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Poor water pressure and dry hydrants posed major obstacles to fighting the February fire that killed scores of people along the country's Pacific Coast. As a fast-moving wildfire swept through [...]

Across the U.S., migrant children are being put to work in roofing, even though it is banned by federal law. On social media, they call themselves ruferitos. They wake before [...]

A New York Times investigation found that the country's police and military fired lethal ammunition at unarmed civilians during protests in December and January. Over the course of five weeks, [...]

The ''soccer mom'' was born a cliché. Americans were introduced to her during the 1996 presidential race, when she was heralded by campaign consultants and the media as the new [...]

To battle the nearly one-million-acre Dixie fire, California launched a military-style operation. Some experts wonder whether the approach is sustainable. SUSANVILLE, Calif. -- One grew to a size larger than [...]

Some parents are opting to try, once again, the dangerous trek north to rejoin children who were kept in the United States by the Trump administration. HUEHUETENANGO, Guatemala -- In [...]

The president has struggled to balance the country's public health with its economic needs. Experts fear that reopening the economy while the disease is not under control will lead to [...]

Many people in Guayaquil, Ecuador, blame the government for failing to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, and to deal with the thousands of bodies that have piled up [...]

The leaders of the region's two largest nations -- Mexico and Brazil -- have largely dismissed the dangers and have resisted calls for a lockdown. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Most [...]

Tens of thousands demanded government action to halt the killing of ten women every day, on average. MEXICO CITY -- Tens of thousands of women vanished from streets, offices and [...]

The Mexican authorities used pepper spray on a caravan of 4,000 Central American migrants who tried to enter the country illegally, and dangled the possibility of jobs for those who [...]

The latest influx from Guatemala is testing Mexico's resolve to restrict the movement of undocumented migrants under pressure from the United States. CIUDAD TECÚN UMÁN, Guatemala -- After days of [...]

A bandaged eye is now so common among people protesting inequality in Chile that it has become a rallying symbol. SANTIAGO, Chile -- Brandon Gonzalez, 19, marched with a group [...]

CõCUTA, Colombia -- The first in a wave of defectors was a sergeant in Venezuela's national guard: He sneaked over the border into Colombia in early February and declared he [...]

Body-worn cameras are reshaping perceptions of policing. The small devices, typically mounted on officers' shirts, provide a lens into law enforcement that is meant to build transparency and trust. But [...]

CAMPINA GRANDE, Brazil -- Marina Leite arrived at a hospital from her rural village in February, 28 weeks pregnant and struggling to speak or breathe. She was carrying double the [...]

There is a surprising diversity in the physical as well as the political landscape of Iowa's rural areas, which make up more than three-quarters of the state's 99 counties and [...]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- They entered through the convention hall lobby -- a mounted menagerie of dead mammals, birds and fish whose owners paused in the natural light to primp them [...]

Five months after a Cleveland police officer shot and killed Tamir Rice, 12, his family and friends are still struggling to make sense of their loss. This video captures an [...]

FORT BERTHOLD INDIAN RESERVATION, N.D. -- Tex G. Hall, the three-term tribal chairman on this remote, once impoverished reservation, was the very picture of confidence as he strode to the [...]

FERGUSON, Mo. -- Late Wednesday, two nights after rioting left blocks of this suburban city in smoldering ruin, a small but angry crowd assembled at the police station on South [...]

CRESTON, Iowa -- Van Lucas flew F-16 fighter jets over Iraq and Afghanistan for the Air National Guard, but the idea of returning to Iowa to fly low-powered crop-dusters several [...]

GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. -- For moose, this year's winter-long deep freeze across the Upper Midwest is truly ideal weather. The large, gangly creatures are adapted to deep snow: Their hollow [...]

COTES DES ARCADINS, Haiti -- It was an immaculately clear midsummer morning, a perfect day for diving. No trash had yet washed up on the beach. A dozen volunteers, all [...]

With a friend videotaping, 27-year-old Christopher Lenzini of Dallas took a hit of Salvia divinorum, regarded as the world's most potent hallucinogenic herb, and soon began to imagine, he said, […]