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Mexico's president slams US aid for Ukraine and sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba

Sep. 29, 2023 14:20 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Friday slammed U.S. aid for Ukraine and economic sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba and other nations as the first of two high-level U.S.-Mexico meetings got underway in Washington. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a broad...

Miguel Cabrera's career coming to close with Tigers, leaving lasting legacy in MLB and Venezuela

Sep. 28, 2023 08:01 AM EDT

DETROIT (AP) — Miguel Cabrera sat in a gray chair beside his two stalls in the Detroit Tigers' clubhouse early in the final week of his career, sorting through stuff to get shipped. Major League Baseball's only Triple Crown winner since 1967 stuffed dozens of barely used cleats and...

With temporary status for Venezuelans, the Biden administration turns to a familiar tool

Sep. 23, 2023 21:17 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — From a White House podium in May, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas outlined new legal pathways to the United States for Venezuelans and others, along with a “very clear” message for those who come illegally. “Our borders are not open....

UNGA Briefing: There's one more day to go after a break — but first, here's what you missed

Sep. 23, 2023 20:26 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It's almost the end of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York. Here are the highlights of what happened Saturday at the United Nations and what to keep an eye on Tuesday, the last day (Monday's off for...

As foreign minister speaks at UN blocks away, Venezuelan asylum-seekers strain New York City

Sep. 23, 2023 19:13 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Ysamar López stood beneath the old hotel's canopy, exploring New York City's unfamiliar streets on Google Maps and making a plan to set out into the rain. The Venezuelan woman arrived late the prior evening after a two-day bus ride from Texas capping weeks of...

A Venezuelan man and his pet squirrel made it to the US border. Now he's preparing to say goodbye

Sep. 23, 2023 01:13 AM EDT

MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — During the weeks it took Yeison and Niko to migrate from Venezuela toward the U.S., they navigated dangerous jungles and over a dead body. The two are so inseparable that Yeison sold his phone so both had enough bus money to continue their journey. Now as...

Mexico pledges to set up checkpoints to 'dissuade' migrants from hopping freight trains to US border

Sep. 22, 2023 22:52 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials pledged Friday to set up checkpoints to “dissuade” migrants from hopping freight trains to the U.S. border. The announcement came Friday at a meeting that Mexican security and immigration officials had with a representative of U.S. Customs...

Dodgers capitalize on Giants' physical and mental blunders to win 7-2

Sep. 22, 2023 01:50 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — J.D. Martinez’s sacrifice fly drove in the go-ahead run in the sixth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers capitalized on two physical and one mental blunder by the San Francisco Giants to win 7-2 Thursday night in the series opener. The Giants have dropped six of...

Want a place on the UN stage? Leaders of divided nations must first get past this gatekeeper

Sep. 22, 2023 00:37 AM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It's one of the United Nations' more obscure bodies, with no space to call its own within the riverside headquarters. And there is scant insight into how it decides a question of far-reaching impact: Who gets let through the door? With an anodyne name, the...

Census shows 3.5 million Middle Eastern residents in US, Venezuelans fastest growing Hispanic group

Sep. 21, 2023 13:53 PM EDT

The United States had 3.5 million residents who identify as Middle Eastern or North African, Venezuelans were the fastest-growing Hispanic group last decade and Chinese and Asian Indians were the two largest Asian groups, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The most detailed race...