MEXICO CITY

Authorities in northern Mexico say they have found the bodies of 14 people in an overturned pickup truck submerged in a canal

Authorities in northern Mexico say they have found the bodies of 14 people in an overturned pickup truck submerged in a canal.

Mexican authorities have arrested an anesthesiologist they blame for an outbreak of meningitis that has killed 35 patients and sickened 79

Mezcal is not your ordinary pet.

Mezcal is not your ordinary pet. Hundreds of years ago the Latin American Indigenous group, the Nahuas, believed that a hairless dog like him, a Xoloitzcuintle, was a sacred creature who could guide its deceased master through the underworld. Dozens gathered on a recent day at Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City for a meet-and-greet with Mezcal and three more “Xolos”, as these slender dogs are locally known.

The UFC has announced it will open a multimillion-dollar, 32,000-square-foot MMA training facility in Mexico City late this year.

His comments are important, because democracy in Latin America is in retreat. The president of El Salvador has announced he will defy constitutional term limits and run again for president next year.

Mexico’s president is probably the most powerful political figure the country has had in decades, but he said Thursday that after his term ends in September 2024, he will totally withdraw from politics. There had been speculation that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador would remain a power behind the scenes in his now-dominant Morena party. López Obrador had previously said he would retire to a ranch he inherited in southern Mexico and write books.

Investigators said the former director of a zoo in southern Mexico killed and cooked four of the zoo’s pygmy goats and served them up at a Christmas-season party

In Mexico City, it is the busy season for the craftsman who can repair Catholic families' beloved but broken baby Jesus figurines.

The U.S. Treasury Department has announced sanctions on an international operator for the Sinaloa drug cartel whose activities spans the globe

Officials in southern Mexico say police and civilians engaged in a strange confrontation over the weekend that left two officers and three civilians dead

Mexico City prosecutors say severed cables and a speeding driver were responsible for a Jan. 7 subway crash that killed one person and injured dozens

Residents of the Mexican resort of Cancun had been hoping people would boycott medallion taxis Friday, after a week of blockades and violent incidents by drivers protesting the ride-hailing app Uber

Experts restoring the interior of Mexico City’s Roman Catholic Cathedral say they have found 23 lead boxes containing religious inscriptions and relics like small paintings and wood or palm crosses

Experts restoring the interior of Mexico City’s Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral said Friday they found 23 lead boxes containing religious inscriptions and relics like small paintings and wood or palm crosses. The niches were covered with clay panels and were hidden under plaster. The National Institute of Anthropology and History said they may have been placed there to provide divine protection for the cathedral or the city.

Mexican immigration authorities say they have found 57 Guatemalan adolescents packed into a trailer on a highway near the U.S. border

Mexico City's neglected subway spotlights issues of inequality, poor public services and corruption so flagrant it kills. The mayor sent in troops.

Mexico's health department issued a warning this week after sever students were treated for taking tranquilizers as part of an internet challenge to see who can stay awake.

Authorities in north-central Mexico have confirmed that a U.S. resident was among four people who were killed in the state of Zacatecas around Christmas

Health authorities in Mexico have issued an alert over an internet “challenge” in which groups of students at three schools in Mexico have taken tranquilizers vying to see who can stay awake longer

U.S. officials say they are still far from agreement with Mexico over that country’s plans to ban imports of genetically modified corn for human consumption

The U.S. State Department has issued a travel advisory for Mexico’s resort-studded Caribbean coast after medallion taxi drivers started harassing and attacking drivers from the ride-sharing app Uber and their clients

Concern is growing in Mexico over the fate of two environmental and community activists who disappeared five days ago in a dangerous corner of western Mexico

The second school in as many days has been hit by mass ingestion of tranquilizer pills that may be linked to a social media “challenge.”

U.S. authorities have handed over to Mexico a key suspect in the 2014 disappearance of 43 college students

The U.S. National Cemetery in Mexico City holds the remains of Americans who fought Mexicans in the 19th century.

A Mexican human rights group has launched an online guide for people searching for missing relatives, a real need in a country where authorities have been slow to act

Authorities in western Mexico say they have launched a search for two activists who went missing after their vehicle was found with bullet holes on a rural roadway

Mexico’s president says his government will consider a plea by imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to be returned to Mexico, presumably to serve out his sentence

Mexico’s president said Wednesday his government will consider a plea by imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to be returned to Mexico, presumably to serve out his sentence. Guzman, 64, was sentenced to life behind bars in the United States for a drug conspiracy that spread murder and mayhem for more than two decades. Guzman has lived in poor conditions in prison since his 2019 conviction, said José Refugio Rodríguez, a Mexican lawyer who claims to represent him.

