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Hurricane Orlene is heading toward Mexico’s Pacific coast between the tourist towns of Mazatlan and San Blas, with authorities there suspending classes and setting up shelters

Hurricane Orlene has made landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast near the tourist town of Mazatlan.

Hurricane Orlene swept toward landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast near the tourist town of Mazatlan on Monday. Orlene lost some strength after roaring over the Islas Maria, a former prison colony being developed as a tourist draw. The hurricane's winds slipped back to 100 mph (155 kph) early Monday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

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Hurricane Orlene is at Category 3 strength as it heads for a collision with Mexico’s northwest Pacific coast between the tourist towns of Mazatlan and San Blas.

Tropical Storm Orlene is forecast to become a hurricane Saturday.

Tropical Storm Orlene became a hurricane Saturday.

The release is the latest twist in events surrounding the group after a dramatic breakout in Mexico.

Two new, internationally inspired ventures are opening in the Alamo City, and longtime drinkery Broadway 5050 is getting a revamp.

Brie and Camembert recalled nationwide after six people are sickened and five are hospitalized.

A San Benito man said a member of a known drug smuggling operation offered him money to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the United States, a federal criminal complaint reads. Ricardo Uribe Estrada has been charged with knowingly and intentionally possess to distribute 10.52 kilograms or 23 pounds of cocaine. According to the federal criminal complaint, Estrada on Sept. 26 attempted to enter the U.S. from Mexico via the B&M International Bridge in Brownsville. At the primary inspection area, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer referred Estrada’s vehicle to a secondary inspection area, the federal criminal complaint reads. The amount of money offered was not included in the federal criminal complaint.

Harvest season means long days for U.S. farmworkers — but usually no overtime pay.

Two brothers in Texas have been arrested after authorities say one of them opened fire on a group of migrants getting water near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing one man and shooting a woman in the stomach.

H.L. Kinney had big plans for the region when he established a trading post and the beginnings of a town along Corpus Christi Bay in 183

An exhibit of many of the abstract paintings by the late artist Alberto Minjangos is on display at the Mexican Cultural Institute where he was its founding director.

A group of international experts investigating the 2014 disappearances of 43 students in southern Mexico says the country’s attorney general has created “obstacles” to justice, apparently in a rush to show results

About 20 members of an extreme ultra-orthodox Jewish sect overpowered guards and escaped a government shelter in southern Mexico where they had been held since one of their leaders was arrested last Friday on organized crime and human trafficking allegations

Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which assumed the position of the deadliest country

Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which assumed the position of the deadliest country.

Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which assumed the position of the deadliest country

Mexico’s president says the special prosecutor leading the Attorney General’s Office investigation into the abduction and disappearances of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014 has resigned

It traces its lineage to the Pan American Roundtable of Brownsville, which started in 1927-28 and became the Costumes of the Americas Museum in 2005, Aubrey Nielson, collections manager for the Brownsville Historical Association, said. The costumes museum merged with the BHA in 2021, and its collection came over intact at that time. The new Costumes of the America Museum had its ribbon cutting on Sept. 11 and opened to the public two days later. 6 if you include Mexico City, but Brownsville came first, so there was El Paso, San Antonio, Laredo and Austin, the chapters were first in Texas and then came Mexico City and then came Brownsville,” she said. The BHA offers a museum day pass valid at all its sites, which also include the Stillman House, the Historic Complex and the Historic Brownsville Museum.

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The man claimed he was "going to a party in McAllen and had a box of 'pulparindo' candy, puppies and various meat products."

Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, elaborated on the strategy that former President Trump liked to deal with the crisis at the southern border on "Your World."

Authorities seized 44 kilograms of meth and one kilogram of heroin during a Laredo drug trafficking investigation.

An explosion has occurred outside Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office, injuring police as protesters demonstrating ahead of the anniversary of the 2014 disappearance of 43 students clashed with officers in riot gear.

Waves were triggered in the Devils Hole cave system at Death Valley National Park in Arizona by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck western Mexico about 1,500 miles away.

Passengers helped restrain and hogtie the unruly man, who was later arrested.

The waves churned inside a Death Valley cave 1,500 miles from the quake, in a phenomenon geologists called a "desert tsunami."

The waves churned inside a Death Valley cave 1,500 miles from the quake, in a phenomenon geologists called a "desert tsunami."

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck Mexico early Thursday, causing buildings to sway and leaving at least one person dead in the nation's capital.

The man was taken into custody after the plane landed. Witnesses said fellow passengers helped restrain him.

The man was taken into custody after the American Airlines plane landed. Witnesses said fellow passengers helped restrain him.

Since the incident occurred in the air, the FBI took over the investigation, arresting the man who was restrained by other passengers until the flight landed.

