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December 16, 2020 at 8:32 am

Cookies, hot cocoa, pick-me-up notes: ‘Sparks’ of kindness

A tin of cookies is left on the running board of an ambulance outside a nursing home with a note for the emergency workers who...

In this photo provided by Jessica Berrellez, volunteers build desks in Gaithersburg, Md., on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. Berrellez and her husband, with the help of some 60 community volunteers, have built and donated over 100 desks to students and families in need. (Jessica Berrellez via AP) MDJW105 MDJW105

October 19, 2020 at 7:02 am

A desk of their own to ease remote learning for kids in need VIEW

Around the country, flourishing volunteer efforts have sprung up to build desks for kids who need their own space for at-home learning as the coronavirus...

March 20, 2020 at 6:20 pm

Mexico’s president in no hurry to confront virus outbreak VIEW

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Many countries in Latin America have taken aggressive measures to deal with the coronavirus such as closing their borders, dock and...

March 18, 2020 at 9:59 am

A snapshot of Mexico’s cartel landscape amid rising violence

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Another year, another homicide total unseen before in Mexico’s modern history as the country struggles to check rising violence. Cartels and...

March 3, 2020 at 10:47 am

Trump allies in Americas block Africans’ path to US asylum

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — President Donald Trump isn't the only world leader making it virtually impossible for many Africans to get asylum in the United...

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February 29, 2020 at 4:14 pm

Outspoken gang critic LeBarón flees threat in Mexico for US

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A prominent member of a community of U.S.-Mexican dual citizens living in northern Mexico that was shattered by the November massacre...

February 26, 2020 at 3:42 pm

Mexico president ties shootout dead to drug consumption

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested Wednesday without offering evidence that most of those who die in Mexico's cartel- and gang-fueled...

February 25, 2020 at 10:44 am

Mexico data confirm 0.1% economic contraction in 2019

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s economy entered a technical recession and contracted 0.1% in 2019, the first year of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year...

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February 24, 2020 at 8:53 am

Illegal net snares humpback in endangered porpoise refuge

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Rescuers in Mexico were partially able to free a humpback whale that became entangled in a fishing net illegally set inside...

February 19, 2020 at 6:15 pm

Mexico City arrests 2 suspects in death of 7-year-old girl

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities said late Wednesday they arrested a woman and a man suspected in the kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl whose dead...