Rapper Young Thug is a free man. Here are things to know about his plea.

ATLANTA (AP) — Rapper Young Thug is a free man after pleading guilty to gang, drug and gun charges. About 2 ½ years after he was arrested on the charges in a sprawling gang and racketeering indictment, Young Thug was released from custody Thursday evening. It was a remarkable...

Rapper Young Thug pleads guilty to gang, drug and gun charges

ATLANTA (AP) — Rapper Young Thug pleaded guilty Thursday in Atlanta to gang, drug and gun charges and will be released from jail, though he could be put back behind bars if he violates the terms of his sentence. The 33-year-old Grammy winning artist, whose given name is Jeffery...

Rapper Young Thug pleads guilty to gang, drug and gun charges almost a year after opening statements in trial

US imposes sanctions on top members of the armed wing of a Mexican fentanyl-trafficking cartel

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on senior members of the armed wing of a Mexican drug cartel that operates on border territories in and around Chihuahua, Mexico. Five Mexican citizens and two companies linked to La Linea, a violent Mexico-based drug...

2 journalists killed in separate incidents in Mexico within 24 hours

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.N. human rights office in Mexico said Wednesday journalists in Mexico need more protection, after gunmen killed a man whose Facebook news page covered the violent western Mexico state of Michoacan. Then less than 24 hours later an entertainment reporter in...

Gunmen working for a cartel shoot and kill a US man in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Mexico say gunmen apparently working for a drug cartel killed a U.S. man and that one of the alleged killers was a deserter from Honduras’ presidential guard unit. Arizona resident Nicholas Quets was shot to death on Oct. 18 near a gas...

Man standing trial alongside rapper Young Thug accepts plea deal

ATLANTA (AP) — One of the co-defendants standing trial alongside the rapper Young Thug accepted a plea deal with prosecutors Tuesday. Quamarvious Nichols, 29, pleaded guilty in Fulton County Superior Court to a single violation of Georgia’s anti-racketeering law, The Atlanta...

A violent start to the term of Mexico's new president raises questions about strategy, the army

MEXICO CITY (AP) — In just over three weeks in office, President Claudia Sheinbaum has inherited a whirlwind of violence that many say was set up by her predecessor’s policy of not confronting drug cartels, and using the army for law-enforcement. Sheinbaum, who took office Oct....

A car bomb explodes outside a police station in western Mexico, wounding 3 officers

ACAMBARO, Mexico (AP) — A car bomb left outside a police station in the town of Acambaro in western Mexico wounded three people, prosecutors in the violence-wracked state of Guanajuato said Thursday. They said another explosion, apparently a second car bomb, occurred in the nearby...

Mexican soldiers kill 19 drug cartel suspects and suffer no casualties in Sinaloa state

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican army troops have killed 19 suspected drug cartel gunmen in a shootout and suffered no casualties, the Defense Department said. The ruling Morena party has criticized past administrations for lopsided death tolls in which many suspects but no soldiers...