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Mexico raids seized campuses, battle protesters
Police raided three teachers colleges on Monday in the western state of Michoacan, where dozens of students had been hijacking buses and delivery ...
APNewsBreak: Daughter of Mexican drug lord held
The daughter of one of the world's most sought-after drug lords has been charged with trying to enter the United States on someone else's passport, U.
Paul becomes major hurricane in Pacific off Mexico
Hurricane Paul rapidly strengthened into a major Category 3 storm in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico on Monday, prompting a hurricane warning for a swath ...
US knew dead Zeta leader's ID before body stolen
The U.S. government knew that a suspect fatally shot by Mexican marines was the head of the widely feared Zetas drug cartel well before the marines ...
Mexican mayor says boy shot by US agent 7 times
A teenage boy apparently killed this week by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was hit seven times by gunfire and died on a sidewalk just across the ...
Source: Mexican teen killed by US BP agent
A U.S. Border Patrol agent opened fire on a group of people throwing rocks from across the Mexican border, killing a teenage boy and eliciting outrage ...
Mexico says drug lord taken down by accident
Mexico's navy said Wednesday that its personnel had no idea they had killed the leader of the country's most-feared drug cartel until after his body ...
Magnitude-5.3 earthquake hits Costa Rica
Seismologists say a magnitude-5.3 earthquake has shaken Costa Rica. There are no immediate reports of damage. The U.S. Geological Survey says the ...
Presidential campaigns target new citizen voters
From Florida to Virginia, Massachusetts to California, candidates and political parties seeking to squeeze every vote from a divided electorate are ...
FBI: Strong signs border death was friendly fire
Friendly fire likely was to blame in a shooting near the Arizona-Mexico line that killed one federal agent and wounded another, the FBI said, noting ...
FBI: Friendly fire likely in border shootings
A preliminary investigation has found friendly fire likely was to blame in a shooting that killed one federal agent and wounded another along the ...
Texas test scandal ex-school chief gets 3.5 years
A federal judge sentenced the former superintendent of El Paso Independent School District to more than three years in prison Friday for his ...
Mexico finds 50 skulls in sacred Aztec temple
Mexican archaeologists said Friday they uncovered the largest number of skulls ever found in one offering at the most sacred temple of the Aztec ...
Mexico: Mayan ball court was celestial 'marker'
Mexican archaeologists say they have determined that the ancient Mayas built watchtower-style structures atop the ceremonial ball court at the temples ...
Mexico announces big Gulf deep water oil find
Mexico's state-owned oil company reports it has found possible reserves of as much as 125 million barrels of oil at a deep-water well in the Gulf of ...
Mexico holds 2 in connection with border shooting
Federal police have arrested two men who may be connected with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent just north of the Mexico-Arizona ...
Mexico deploys forces in death of politician's son
The Mexican government dispatched troops, federal police and criminal investigators to a violence-torn state on the U.S. border on Thursday after the ...
Frida Kahlo, her real look, on display in Mexico
The women on the cocktail circuit of the late 1930s were all curve-hugging dresses and gelled curls. Not Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo.
Border Patrol agent shot, killed on duty in Ariz.
Investigators were scouring a rugged area near the U.S.-Mexico line looking for evidence in the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent. Nicholas Ivie ...
US begins flying home deported Mexicans
The U.S. government began flying Mexican deportees home on Tuesday in a two-month experiment aimed at relieving Mexican border cities overwhelmed by ...
AP Exclusive: US car was targeted in Mexico ambush
A senior U.S. official says there is strong circumstantial evidence that Mexican federal police who fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle, wounding two CIA ...
School district rebuilds after fraudulent testing
During his sophomore year, Jose Avalos was urged by a principal to drop out of high school. The next year, his brother was told to do the same after ...
Azerbaijan defends Mexico monument to ex-leader
The Caucasus republic of Azerbaijan is defending a multimillion-dollar renovation of Mexican parks and a monument to late president Geidar Aliyev that ...
NASCAR Mexico Series to race at Phoenix in 2013
The most popular motorsports series in Mexico will make its U.S. debut next season at Phoenix International Raceway. The NASCAR Toyota Series will run ...