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Mexico had launched enforcement operations for rounding up immigrants transiting illegally toward the U.S. border, and stepped up its efforts along its border with Guatemala.

Peruvians were preparing to head to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election marked by uncertainty due to widespread public apathy following decades of graft and mismanagement and a possible low turnout because of the COVID19 pandemic.

Hearings on whether to close a witness tampering investigation into former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will remain suspended pending the decision of a tribunal that will consider adding additional victims to the case, a judge said on Friday.

The State Department on Friday unveiled new rules for U.S. government contacts with Taiwan that are likely anger China but appear to reimpose some restrictions that had been lifted by the Trump administration.

Ireland added the United States, Canada, Belgium, France and Italy to its list of countries where arrivals will be subject to mandatory hotel quarantine, tightening some of Europe's toughest travel restrictions to stop the spread of COVID19.

The family of the 13yearold boy who was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer last month will watch the video of the shooting next week, the family's attorneys said Friday.

The reigning Mrs. World on Friday relinquished her title while defending her decision to pull the crown off the head of the winner of this year's Mrs. Sri Lanka, whom she falsely claimed to be a divorcee and unqualified to take part in the contest.

The coronavirus outbreak sent profits plunging at Atlantic City's casinos by more than 80% last year, according to figures released Friday by New Jersey gambling regulators.

One person was killed and four people were wounded Thursday in a shooting at a cabinetmaking business in Bryan, Texas, police said, and the shooter was not in custody.

In the largest program of its kind, New York lawmakers have created a $2.1 billion fund to aid workers who lost jobs or income during the coronavirus pandemic but were excluded from other government relief programs because of their immigration status.

A Southern California man who killed his wife and propped up her body on a sofa as her children opened Christmas presents was convicted Wednesday of seconddegree murder.

The Marine Corps has launched a probe looking at the readiness of its troops before they participated in an exercise that ended in tragedy with the sinking of a seafaring tank off the Southern California coast that killed eight Marines and one sailor last...

Facebook said Tuesday it has removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to an Iranian exile group and a troll farm in Albania.

After a Confederate monument was stolen from an Alabama cemetery last month, a group now claiming responsibility is threatening to turn the ornate sculpture of a chair into a toilet.

A lawyer for the family of a homeless Black man fatally shot last month by a San Francisco Bay Area police officer has said that a video serves as proof that the shooting was unjustified a claim disputed by the police officer's lawyer.

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) told Reuters the issue had only lasted about 10 minutes and 'was fixed'.