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Stock market today: Wall Street hangs around its records after European stocks slump
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks hung around their record levels on Friday as Wall Street remained relatively quiet following another slide in Europe. The S&P 500 edged down by less than 0.1%, marking the first time this week where it did not set an all-time high. The Dow Jones...
Aides' vehicle in a convoy carrying Mexico's next president involved in a crash that killed 1
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A highway accident Friday involving an SUV carrying aides to Claudia Sheinbaum, who won Mexico’s June 2 presidential elections, has resulted in at least one fatality. Sheinbaum was not injured. Sheinbaum’s spokesman said the advance car hit another vehicle on...
Mexico's small, oft-questioned Green Party to become the second-largest force in Congress
MEXICO CITY (AP) — It’s been a long strange trip for Mexico’s Ecologist Green Party, which rode on its alliance with the ruling Morena party to become the second-largest voting block in Congress. This Green Party has been better known for picking presidential winners like it...
Mexico finds the remains of some of the 63 miners who died 18 years ago
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities announced Wednesday that they found the remains of some of the 63 miners who were trapped 18 years ago in a coal mine in northern Mexico. The accident occurred at the Pasta de Conchos mine in the state of Coahuila, which borders Texas, on Feb....
Historic Mexico City castle is depicted flying the Targaryen flag, and officials aren't amused
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s historic Chapultepec Castle has been depicted flying the black Targaryen flag, and officials in Mexico aren’t amused. The plot of the “House of the Dragon,” a “Game of Thrones” prequel, apparently involves countries taking sides in a civil...
Mexico expedition sights only 6 to 8 vaquita porpoises, the most endangered marine mammal
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of Mexico’s critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises sighted in the Gulf of California fell to between 6 and 8 this year, researchers said Tuesday. But it is possible that some of the few remaining vaquitas — the world's smallest porpoise...
Investigators probe the killings of 4 women and 2 children in central Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday that investigators are looking into the killings of four women and two children in central Mexico, where National Guard officers were present. The murders occurred Sunday in León, an industrial city...
Over 4,000 residents flee a town in southern Mexico after armed gangs start shooting, burn homes
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged Monday that authorities have had to set up camps for displaced people after some 4,200 residents fled a town in the southern state of Chiapas. Residents of the town of Tila fled over the weekend after...
In Mexico heat wave monkeys still dying, birds are getting air-conditioning, lions get popsicles
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Amid Mexico’s heat wave and drought, suffering birds are getting air-conditioning and monkeys with heatstroke are being rescued by non-governmental groups. The government, meanwhile, has been more preoccupied with cooling down animals at state-run zoos, giving...
Mexican authorities clear one of Mexico City's largest downtown migrant tent encampments
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican federal immigration authorities said Thursday they have cleared one of Mexico City’s largest downtown tent encampments of migrants. The National Immigration Institute says the migrants had been forced to pay bribes of between $12 and $35 to an...
