Safety tips from the US government for Americans traveling to Mexico The U.S. Department of State has been cautioning Americans to reconsider travel to Baja California, the region of Mexico, where four bodies were recently found. 05/4/2024 - 1:24 pm | View Link
It's Cinco de Mayo time, and festivities are planned across the US. But in Mexico, not so much The United States is gearing up for Cinco de Mayo. Music, all-day happy hours and deals on tacos are planned at venues across the country on Sunday — May 5 — in a celebration with widely misunderstood ... 05/4/2024 - 5:21 am | View Link
Two women are seeking Mexico’s presidency. But the race is about a man. A win by Claudia Sheinbaum, protégé of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, could cement the grip of a party that already controls the presidency, both chambers of congress and two-thirds of Mexico’s ... 05/3/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Bodies Found Near Area in Mexico Where Tourists Went Missing: AP Three bodies have been located in a popular Mexican tourist area where one American and two Australians went missing last week, according to Associated Press, which cited the local prosecutor’s office ... 05/3/2024 - 8:03 pm | View Link
Three bodies found amid search for 2 missing Australians, 1 American in Mexico Three people were found dead in Santo Tomas, Baja California, as authorities search for two Australians and one American who went missing last weekend in the coastal Mexican state, FBI San Diego said ... 05/3/2024 - 5:47 pm | View Link
“The presidential election may come down to a city in the Midwestern prairie that is home to Warren Buffett — a prospect that is raising hopes among some Democrats that the once-prolific political donor will come off the sidelines to try to power President Joe Biden to reelection,” Bloomberg reports.
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“The U. S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine, with the massive outlay being repaid with the windfall profits from sovereign Russian assets that have been frozen – and are accruing interest — mostly in Europe,” Bloomberg reports.
“Republicans have launched more than 30 investigations into the State Department since taking power in 2023, an unusually high number that is fueling partisan tensions,” Politico reports.
“Democratic lawmakers and State Department officials say this particular chapter of the growing partisan rancor on Capitol Hill is affecting U. S. foreign policy: It distracts U.
Nevada Independent: “The lawsuit alleges that the four-day period for mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received violates federal law because it does not conform to the Election Day deadline established by the federal government.”
Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters.
In South Dakota, organizers have submitted 55,000 signatures in support of the ballot measure granting a limited right to abortion—far more than the 35,000 required.