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FILE - A Mexican flag waves in front of The National Palace, the office of the president, in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, at sunrise, April 24, 2023. Mexico's general elections, including presidential, are set for June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Experts warn against wave of fake news ahead of Mexico’s 2024 presidential election

By Marcos Martínez Chacón - Associated Press

Illustration on the DOJ and Mexican drug cartels by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Justice Department sides with cartels, not Texans

By Selene Rodriguez

Cars maneuver around a plow clearing debris along a flooded Sierra Highway in Palmdale, Calif., as Tropical Storm Hilary moves through the area on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Rain from Tropical Storm Hilary lashes California and Mexico, swamping roads and trapping cars

By Damian Dovarganes and Jordi Lebrija - Associated Press

Workers make adjustments to buoys being used as a barrier along the Rio Grande, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas moves large floating barrier on U.S.-Mexico border closer to American soil

By Valerie Gonzalez and Paul J. Weber - Associated Press

Vehicles cross over a flood control basin that has almost reached the street, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, in Palm Desert, Calif. Forecasters said Tropical Storm Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, bringing the potential for flash floods, mudslides, isolated tornadoes, high winds and power outages. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Southern California braces for more floods as tropical storm soaks region from coast to desert

By Christopher Weber, Damian Dovarganes and Jordi Lebrija - Associated Press

Tourists hang out on the Gaviota Azul beach in Cancun, Mexico, March 2, 2010. A four-day inspection raid targeting drugstores in Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulu resulted in the shuttering of 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts, six months after a report warned that the drug stores were offering foreigners pills they passed off as Oxycodone, Percocet and Adderall without prescriptions, the Navy Department said Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Israel Leal, File)

Mexico shutters 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts after US warned of dangerous pill sales

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A copy of a new, government-written fourth-grade textbook is held by Luz de Teresa Oteysa, researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the UNAM, during an interview at her office in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. A series of about three dozen government-written, free textbooks introduce a new teaching method, something never before done in Mexico, where in the past, each administration updated the texts but kept the subjects largely the same. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

In Mexico, accusations of ‘communism’ and ‘fascism’ mark school textbook debate

By Mark Stevenson and Leon Ramírez - Associated Press

Texas State Troopers watch from an airboat as workers deploy a string of large buoys to be used as a border barrier at the center of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. The floating barrier is being deployed in an effort to block migrants from entering Texas from Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Mexico recovers 2 bodies from the Rio Grande, one found near a floating barrier that Texas installed

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Migrants wait along a border wall Aug. 23, 2022, after crossing from Mexico near Yuma, Ariz. The government has argued in federal court in Phoenix Tuesday, June 13, 2023, that a lawsuit seeking money for five affected migrant mothers and their children should be dismissed despite President Joe Biden's loathing of his predecessor’s practice of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border. A Justice Department attorney argued that the Yuma, Arizona-based Border Patrol agents involved used their discretion to separate the families, not a policy aimed at deterring migrants arrivals. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Mexican authorities discover truck ‘cloned’ to look like U.S. Border Patrol truck

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Friday, July 7, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

U.S. to take referrals from Mexico’s new center for third-country migrants

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Migrants, mostly from Venezuela, hold photos of those who died in a fire at a Mexican immigration detention center, behind, during a prayer vigil outside the center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April, 27, 2023. Four months after a fire in a Mexican immigration detention center at the border killed 40 migrants, some survivors are living in limbo at a Mexico City hotel, recovering from their injuries and awaiting the prosecution of their captors. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

Survivors of Mexico’s worst migrant detention center fire stuck in limbo, unable to support families

By María Verza - Associated Press

Phoenix Suns' players and coaches pose with young athletes following an NBA Cares basketball clinic, a day before their regular-season NBA game against the San Antonio Spurs in Mexico City, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The NBA has announced the Atlanta Hawks and Orlando Magic will play a regular-season game in Mexico City on Nov. 9. It will be the 32nd NBA game in Mexico since 1992. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Mexico City will host the Atlanta Hawks and Orlando Magic for an NBA regular-season game in November

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In this Jan. 19, 2016, file photo, handguns are displayed at the Smith & Wesson booth at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas. The Mexican government sued U.S. gun manufacturers and distributors, including some of the biggest names in guns like Smith &amp; Wesson Brands, on Aug. 4, 2021 in U.S. federal court in Boston, arguing that their commercial practices have unleashed tremendous bloodshed in Mexico. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Court weighs Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. gun-makers over cartel violence

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Illustration on smuggled illegal immigrants and drug cartels by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Smuggled migrants provide material support to cartels

By John Hostettler

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a press conference at the Celebrate Freedom Foundation Hangar in West Columbia, S.C., Tuesday, July 18, 2023. DeSantis visited South Carolina to file his 2024 candidacy for president. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)

DeSantis comes out swinging — and misses

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

Mexico's Orbelin Pineda, right, vies for possession against Panama's Adalberto Carrasquilla during the second half of the CONCACAF Gold Cup final soccer match Sunday, July 16, 2023, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Mexico beats Panama 1-0 in CONCACAF Gold Cup final as Gimenez scores 88th-minute goal

By Greg Beacham - Associated Press

Migrants trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico approach the site where workers are assembling large buoys to be used as a border barrier along the banks of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Mexico files border boundaries complaint over Texas’ plan for floating barriers on Rio Grande

Associated Press

FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City, Jan. 10, 2023. On July 14, 2023, Mexico’s president continued with attacks against Xóchitl Gálvez, the opposition front-runner for the 2024 presidential elections despite a ruling by electoral authorities that he has been violating equity and neutrality rules with such comments. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexican president continues attacking opposition candidate, despite electoral agency’s order to stop

Associated Press

FILE - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a rally marking his fifth anniversary in office, at the Zocalo in Mexico City, July 1, 2023. Mexico’s president has vowed to continue campaigning against the opposition front-runner for the 2024 presidential elections, breaking a longstanding tradition of Mexican presidents keeping out of the race to succeed them. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario, File)

Mexico’s president breaks with tradition in quarrel with scrappy opposition upstart

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

Mexican Navy officers stand guard next to a security checkpoint at the Benito Juarez International Airport, in Mexico City, Friday, June 30, 2023. Mexico's armed forces are taking control of the capital's main airport and the government plans to give the military control of nearly a dozen more across the country as the president aims at corruption and mismanagement. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexican military to take over airports as president takes aim at corruption, mismanagement

By Maria Verza - Associated Press