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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.

The peso had its worst week since the pandemic as markets reacted to fears that the government would pass constitutional changes seen as dismantling democratic checks and balances.

The Buenos Aires Yoga School promised spiritual salvation, but former members and prosecutors say it pushed some female members into prostitution as it cultivated powerful friends.

A police force outside Toronto said that charges against Frank Stronach, 91, relate to episodes from as long ago as the 1980s and as recent as last year.

There are still ways for people to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, particularly without any new resources to help guard the 2,000-mile frontier.

After returning home from a wedding in Mexico, a traveler found a huge charge on his credit card and suspected a gas station attendant was responsible. Wells Fargo didn’t believe him.

A tree fell on a high-voltage transmission tower early Thursday, knocking out power to parts of the Chilean capital.

In Mexican cities along the border with the United States, migrants were taking a wait-and-see approach to a restrictive new executive action.

Huge die-offs of elephant seals occurred after the virus gained nearly 20 troublesome new mutations, scientists found.

Claudia Sheinbaum’s list of accolades is long: She has earned a Ph.D. in energy engineering, participated in a United Nations panel of climate scientists awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and governed Mexico’s capital, one of the largest cities in the hemisphere. On Sunday, she added another achievement to her résumé by becoming the first woman elected president of Mexico.

President Biden’s executive action addresses one of his most serious political vulnerabilities ahead of the presidential election.

The move shows how drastically immigration politics have shifted in the United States. The American Civil Liberties Union said it planned to challenge the order in court.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has been a defining figure in Mexican politics, has said he will retire to a family ranch after his term ends. Some expect his influence will continue.

From Barcelona to Bali, higher fees and new rules are targeting overtourism and unruly behavior. Some locals are worried the changes will keep tourists away.

The country’s south received three months’ rain in two weeks. Global warming has made such deluges twice as likely as before, scientists said.

Expectations were high for the leftist Morena party, and it exceeded them, potentially giving President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and her allies the power to enact systemic change.

She made only two films, but her “Araya,” a rumination on the daily rituals of salt-mine laborers, became an enduring work of Latin American cinema.

In contrast to the United States, the region has had more than a dozen female leaders, many in democracies that were once under the sway of authoritarian governments.

The move, expected on Tuesday, would allow the president to temporarily close the border and suspend longtime protections for asylum seekers in the United States.

As it studies cosmic microwaves, the Simons Observatory in Chile aims to help prove or disprove cosmic inflation, a notion that the universe expanded rapidly in the moment after the Big Bang.

Claudia Sheinbaum was born to Jewish parents, but she has played down her heritage on the campaign trail.

The documentary “State of Silence,” premiering at the Tribeca Festival, uses personal stories to explain the bleak situation for journalists in Mexico.

Lower-than-normal rain and snow have reduced Canada’s hydropower production, raising worries in the industry about the effects of climate change.

Claudia Sheinbaum was projected to win the presidential race in a landslide victory, which was a vote of confidence to continue the leftist policies of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Here are five key insights into Mexico’s new president as people wonder whether she will diverge from Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policies or focus on cementing his legacy.

See results and maps for Mexico’s 2024 presidential election.

A climate scientist and former mayor, Ms. Sheinbaum became the first woman and Jewish person elected as president of the country.

Elon Musk’s Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.

Since September, the Marubo, an isolated Amazon tribe, were connected to high-speed internet through Elon Musk’s Starlink. Jack Nicas, The New York Times’s Brazil bureau chief, visited the tribe’s remote Indigenous villages to see what the internet has changed for them.

Convicted in the murder of six women (though he boasted of killing many more), he died of unspecified injuries after being assaulted in prison.

A watchdog agency found roadblocks to the flow of information both within the spy agency and the public service.