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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...