
COLONIA LEBARON, Mexico — Family and friends said goodbye Saturday to the last victim of a cartel ambush that killed nine American women and children ...
Stay or go? US residents of Mexico town torn after 9 killed
LA MORA, Mexico — U.S. citizens living in a small Mexican farming community established by their Mormon ancestors are trying to decide whether they sh...
Mexico farm town buries 3 of 9 slain Americans
LA MORA, Mexico — As Mexican soldiers stood guard, a mother and two sons were laid to rest in hand-hewn pine coffins in a single grave dug out of the ...
People of color make gains in mayoral races across the US
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — People of color made history this week by winning municipal races in places their families were once ignored or prevented from vot...
Slayings of Americans show drug war worse this time around
MEXICO CITY — There was a time when the violence of Mexico's 2006-2012 drug war shocked Americans, but barely touched them. This time around — like ev...
2 escaped murder suspects arrested at US-Mexico border
SAN FRANCISCO — Two murder suspects who escaped from a jail on California's central coast eluded an intense manhunt, traveled hundreds of miles a...
Migrants live in fear at Mexico-US border as violence flares
SAN DIEGO — A Salvadoran woman seeking asylum in the United States spends her days holed up in her cousin's cramped slum house just across the border ...
Deadly ambush shows Mexico lost control of area
COLONIA LEBARON, Mexico — When drug cartel gunmen opened fire on American women and children in northern Mexico, the Mexican Army, the National Guard ...
As violence flares in Mexico, Trump policy under scrutiny
SAN DIEGO — A Salvadoran woman seeking asylum in the United States spends her days sequestered in her cousin's cramped house in Mexico, too scared to ...
The Latest: Mexico official says suspect not tied to attack
GALEANA, Mexico — The Latest on the slaying of nine U.S. citizens in Mexico (all times local):
The Latest: 5 kids are stable after surviving Mexico attack
MEXICO CITY — The Latest on the slaying of U.S. citizens in northern Mexico (all times local):
US victims in Mexico attack from Mormon offshoot community
MEXICO CITY — The nine women and children killed by drug cartel gunmen in northern Mexico lived in a remote farming community where residents with dua...
Drug cartel gunmen kill 9 US citizens in an ambush in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Drug cartel gunmen ambushed three SUVs along a dirt road, slaughtering six children and three women — all U.S. citizens living in northe...
George Orwell New Mexico exhibit bares ‘doublespeak’ legacy
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
Demonstrators demand halt to killings of women in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Relatives of women and girls murdered or missing in Mexico marched through the capital Sunday carrying over 100 purple crosses inscribed...