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KYIV, Ukraine — As Russia launched an onslaught of new attacks on civilian sites across Ukraine, U.S. officials on Thursday ratcheted up their accusations that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces

Mexico was already one of the deadliest countries in the world to be a journalist. Then three reporters were assassinated in January.

Chile's next president, Gabriel Boric, is a tattooed millennial who wants to fight inequality, protect the environment and reform the police. He's not alone.

One America considers the virus a critical threat and embraces vaccines and one that does not.

I grumbled the moment my editor suggested I write about Cinco de Mayo this week. It’s not that I’m against the holiday or the way it’s celebrated. Sure, any mention of the word “drinko” would set me off on a tirade about cultural appropriation when I was younger. But as I’ve gotten older and with the advent of I largely live in a world free of obnoxious people looking for an excuse to get drunk under the guise of celebrating my Mexican heritage, so there’s no need to get on my so...

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Biden in a bind as migrants swell at the border 08 Mar 2021 A day after an SUV packed with migrants crashed in Imperial County last week, leaving 13 dead, police in southern Mexico encountered a disturbing scene: more than 200 US-bound Central Americans, a quarter of them children without adult Patrick J. McDonnell, Tribune News Service A day after an SUV packed with migrants crashed in Imperial County last week, leaving 13 dead, police in southern Mexico encountered a disturbin...

Print This is the Feb. 17, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get it in your inbox three times a week. Kamala Harris took just two official trips abroad as a U.S. senator — to Israel, Jordan and Afghanistan. They were the type of box-checking visits to strategic allies and a war zone that many politicians dash off as they position themselves to run for president. Now that she’s vice president, we got an important indication over the la...

Scott M. Simon | Peirce & Associates HARRISBURG – Walmart is seeking to dismiss litigation between itself, a woman who alleged it committed a pharmaceutical packaging error which allegedly led her husband to take the wrong medicine and pass away in 2017 and the medicine’s manufacturer. Cindy M. Orner first filed suit on behalf of the Estate of Raymond J. Orner Jr. in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas on Feb. 26, 2020 and Walmart removed the case to the U....

By Patrick J. McDonnell and Kate Linthicum Los Angeles Times/TNS MEXICO CITY  -  In Latin America, a region hard hit by pandemic, poverty and flawed health care systems, many experts fear that large-scale coronavirus immunization campaigns could prove a logistical nightmare, even as vaccinations are set to begin. Home to 8.4 percent of the global population, Latin America and the Caribbean account for 30 percent of the world’s 1.6 million COVID-19 deaths and 19 percent of the 76 million ...