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Ongoing challenge. For discussion from george Amanda Bennett is ceo of gt the u. S. Agency for global media. She talks about the importance of a free and independent press and highlights the rise of global disinformation as an ongoing challenge. This discussion is from George Washington university. [background noises] [background noises] good afternoon everyone. Good afternoon, everyone. Im joel fishman, president of the Public Diplomacy council of america. It is my privilege, on behalf of the G...

We began in germany, where Political Parties have their votershance to sway ahead of the general election. The latest poll gives german chancellor Angela Merkels conservative party the lead, but whether she will be up to form a coalition with the ftp is another matter altogether. With one third of voters saying they have not made up their mind, merkel still has something to sleep on. Candidate forion chancellor is giving everything up until the last minute. The social democrat reached out to vot...

Tijuana has the most active murder investigations in all of Mexico, and some residents and local advocates fear there is no end in sight to the violence.

It isn’t uncommon to see parents and their children at Mexican markets walking down the aisles speaking Mixteco, Triqui, Chatino or any of the other indigenous languages of Mexico.

Under the new visa pilot program, the administration is prioritizing growers’ profits over farmworkers’ rights.

Then, she said, produce vendors cleared out of the market after they faced demands to affiliate with the gangs; she feared her husband Carlos would be forcibly recruited if he turned up for his job on a construction site. After the assassination of a prominent local peace activist, Yomara and Carlos, who withheld their full names for security reasons, said they'd had enough, crossing into Arizona with their four-year-old daughter Karla in early November and turning themselves into United S...

A married couple and their child and a woman and her three children are among several thousand Mexican who had fled their homes due to cartel violence and await asylum from the U.S.

After multiple threats, Tijuana's mayor took to living inside a military barracks.

Highlights from the Hollywood Reporter, MSNBC, the Guardian and others.

LOS ANGELES — As a teenager picking apples in the Central Valley town of Mendota, Miguel Arias was puzzled when Mexican farmers yelled the insult "Oaxaquita" at Oaxacans working in