Judi Lynn

Sonia Perez D and Maria Verza, Associated Press
Updated 3:32 pm CST, Sunday, January 19, 2020

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (AP) — The bridge spanning the Suchiate River between Mexico and Guatemala was open again for business Sunday, but few migrants crossed after a failed attempt by thousands of Central Americans to barge through the previous d…[Read more]

Updated 5:33 pm CST, Sunday, January 19, 2020

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence gave a speech Sunday in remembrance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at a church service in Tennessee.

Pence spoke at the Holy City Church of God in Memphis the day before the federal holiday named after the civil rights leader.

“I’m here to pay a…[Read more]

Meg Kinnard, Associated Press
Updated 1:02 am CST, Monday, January 20, 2020

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — In the closing days before the first votes are cast in the Democratic presidential contest, the party’s leading hopefuls are splitting their time between the critical early-voting states South Carolina and Iowa at events celebrating Martin Luther K…[Read more]

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JANUARY 17, 2020
by W. T. WHITNEY

Mexico’s government intervened recently in two difficult situations beyond its borders. One is turmoil in Bolivia following a U.S. – assisted coup. The other is about renewing the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). At issue there is regional integration and independence.

Bolivian Pre…[Read more]

The Obria clinics refuse to provide contraception and are determined to make America chaste again.
STEPHANIE MENCIMERJANUARY/FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE

When I walked into the Obria clinic in Whittier, California, one evening in July, a woman in a modest floral-­print dress organizing bundles of diapers in a back room greeted me hopefully. She thought…[Read more]

By Stephanie Pappas – Live Science Contributor 4 days ago

(Image: © Shutterstock)

Tiny-but-tough tardigrades aren’t as indestructible as previously believed.

These microanimals, which live in both fresh and salt water, are famous for their ability to survive extremes that would kill other organisms. But new research finds that the creatures…[Read more]

By Yasemin Saplakoglu – Staff Writer 4 days ago

The spectacular solar storms that paint the polar skies in beautiful greens and pinks have a darker side

This aurora was captured on camera from the International Space Station in June 2017.
(Image: © NASA)
The spectacular solar storms that paint the polar skies in beautiful greens and pinks…[Read more]

By Laura Geggel – Associate Editor 3 days ago

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the graves of 50 enslaved workers who labored at an elite Roman villa just under 2,000 years ago in what is now southern England.

These burials date to the Roman period in the United Kingdom, from about A.D. 43 to A.D. 410. Many of the deceased were buried…[Read more]

January 19, 2020 Ben Norton

Brazil’s extreme Bolsonaro government backed an attack on Venezuela in a plot to overthrow its elected president. The shocking terror operation has received no coverage in mainstream US media.

By Ben Norton

Brazil’s far-right government helped support military attacks on Venezuela in hopes of inciting a coup and vio…[Read more]

By Duncan Tucker, Americas Media Manager at Amnesty International
9 January 2020, 11:49 UTC

Danelly Estupiñán will never forget the first threat she received. The text message arrived at 5:35pm on 30 November 2015, saying: “Danelly, your end has come”. Hours later, during a phone call with a friend, a distorted voice appeared on the line,…[Read more]

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Ed Vulliamy

Sun 19 Jan 2020 04.35 EST

Just months after the conviction of the Mexican narco-lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán for drug trafficking and control of a murderous criminal enterprise – the Sinaloa cartel – comes a new beer: El Chapo lager.

Mexico’s thirst for a good cerveza is matched only by the apparently unquenchable one for El…[Read more]

BY JOSHUA GOODMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted January 19, 2020 4:37 pm

Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaidó has traveled to Colombia to participate alongside U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a regional counter-terrorism meeting — a new show of support by the Trump administration for the man it says is the country’s legitimate lead…[Read more]

by Adriaan Alsema January 19, 2020

The Supreme Court magistrate investigating Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe may have been the victim of illegal spying practices since April last year, Noticias Uno reported Saturday.

According to the news website, the prosecution has been investigating the entry of five armed and masked men in the m…[Read more]

Stephen Groves, Associated Press
Updated 10:06 am CST, Saturday, January 18, 2020

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — Snow blanketed the living room of Erna Shepard’s home the morning after a storm on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

“I’m going to freeze,” she said.

It’s been 10 months since the “bomb cyclone” that dumped the snow and rain that Shepa…[Read more]

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Michael D. Shear and Nicholas Fandos 4 hrs ago

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s legal defense team strenuously denied on Saturday that he had committed impeachable acts, denouncing the charges against him as a “brazen and unlawful” attempt to cost him re-election as House Democrats laid out in meticulous detail their case that he should be removed…[Read more]

Donald Trump recounted the scene as he monitored the strikes from the White House Situation Room when Soleimani was killed.
Reuters
Palm Beach
January 19, 2020UPDATED: January 19, 2020 11:15 IST

US President Donald Trump gave a minute-to-minute account of the US drone strikes that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in remarks to a…[Read more]

JANUARY 18, 2020 / 9:24 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGOBrad Brooks, Gabriella Borter
5 MIN READ

(Reuters) – Virginia’s House Republican leader said on Saturday that white supremacists and any other groups trying to spread “hate, violence, or civil unrest” were not welcome at a pro-gun rally in the state’s capital on Monday, which is expected to draw th…[Read more]