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Panama has launched a security operation along its shared border with Colombia to combat organized crime groups and migrant smugglers involved in record-setting migration through the perilous Darien Gap this year. Security officials said Friday that the “Shield” campaign is part of the agreement reached with the governments of Colombia and the United States in April to stop the flow of migrants through the border’s jungle-clad mountains. Panama will use previously U.S.-donated helicopters to increase aerial patrols of the largely roadless region, but stressed that it was a Panamanian ope...

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Authorities provided a more detailed description Thursday of the arsenal that a New Mexico high school student had in his possession at the time of last month’s shootings that killed three people and wounded six others, including two police officers.

Authorities say three men killed in a weekend shootout at a New Mexico motorcycle rally were all members of rival outlaw biker gangs. New Mexico State Police say at least five others were wounded in Saturday's shooting in the mountain resort town of Red River where the rally was going on. Authorities said the shooting followed an earlier altercation between the rival biker gang members in Albuquerque. Authorities say the dead were all New Mexico residents and identified them as 26-year-old Anthony Silva, 46-year-old Damian Breaux and 46-year-old Randy Sanchez. Police say at least three pe...

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix is facing dueling lawsuits as it tries to manage a crisis of homelessness that has converted its downtown into a tent city housing hundreds of people as summer temperatures soar.

New Mexican Spanish is a unique dialect, a mixture of centuries-old Spanish with Indigenous words that evolved through historical isolation. Traditional prayers are the dialect’s best chance of survival, as younger generations switch to English and to contemporary Spanish forms from Latin America. Catholic brotherhoods that have long served remote northern New Mexico in the absence of priests still use the dialect in their devotions. And even in larger cities, some people request it for special occasions like rosaries for the dead.