Mexican journalist shot dead in violent western state
MEXICO CITY – The head of an online news outlet in Mexico was shot dead soon after hosting a live social media broadcast late on Tuesday, authorities and the victim’s…
In US swing states, officials brace for conspiracy theories and violence
DETROIT – With the U.S. election days just away, officials in the most competitive battleground states are bracing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, threats and possible violence. In Philadelphia, Detroit and…
50 Cent says he rejected $3million offer to perform at Trump rally
Olayomi Koiki American rapper Curtis James Jackson III, known professionally as 50 Cent, turned down a $3 million offer to perform at former President Donald Trump’s rally at New York’s…
Hotel collapses in Argentina, firefighters search for trapped people
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – A ten-story hotel building collapsed early on Tuesday in the coastal city of Villa Gesell in Argentina’s Buenos Aires province, the local municipality said in a…
Bolivia says Morales falsely claimed assassination bid
Bolivia’s government on Monday accused former president Evo Morales of falsely claiming he was the victim of a state-backed assassination attempt, saying police fired on his vehicle after he ran…
Bus crash in central Mexico kills 19 people
ZACATECAS, Mexico – Nineteen people died and six others were injured when a bus crashed on a highway in Mexico’s central state of Zacatecas on Saturday, local authorities said. The…
Ex-president of Bolivia says 14 shots fired at his car
Former Bolivian president Evo Morales said gunmen fired a hail of bullets at his car Sunday as he traveled to a radio interview in the central city of Cochabamba, wounding…
Biden says Elon Musk was an ‘illegal worker’ when he began U.S. career
President Joe Biden called out Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, now a Republican megadonor and Trump campaign surrogate, for hypocrisy on immigration on Saturday, saying Musk launched his long…
An AI chatbot pushed a teen to kill himself, a lawsuit against its creator alleges
FLORIDA, U.S. — In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest…
Biden apologizes for Native American boarding school atrocities
US President Joe Biden delivered a historic apology Friday for one of the country’s “most horrific chapters”: abducting Native American children from their families and placing them in government boarding…