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W.Va. inmate who walked out of jail gets 5 additional years

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With a line of Mexican National Guardsmen behind them, a couple of migrant children campout on the Mexican shore of the Suchiate river on the border with Guatemala, near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. The migrants remained at the river's edge or stood in its muddy waters trying to decide what to do next, after being blocked from crossing en masse across the river. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras

By MARÍA VERZA and SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

This cover image released by Flatiron Books shows &quot;American Dirt,&quot; a novel by Jeanine Cummins. (Flatiron Books via AP)

Review: Love and fear drive migrants in `American Dirt’

By JULIA RUBIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2019 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador listens to questions during his daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City. Shortly before taking office Lopez Obrador decided to create an army of volunteers dubbed the “servants of the nation,” to canvass people who receive government benefits collecting their personal information in part to see if they might be eligible for yet more help from various programs promised during the campaign for the likes of farmers, the disabled, unemployed youth and the elderly. The effort alarmed opposition political parties who saw it as an attempt to illegally use public funds to promote López Obrador and his leftist Morena party. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico homicide rate edges up in 2019; rate of rise slows

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This cover image released by Flatiron Books shows &quot;American Dirt,&quot; a novel by Jeanine Cummins. (Flatiron Books via AP)

Winfrey chooses the novel “American Dirt” for her book club

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

Cesar De Castro, center, attorney for Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico's former top security official, is surrounded by reporters as he leaves Federal court in Brooklyn, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Indicted former Mexico security chief not interested in plea

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2011 file photo a Monarch butterfly sits on a tree trunk at the Sierra Chincua Sanctuary in the mountains of Mexico's Michoacan state. On Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, prosecutors in western Mexico have called in 53 local police officers for questioning in the Jan. 14 disappearance of a long-time promoter and protector of the wintering grounds of the monarch butterfly. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico questions police over disappeared butterfly activist

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In this Jan. 14, 2020 photo, tears well up in Ana Lucia Salazar's eyes as she tells her story of abuse, during an interview in Mexico City. Salazar says that she was sexually abused by a Legion of Christ priest when she was eight. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

10 years after Vatican reform, Legion in new abuse crisis

By MARIA VERZA and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Honduran migrants get a ride on the back of a truck as they travel north in hopes of reaching the distant United States, in Quezaltepeque, Guatemala, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. The group departed San Pedro Sula on Jan. 15. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Marooned migrant caravan plan surge into Mexico

By Sonia Perez D. and Maria Verza - Associated Press

Honduran migrants gather at a temporary shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, on the border with Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. More than 2,000 migrants spent the night in Tecun Uman on the Guatemalan side of the border, uncertain of their next steps. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Migrants ford river from Guatemala to Mexico

By Sonia Perez D. and Maria Verza - Associated Press

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, center, and members of his staff leave the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. Earlier the Senate overwhelmingly approved a new North American trade agreement that rewrites the rules of trade with Canada and Mexico and gives President Donald Trump a major policy win before senators turn their full attention ti his impeachment trial. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Even as Trump claims two victories on trade, doubts remain

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

In this Jan. 10, 2020, photo, people work at a portion of border wall which is under construction in Yuma, Ariz. Illegal border crossings have plummeted as the Trump administration has extended a policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico for court hearings in the U.S. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Illegal crossings plunge as US extends policy across border

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Mexican National Guardsmen look at the bridge spanning the Suchiate River in Ciudad Hidalgo, on the Mexican border with Guatemala, near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. Mexican authorities have closed a border entry point in southern Mexico after thousands of Central American migrants tried to push across a bridge between Mexico and Guatemala. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Thousands camp in Guatemala as Mexico blocks migrant path

By SONIA PEREZ D and MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

A Mexican National Guard looks at local residents crossing the Suchiate River, near Ciudad Hidalgo, on the Mexican border with Guatemala, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Border security forces in southern Mexico were preparing Friday for the expected arrival of hundreds of Central Americans traveling through Guatemala in hopes to reach United States. (AP Photo/Maria Verza)

Mexico blocks hundreds of migrants from crossing border span

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Honduran migrants walking in a group stop before Guatemalan police near Agua Caliente, Guatemala, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, on the border with Honduras. Less-organized migrants, tighter immigration control by Guatemalan authorities and the presence of U.S. advisers have reduced the likelihood that the hundreds of migrants who departed Honduras will form anything like the cohesive procession the term “caravan” now conjures. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Mexico readies for Central American migrants at south border

By MARÍA VERZA and SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

A Mexican citizen gestures after climbing the border fence to take pictures of himself, in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Illegal immigrants lying in wait for Trump to lose election

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Neto, left, participate in the USMCA signing ceremony, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

Senate approves rewrite of North American trade deal

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 13, 2020, photo, Attorney General William Barr speaks to reporters at the Justice Department in Washington to announce the results of an investigation of the shootings at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. (Associated Press) **FILE**

US attorney general talks drugs, guns at Mexico meeting

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A group of migrants walks trying to make it to the United States, near El Cinchado, Guatemala, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, on the border with Honduras. Hundreds of mainly Honduran migrants started walking and hitching rides from the city of San Pedro Sula and crossed the Guatemala border in a bid to form the kind of migrant caravan that reached the U.S. border in 2018. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala sweeps up migrant group, returns them to border

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

Accusations emerge about family of Mexico school shooter

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