Americas

Members of the country’s military gathered outside the presidential palace on Wednesday, President Luis Arce said, an action that took the country by surprise.

The country’s Supreme Court voted to remove criminal penalties for possession of up to 40 grams of marijuana.

The arrival of 400 Kenyan officers came on a day of deadly violence in Kenya. The international force was sent to try to restore order in the gang-plagued Caribbean nation.

Four former officials in the government of President Nicolás Maduro describe his options between now and an election that could remove him from power — or solidify his grip.

Researchers discovered painted ladies on a South American beach and then built a case that they started their journey in Europe or Africa.

With the sea creatures making up a growing share of illegal animal seizures around the world, U.S. officials are working to overcome struggles to safely house them.

Edmonton’s mayor says that the issues behind homelessness, opioid overdoses and mental health crises cannot be fixed by cities.

The next Mexican president’s years of living in California provide insight into how she will handle key issues in Mexico-Washington ties.

The inspections in Michoacán, the Mexican state responsible for most avocado exports to the U.S., were suspended last weekend because of security concerns.

Lionel Messi had said the 2022 World Cup, which his country won, was his last. Will the Copa América soccer tournament be his goodbye?

No longer a tropical cyclone after making landfall on Thursday, Alberto still threatened flooding and mudslides in Mexico and dangerous surf on the Texas coast.

The public works minister said the power outage had been caused by the failure of a key transmission line. Within hours, power had begun to be restored to the nation of 18 million.

The new policy will give some 500,000 people a pathway to citizenship.

The move, prompted by fears for agency workers’ safety, could eventually affect U.S. avocado supplies if the inspections are not resumed.

It’s summer and the temperature is rising. Here’s what you need to know to protect yourself and your vacation dollars.

After the Hernández sisters served breakfast to an opposition leader, the government shut down their restaurant. Then came an outpouring of support.

Böttner, whose specialty was self-portraiture, celebrated her armless body in paintings she created with her mouth and feet while dancing in public.

Families of patients in a Cold War-era mind-control experiment in Montreal are pressing forward after a recent setback in their class-action lawsuit.

Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers exulted over the discovery of its wreckage, 62 years after it sank in the Labrador Sea.

In a cold, remote corner of northern Quebec, a sexual abuse scandal pushed a church to the edge. The Rev. Gérard Tsatselam, from Cameroon, must comfort the afflicted to bring it back.

Cole Mannix, of Old Salt Co-op, is trying to change local appetites and upend an industry controlled by multibillion-dollar meatpackers.

Experts called the naval exercises routine but also a show of strength as Washington maintains military support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.

Thousand-year-old DNA from Chichén Itzá offers eye-opening details of the religious rituals of ancient Maya.

The Grammy-winning D.J. and music producer recommends spots in a city he loves on Jamaica’s northeast coast. A dance party makes the cut.

A Toronto police officer mounted a defiant social media campaign against her employer. The police ruled that she had tried to destroy the agency’s reputation.

Grizzly Bear 178, or Nakoda, as she was known to her fans on social media, was hit in Yoho National Park, hours after her cubs were struck and killed in a separate accident, officials said.

A Times story about the arrival of high-speed internet in a remote Amazon tribe spiraled into its own cautionary tale on the dark side of the web.

A South Florida jury found the company liable for killings committed by a paramilitary group that was on the banana producer’s payroll.

Researchers have long assumed that a tube in the famous Pikaia fossil ran along the animal’s back. But a new study turned the fossil upside down.

Press freedom groups say the investigation of Gustavo Gorriti, a noted Peruvian journalist, is politically motivated and part of a growing campaign against the news media.