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Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes dies in exile in Nicaragua at age 65

Jan. 22, 2025 16:51 PM EST

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65. Nicaragua’s Health Ministry said in a statement that Funes had died of a serious...

Some immigrants are already leaving the US in 'self-deportations' as Trump's threats loom

Jan. 16, 2025 13:01 PM EST

TRACY, Calif. (AP) — Michel Bérrios left the United States a few days before the new year, giving President-elect Donald Trump's campaign for mass deportations a small victory before they even started. A former leader of a Nicaraguan student uprising, Bérrios had been in the U.S....

Jimmy Carter had little use for the presidents club but formed a friendship for the ages with Ford

Jan. 06, 2025 13:22 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter and the man he beat for president, Gerald Ford, got so tight after office that their friendship became a kind of buddy movie, complete with road trips that were never long enough because they had so much to gab about. Carter did not get along nearly...

Democratic senators urge Biden to act on temporary protections for migrants

Dec. 11, 2024 17:42 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators are urging President Joe Biden to extend temporary protections for migrants in the U.S. before he leaves office, warning that millions of people could be forced to return to unsafe countries once President-elect Donald Trump retakes the White House. ...

US officials to investigate labor and human rights abuses in Nicaragua

Dec. 10, 2024 12:40 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is opening an investigation into labor and human rights abuses in Nicaragua, impacting relations with a country the U.S. has a free trade deal with amid growing concerns over President Daniel Ortega’s increasingly authoritarian rule. The...

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is opening a labor abuse investigation into Nicaragua

Dec. 10, 2024 11:07 AM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is opening a labor abuse investigation into Nicaragua.

Presidents have used immigration 'parole' since the 1950s. Now it could disappear under Trump

Nov. 26, 2024 09:49 AM EST

MIAMI (AP) — Cuba’s at one of its lowest points since the 1959 revolution, with nationwide scarcity fueling massive emigration, occasional protests and government crackdowns. Gangs control the streets of Haiti’s capital, firing on arriving jets and forcing delays in elections to replace slain...

USA Basketball beats Bahamas 97-74, moves closer to AmeriCup berth

Nov. 25, 2024 22:25 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — USA Basketball is on the brink of qualifying for next year's AmeriCup tournament. Javonte Smart scored 21 points, Jahmi'us Ramsey scored 19 and the U.S. never trailed in a 97-74 win over the Bahamas in an AmeriCup qualifying game Monday night. The...

Nicaragua's Ortega proposes reform to make him and his wife 'copresidents'

Nov. 20, 2024 19:23 PM EST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega on Wednesday proposed a constitutional reform that would officially make him and his wife, current Vice President Rosario Murillo, “copresidents” of the Central American nation. While the initiative has to pass through the...