The Brownsville Police Department Special Victims Unit arrested a man on Wednesday on accusations of sexually abusing a child for about three years after he crossed the B&M International Bridge from Mexico, according to a press release. Juan Sandoval, whose residency is yet to be determined, was arrested on a charge of Continuous Sexual Abuse of Young Child, authorities said. The release states that Sandoval was crossing into the U.S. from Mexico when he was stopped for the warrant and was taken into custody and transported to the Brownsville City Jail. Authorities said the child was sexually abused over the course of three years. The Special Vicitms Unit took over the case after an outcry was made to the Brownsville PD on Aug. 12 of this year, the release said.

Mexico has declared a pre-Hispanic site in the central state of Guanajuato as an archaeological monument zone protecting it from the possibility of encroaching development and expressing a commitment to continue excavating the ancient ruins

Mexico has declared a pre-Hispanic site in the central state of Guanajuato as an archaeological monument zone protecting it from the possibility of encroaching development and expressing a commitment to continue excavating the ancient ruins. The National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement that the nearly 1,800-acre site known as the Cañada de la Virgen, near the colonial town of San Miguel de Allende, about 185 miles (300 kilometers) northwest of Mexico City, was built by the Otomi people and reached its height between the years 600 and 900 A.D.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Pharr International Bridge Cargo Facility seized over $1 million in cocaine on Saturday, according to a news release from the federal agency. Officers encountered a commercial trailer coming from Mexico and referred it to secondary inspection, the release said. During a “non-invasive” search, officers found 40 packages with about 98 pounds of cocaine hidden within the trailer, according to the release. The officers seized the narcotics and the tractor trailer. The case remains under investigation by agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations.

Mexico has four center forwards in training for its World Cup warmup matches this week, but El Tri will take only three strikers to Qatar. Martino ruled out Javier Hernández from an appearance in his fourth World Cup while speaking on the concourse at the stadium Chicharito calls home with the LA Galaxy.

Venezuelans have surpassed Guatemalans and Hondurans to become the second-largest nationality stopped at the U.S. border in August after Mexicans.

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One million of border encounters in fiscal year 2022 have resulted in migrants being expelled from the U.S. under Title 42, a coronavirus-era policy.

There were some early reports of damage to buildings from the quake, which hit at 1:05 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast on Monday, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes.

U.S. authorities say the number of Venezuelans taken into custody at the U.S. border with Mexico soared in August.

The 7.6 magnitude quake hit Mexico as the country marked the 2017 and 1985 shocks left thousands dead.

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake has shaken Mexico’s central Pacific coast, setting off an earthquake alarm in the capital

The debate over the origins of sotol is pointless:  It’s all good.

The debate over the origins of sotol is pointless:  It’s all good.

Laredoans recently gathered in El Portal to celebrate the traditional El Grito of...

Mexico’s Independence Day parade had even more of a militaristic air this year coming just days after the relatively new National Guard was passed completely to the command of the military

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This week the objective was to insert mention of Julian Assange into a meeting between Mexico’s president and the United States’ top diplomat

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that the eight suspects coordinated the transportation of the migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to other parts of the country.

A 19-year-old U.S. citizen who allegedly tried to smuggle more than 15 pounds of cocaine from Mexico into the United States told authorities he was going to be paid $1,000 to cross the illegal drugs, federal court documents reflect.

The death toll in a northern Mexico bus crash has risen to 20, as questions emerge about whether a double-tanker fuel truck may have caused the deadly accident

Cameron County plans to install some new technology at the Veterans International Bridge in Brownsville and the Free Trade Bridge at Los Indios that can help stop vehicles fleeing from the United States into Mexico. The Grab-350 Integrated Vehicle Barrier System will allow officers at the international bridges to activate a netting system that will pop up and act as a barrier to stop the vehicle in its tracks. The barrier system for both bridges will cost an estimated $2,179,903, documents indicate. The incident happened at the Veterans International Bridge in Brownsville, according to the press release. “This will allow the technology to help with vehicles that are crossing illegal cash, illegal proceeds, guns, other weapons and stolen vehicles, and missing and wanted people into Mexico,” Bazzano said.

Rose Garza hopes what is now a desire to help flood victims in the state of Coahuila where she’s from will become an actual relief effort for the people who are still there.

In a Sept. 3 story about the deaths of migrants trying to cross into the United States from Mexico, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a Mexican city.

The mounds of smelly sargassum seaweed piling up off Mexico’s Caribbean coast may have had only a localized impact on tourism, but for the people who have to scrape it off beaches with pitchforks, it has become a nightmare, and possibly a health threat.

In parts of Mexico where abortion has not been legalized, women rely on volunteer networks to provide medication and emotional support for at-home abortions. As access to abortion is shut down in Texas, similar networks are being built in the U.S.

En algunos estados de México, donde el aborto todavía no es legal, redes de acompañantes proveen medicamento y apoyo emocional para que las personas puedan realizar abortos en casa. Debido a que el acceso al aborto en Texas es cada vez más limitado, estas redes están comenzando a formarse en Estados Unidos.

