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People wait inside the prosecutor's office for news of their missing loved ones after an attack on the White Horse Bar in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz state, Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. Gang members burst into the bar on Tuesday night, blocked all the exits and then started a fire that killed 26 people and injured about a dozen others, Mexican officials said. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Families begin burying the 28 victims of Mexico bar fire

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Lawmakers OK same-sex marriage in Mexico’s Oaxaca state

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This Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019 photo, from left, Luz Viviana Perez, 53, arranges chess board with her daughters, 17 and 12. at a migrant shelter affiliated with the San Diego Rapid Response Network in San Diego. The Mexican family is seeking asylum. Registration forms at the San Diego shelter for asylum-seeking families offer insights on who is coming, how they are treated in U.S. custody and where they go. Houston was the most popular destination by far, a reflection of its emergence as a primary gateway for immigrants.(AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Shelter data pinpoints US destinations of asylum seekers

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2019, file photo, migrants return to Mexico as other migrants line up on their way to request asylum in the U.S., at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, that crosses into Brownsville, Texas. A Trump administration program forcing asylum seekers to wait out the process in Mexico has evolved into a sweeping rejection of all forms of migrants, with both countries quietly working to keep people out of the U.S. despite threats to their safety. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel, File)

US, Mexico widen asylum crackdown to push back all migrants

By MARÍA VERZA and NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

3 girls aged 4, 13, 14 shot to death in Mexico border city

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Mexico reaches deal with private gas pipeline firms

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This Feb. 13, 2019 photo shows two visitors at Misol Ha waterfall, tucked away in the rainforest of Chiapas state, in southern Mexico. The waterfall features a single cascade of some 115 feet (35 meters) that spills into a pool encircled by tropical greenery. (AP Photo/Anita Snow)

Back to Chiapas 25 years after covering rebel uprising

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

Monica Ortega rises a knitting with black crosses during a tribute for murdered women, in the Alameda park of Mexico City, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019. A small group of women constructed a memorial made of hand-knit hearts. The knit-in on came on the heels of rowdy protests sparked by outrage over bungled investigations into alleged rapes of teenagers by local policemen. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Mexican women knit hearts at memorial for murdered females

By AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

Tropical Storm Ivo peaks and not likely to become hurricane

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Roman Catholic priest stabbed to death in Mexico border city

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Workers break ground on new border wall construction about 20 miles west of Santa Teresa, New Mexico, Aug. 23, 2019. The wall visible on the left was built in 2018 with money allocated by Congress, while the new construction is funded by money reallocated from Department of Defense funding. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

Work on more border wall starts in Arizona, New Mexico

By CEDAR ATTANASIO and ASTRID GALVAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 1987, file photo, Cincinnati Bengals place kicker Jim Breech (3) and New York Jets' Barry Bennett (78) react after Bennett blocked his game winning field goal attempt as they watch Jets' Rich Miano pick up the ball and run 67 yards for the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Authorities in Minnesota are investigating the deaths of a former NFL lineman and his wife and say the couple's son is a suspect. The bodies of 63-year-old Barry Bennett and his wife, Carol, were found Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, after a friend went to their home in Long Prairie for a welfare check. (AP Photo/Wilbur Funches, File)

Son charged in death of ex-NFL lineman Bennett, wife

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Tennessee man sought in 2015 killing arrested in Mexico

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Antonio Basco, companion of Margie Reckard, leans on her casket during her funeral at La Paz Faith Memorial &amp; Spiritual Center, Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. Reckard was killed during the mass shooting on Aug. 3. (AP Photo/Jorge Salgado)

Strangers come for miles to mourn El Paso shooting victim

By Russell Contreras - Associated Press

Mexico is busing asylum-seeking migrants to southern border

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FILE - In this July 16, 2014 file photo, what was once a marina sits high and dry due to Lake Mead receding in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. Extreme swings in weather are expected as part of a changing climate, something Brad Udall, a water and climate research scientist at Colorado State University, has called &quot;weather whiplash.&quot; The drought-stricken Southwest got a reprieve this year with average and above-average snowfall following a year that sent many states into extreme drought. Nearly empty reservoirs quickly rose, including Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the largest man-made reservoirs in the country that hold back Colorado River water. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

The Latest: Colorado River improves, but voluntary cuts loom

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FILE - In this July 16, 2014 file photo, what was once a marina sits high and dry due to Lake Mead receding in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. Extreme swings in weather are expected as part of a changing climate, something Brad Udall, a water and climate research scientist at Colorado State University, has called &quot;weather whiplash.&quot; The drought-stricken Southwest got a reprieve this year with average and above-average snowfall following a year that sent many states into extreme drought. Nearly empty reservoirs quickly rose, including Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the largest man-made reservoirs in the country that hold back Colorado River water. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Climate change still threatens key US river after wet winter

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

People attend a community memorial service, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, at Southwest University Park, in El Paso, Texas, for the people killed in a mass shooting on Aug. 3. (Briana Sanchez/The El Paso Times via AP)

Leaders say love will triumph over hate after El Paso attack

By CEDAR ATTANASIO and JAKE BLEIBERG - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 1, 2019 file photo, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers his speech during rally to celebrate the one-year anniversary of his election, in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo. Vigilante attacks and mob justice appeared to be on the rise in Mexico this second week of August, as violence mounted, two dozen bodies appeared along roadsides and the government ruled out any new crackdown on criminal gangs. But Lopez Obrador said Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, that he won’t be drawn into the kind of army offensive that then-President Felipe Calderon launched against the cartels in 2006, when he sent troops to Michoacan. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Vigilantes, mob justice grow as violence mounts in Mexico

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

In this Aug. 1, 2019, photo, migrants rest near a Mexican immigration center where migrants set up camp in Matamoros, Mexico. Turning Mexican border cities into waiting rooms for asylum seekers may be the Trump administration’s most forceful response yet to a surge of migrants, many of them Central American families. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Border numbers dip below 100k for 1st time in months

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press