The environmental and financial costs of Mexico’s Maya Train tourism project are already massive, but authorities revealed another, unexpected cost of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s pet project on Tuesday. The Defense Department said the project will require over 6,500 soldiers and National Guard officers to permanently guard its tracks and stations, out of the country's total 166,000-member combined force. In comparison, that is more than double the number of officers assigned to drug eradication nationwide, and more officers than are assigned to all but three of Mexico's 32 states.

Authorities say they unearthed 10 dismembered bodies that had been buried under the floor of an events hall in central Mexico

6,060 National Guard officers in Mexico are going to be posted in the city's subway system. The mayor of Mexico City is reacting to recent mechanical problems in the subways.

The mayor of Mexico City says 6,060 National Guard officers will be posted in the city’s subway system after a series of accidents

The mayor of Mexico City says 6,060 National Guard officers will be posted in the city's subway system after a series of accidents that officials say could be due to sabotage.

Mexico City police say an extortion and drug-dealing gang was behind the Dec. 15 shooting attack on one of Mexico’s best-known journalists

During the two-day summit, North American leaders discussed everything from border policy to domestic manufacturing.

Speaking at a press conference in Mexico City on Tuesday, President Biden said he was “surprised” to learn that any government records were in a private office he used after his term as vice president. Biden said he doesn’t know what’s in the documents and his lawyers “have not suggested” the president ask about the materials.

The White House has released a list of key deliverables to be discussed at this year's North American Leaders Summit, including combatting xenophobia and installing EV chargers.

A Nicaraguan Roman Catholic bishop will stand trial on charges of conspiracy and spreading false information

A lawer for President Joe Biden only revealed that classified documents were found in a private office linked to him two months after the midterm elections.

President Joe Biden says he was “surprised’ when he was informed that government records were found by his attorneys at a former office space in Washington.

The three leaders are set to meet for a series of talks on migration, trade and climate change.

President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are seeking to downplay their frustrations with one another on migration and trade as they meet for the North America Leaders Summit.

In a story published January 10, 2023, about the Justice Department's review of potentially classified documents in the Washington office space of President Joe Biden's former institute, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number boxes seized by the FBI during its August search of Mar-a-Lago.

The Biden administration says Iran’s sale of lethal drones to Russia for use in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine means the country may be “contributing to widespread war crimes.”.

Shake Shack-founder Danny Meyer's investment fund is backing the expansion of Tacombi, a fast-casual Mexican taqueria, to 75 locations across the U.S.

Migration is a big talking point for President Biden's summit Monday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador held days after the arrest of the son of "El Chapo" in Sinaloa.

Ahead of a North American leaders summit in Mexico City, President Biden made his first visit as president to the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. There, he met with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who handed Mr. Biden a letter asking him to more strictly enforce immigration laws. Weijia Jiang reports from Mexico City.

Dozens of police and soldiers swarmed into the nearby subway stations, while ambulances and rescue teams arrived to treat the injured.

Dozens of police and soldiers swarmed into the nearby subway stations, while ambulances and rescue teams arrived to treat the injured; one woman was killed.

Authorities in Mexico City say two subway trains have collided, killing at least one person and injuring 16

Authorities in Mexico City say two subway trains have collided between stations, killing at least one person and injuring 57.

The arrest comes just days before President Biden is scheduled to make his first visit to Mexico.

Organized crime again paralyzed the western Mexico city of Culiacan Thursday as alleged cartel members carjacked residents, setting vehicles ablaze and leading authorities to warn everyone to stay inside

The Mexican military has captured a son of the imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

Organized crime paralyzed the western Mexico city of Culiacan, a stronghold of the Sinaloa drug cartel, as alleged cartel members carjacked residents and set vehicles ablaze on Thursday in apparent response to the arrest of a cartel leader. The operation comes just days before López Obrador will host U.S. President Joe Biden for bilateral talks followed by a North American Leaders' Summit with Biden and Canadian Primer Minister Justin Trudeau.

Hundreds of handicraft vendors in southern Mexico have blocked access roads to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza

Hundreds of handicraft vendors in southern Mexico blocked access roads to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza for the third day Wednesday. “They prohibit the vendors there from speaking Maya,” said Arturo Ciau Puc, an activist with a local farm group known as CIOAC. The ruin site is operated by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, and its boundaries are somewhat vague, with local communities claiming some of the land.

President Biden told reporters that it's his "intention" to visit to the U.S. southern border next week as part of a trip to Mexico City for a regional summit.

The San Antonio Spurs have hit a record-breaking ticket sale for the team’s return to the Alamodome on Jan. 13.

Mexico's president is appealing to the country's citizens not to accept holiday handouts and gifts from drug gangs.

A grisly pre-Christmas killings of two young men and their uncle at an early 1900s house in Mexico City is putting attention on the dark side of the capital's booming property market.