Little League International says participation in its baseball and softball leagues was up this season, and team managers are optimistic about another bump next year coming off the first full-scale Little League World Series since the pandemic.

A journalist who ran an online local news program has been shot to death in southern Mexico, making him the 15th media worker killed so far this year nationwide.

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Authorities say migrants were stopped fewer times at the U.S. border with Mexico in July than in June, a second straight monthly decline.

The proposed $24 million settlement between U.S. women soccer players and the sport’s American governing body was approved by a federal judge.

Rescue divers’ first attempts to reach 10 miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine since last week were stopped by debris-filled shafts and poor visibility.

A lengthy legal back and forth has come to an end. However, little change is expected after the Biden administration officially scrapped the Migrant Protection Protocols program, better known as "Remain in Mexico."

The Department of Homeland Security says it has ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.

Mexico will attempt to send an aquatic drone into a collapsed coal mine where 10 miners have been trapped since last week.

Cuban firefighters have been joined by special teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela as they battle for a second day to control a fire blazing at a big oil tank farm.

Round-the-clock pumping slightly lowered the level of water inside the flooded shafts of a coal mine where 10 miners were trapped in northern Mexico, but two days after a collapse it remained too high for anyone to attempt a rescue.

Efforts to rescue 10 miners trapped in a collapsed and flooded coal mine in northern Mexico have intensified with hundreds of people involved in the operation.

Private clinics offer abortions at a fraction of the cost in the United States. City public health clinics may be more difficult to navigate but offer abortions free of charge, including for noncitizens.

Before abortion was legal in parts of Mexico, an extensive “accompaniment” system grew to help women safely terminate pregnancies on their own. Its organizers are now moving abortion-inducing medication across the border and helping replicate the system in the United States.

Antes de que el aborto fuera legal en algunos estados de México, los grupos de “acompañamiento” establecieron un sistema de apoyo para que las mujeres interrumpieran sus embarazos en casa. Ahora, estos grupos están ayudando a trasladar al norte de la frontera medicamento para abortar y a replicar este modelo en los Estados Unidos.

Las clínicas privadas en la Ciudad de México ofrecen abortos a una fracción del precio en Estados Unidos. También hay clínicas y hospitales públicos que ofrecen acceso gratuito al aborto, incluso para personas extranjeras.

Authorities in Mexico say at least 94 migrants had to bash their way out of a suffocating freight trailer abandoned on a highway in the steamy Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

Alex Morgan converted on a penalty in the 78th minute and the U.S. national team won the CONCACAF W Championship 1-0 over Canada on Monday night to secure one of the region’s spots in the 2024 Olympics.

Restaurant owner Leticia Rodríguez celebrated the construction late last year of a new lakeside boulevard in this northern Mexico town that she hoped would draw more people to her business.

The Canadian women’s national team is keeping a wary eye on concerns about its federation back home while focusing on a showdown with the United States in Mexico.

The U.S. women’s national team will play Canada in the final of the CONCACAF W Championship for a spot in the 2024 Olympics.

People in the Mexican mountain town of San Marcos Atexquilapan (Ah-tex-ki-LAH-pahn) spent days preparing and collecting donations to cover the funeral costs of three teenage cousins who were among the 53 migrants who died inside a semitrailer in Texas.

The U.S. women’s national team qualified for the 2023 World Cup on Thursday night at the CONCACAF W Championship.

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Alex Morgan scored a pair of first-half goals and the U.S. women’s national team defeated Haiti 3-0 on Monday in the opening match of the CONCACAF W Championship.

The wait for news has been agonizing for families from Mexico to Honduras whose relatives were being smuggled through south Texas this week.

In a 5-4 ruling, the justices announced Thursday morning that the Migrant Protection Protocols policy, better known “remain in Mexico,” can end under the Biden Administration.

The Trump administration created the Migrant Protection Protocols, also called “remain in Mexico,” in 2019 before the Biden administration canceled it in 2021. The ruling sends the case back to a Texas federal court.

The Supreme Court says the Biden administration can scrap a Trump-era immigration policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration courts.

The Texas Department of Public Safety will create and monitor new checkpoints for trucks entering from Mexico after dozens of migrants died in an abandoned trailer in San Antonio, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday.

To immigration experts, the astounding loss of life illustrates just how difficult it is to stem migration into the country, even as Abbott has spent the last year pouring billions of state dollars into securing the border.

A split-draw in the first fight and then a majority decision in favor of Canelo Álvarez in the second duel.

Officials with the Mexican Consulate in San Antonio provided an update Tuesday after the deaths of 51 people who were found inside a tractor-trailer on the Southwest Side.

Radio chatter from emergency responders is giving a more in-depth look at the mass casualty event where a large number of migrants were discovered in a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio.

Forty-six people have been found dead after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer on a remote back road in Texas.