MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday she will propose constitutional reforms aimed at protecting Mexico’s sovereignty after U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration designated six Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. What You Need To Know Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said she’ll propose constitutional reforms to protect Mexico’s sovereignty The moves…
KYIV, Ukraine — Relations between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump deteriorated rapidly Wednesday as Zelenskyy said Trump was living in a Russian-made “disinformation space” and Trump called Zelenskyy “a dictator without elections” in comments that were sure to complicate efforts to end the war. What You Need To Know Relations between…
PLANO, Texas — A former Guatemalan congressman was sentenced in the U.S. to 18 years in federal prison last week after pleading guilty to being involved in an international drug trafficking conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday. Jose Armando Ubico Aguilar, 45, was sentenced Feb. 11 by U.S. District Judge Michael Truncale in…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Harsh cold descended on the nation’s midsection Monday as a polar vortex gripped the Rockies and Northern Plains on the heels of weekend storms that pummeled the Eastern U.S. with floods, killing at least 14 people. What You Need To Know The National Weather Service is warning of life-threatening cold Extreme cold warnings have been…
TOPEKA, Kan. — Is Presidents Day the most confusing holiday in the U.S.? What You Need To Know U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents The federal holiday is officially Washington’s Birthday to honor George, the first president, and 34 states use his…
EL PASO, Texas — Three immigrants who won a restraining order against the federal government to avoid transfer to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba were deported this week on direct flights to Venezuela, according to court documents published Friday. The three men were deported Monday, the day after a federal judge approved a…
HONG KONG (AP) — TikTok has returned to the app stores of Apple and Google in the U.S., after President Donald Trump delayed the enforcement of a TikTok ban. What You Need To Know TikTok was removed from Apple and Google’s app stores on Jan. 18 to comply with a law that requires ByteDance to…
The State Department had been in talks with Elon Musk’s Tesla company to buy armored electric vehicles, but the plans have been put on hold by the Trump administration after reports emerged about a potential $400 million purchase. What You Need To Know The State Department had been in talks with Elon Musk’s Tesla company to buy…
BEIJING (AP) — Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier. Stunned,…
The Associated Press said it was blocked from covering President Donald Trump‘s executive order signing today because it declined to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its editorial style standards. Julie Pace, the executive editor of the news agency, said in a statement, “Today we were informed…