Jimmy Butler scored 26 points, Bam Adebayo had 22 points and 13 rebounds and the Miami Heat extended their winning streak to four, beating the San Antonio Spurs 111-101 on Saturday in the first NBA game in Mexico City since 2019.

Mexico's president has asked Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Bad Bunny to play a free concert in Mexico City, to make up for a fake ticket scandal that left thousands frustrated at a sold-out weekend appearance.

The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City is one of the world’s most visited and beloved religious venues.

Mexican authorities say seven suspects and one soldier are dead after a shootout between the army and suspected drug cartel gunmen in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo.

The United States isn’t seeking to sever economic ties with China — even as it takes steps to protect America’s technological and military prowess from Beijing.

Gunfire broke out before dawn across the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, prompting the cancellation of classes and an advisory from the U.S. Consulate to shelter in place.

Argentines have breathed a collective sigh of relief as the country obtained a 2-0 victory over Mexico dissipating doubts that had emerged about Lionel Messi’s team after the shock loss against Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

Jimmy Garoppolo threw four touchdown passes, including two each to Brandon Aiyuk and George Kittle, and the San Francisco 49ers won their third straight game by beating the Arizona Cardinals 38-10 in Mexico City.

Xin Xin, the last panda in Latin America, is not your average bear.

The ball punched in by Diego Maradona for his “Hand of God” goal at the 1986 World Cup has been sold at auction for nearly $2.4 million by the referee who missed soccer’s most famous handball.

A yellow Labrador retriever rescue dog that gained fame in the days following Mexico’s Sept. 19, 2017, earthquake has died.

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the tens of thousands who demonstrated against his proposal to overhaul the country’s electoral authority were people in favor of privilege, racism and classism.

Tens of thousands of people have packed the capital’s main boulevard to protest President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposal to overhaul the country’s electoral authority in the largest demonstration against one of the president’s efforts during his nearly four years in office.

Even in defeat, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll could recognize the special experience of participating in the NFL’s first regular-season game in Germany.

Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front has completed its political domination of the country by winning local elections decried as unfair in all 153 of the country’s municipalities.

Differences over abortion have pitted one large batch of U.S. states against another — one group imposing sweeping bans, the other intent on making abortions accessible.

Hurricane Lisa has made landfall on the Caribbean coast of Belize.

Max Verstappen set the Formula One record for wins in a season Sunday at the Mexico City Grand Prix, where he scored his 14th win to break the record shared with Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel.

During the Day of the Dead celebrations that take place in late October and early November in Mexico, the living remember and honor their dearly departed, but with celebration — not sorrow.

Max Verstappen inched closer to a record 14th victory of the Formula One season by holding off a pair of Mercedes and Mexican favorite Sergio Perez to win the pole for the Mexico City Grand Prix.

Mexican artisans are struggling to preserve the traditional manufacture of paper cut-out decorations long used in altars for the Day of the Dead.

Lawmakers in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas have voted to legalize same-sex marriages, becoming the last of Mexico’s 32 states to authorize such unions.

A blistering display of bare-knuckled political infighting has broken out in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party, complete with rumors of secret wiretaps and drug cartel ties.

In a shelter on Mexico City’s east side, Venezuelan mechanic José Cuicas is waiting anxiously for an American friend to answer his request to sponsor him for one of the 24,000 visas the Biden administration says it will give to Venezuelans.

Hurricane Roslyn has grown to Category 4 force as it heads for a collision with Mexico’s Pacific coast, likely north of the resort of Puerto Vallarta.

Presidents Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke Tuesday as a growing number of migrants from crisis-gripped Venezuela arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border.

In a shallow lake on the outskirts of Mexico City, a handful of farmers are trying to keep alive a culinary tradition dating to the Aztec empire.

Hurricane Julia hit Nicaragua’s central Caribbean coast and dumped torrential rains across Central America before reemerging over the Pacific as a tropical storm.

Hurricane Julia has swept by just south of Colombia’s San Andres island soon after strengthening from a tropical storm, as Nicaraguans rush to prepare for the storm’s arrival overnight on their Caribbean coast.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has chosen the head of the country's tax agency to fill the cabinet-level post of secretary of the economy.

Hurricane Orlene has made landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast near the tourist town of Mazatlan before quickly weakening over land into a tropical depression.

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.

A massive trove of emails from Mexico’s Defense Department is among electronic communications taken by hackers from military and police security institutions in several Latin American countries.

Chiles en nogada, the green, white and red stuffed pepper dish synonymous with Mexico's Independence Day celebrations, were invented in 1821 by a cloistered nun whose name has been lost to history.

Carrying photographs of their children at their chests, relatives of the 43 students who disappeared in southern Mexico in 2014 have marched on the eighth anniversary of their abductions with conflicting sentiments.

The Mexican army’s role in the disappearance of 43 college students and its alleged links to organized crime are now at the center of a case that has shaken the nation.