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Migrants cross the Rio Grande river towards the US in Eagle Pass, Texas
Migration
More migrants are attempting to cross into the US via the perilous Rio Grande
A farmer cleans a coca crop in Cauca, Colombia, on Jan. 27, 2017.
Economics
UN reaches a deal to help rid Colombia of cocaine
Members of Brazil's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community posing for a portrait inside a free residential shelter called CASA 1 or "House 1" in downtown São Paulo on May 16, 2017.
Justice
Brazil is accused of stripping away LGBT rights
Some of about 4,000 guns seized by Brazil's Federal Police or delivered by residents during a public disarmament campaign, are pictured before being destroyed in Rio de Janeiro on June 2, 2017.
Economics
Gun violence hits all citizens with a heavy financial toll
US Marines raise the American flag at half-staff at the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on Oct. 2, 2017.
Conflict
US expels Cuban diplomats in the latest threat to US-Cuban relations
Clovis points
Science
How scientists are piecing together the story of ancient Americans
Members of Israeli and Mexican rescue teams gesture for a minute of silence after retrieving a dead body from a collapsed building after an earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico, on Sept. 21, 2017.
Environment
Hundreds of Mexico City buildings may now be uninhabitable
Rescue workers search through rubble during a floodlit search for students at Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico City on Sept. 20, 2017.
Environment
Mexico City rescuers find survivors and fatalities in a collapsed school
A dolphin performs tricks at a recent Six Flags show in Mexico City.
Culture
Mexico City is banning dolphin shows, taking a lead on animal rights
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence speaking to reporters after a security briefing at Trump's golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Aug. 10.
Conflict
Mike Pence starts Latin America tour clouded by Trump’s military threat against Venezuela
A Brazilian navy soldier patrols Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 30, 2017
Conflict
A year after the Rio Olympics, gunfights continue and troops patrol the streets
Riot security forces clashing with demonstrators rallying against Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 28.
Media
Intimidation, Twitter trolls, and finally this New York Times correspondent was kicked out of Venezuela
Venezuela's opposition leader Leopoldo López, who has been granted house arrest after more than three years in jail, salutes supporters, in Caracas, Venezuela
Justice
Venezuela grants house arrest to Leopoldo López, its most prominent political prisoner
Afro-Cuban jazz singer Daymé Arocena performs during the New Era concert in Havana, 2016.
Music
Cuba’s Daymé Arocena found her religion through music
Manuel Noriega, Panama's former dictator, when he was 77
Global Politics
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega dead at 83
A demonstrator confronts riot police during a protest against Brazil's President Michel Temer in front of the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on May 18.
Global Politics
Brazil will not be outdone by Washington’s chaos
Demonstrators protest against Brazil's President Michel Temer in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 17. The banner reads: "Out Temer."
Global Politics
Brazilians are outraged and talking impeachment again
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro greets supporters during a meeting at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela
Global Politics
Venezuexit: Now Venezuela says it will pull out of the OAS
ICE raid protests 2017
Economics
Immigration law experts say workplace raids don’t really work
Venezuela
Global Politics
In Venezuela, chaos worsens as political crisis grows
A dog on a street destroyed after flooding and mudslides caused by heavy rains
Environment
Colombia mudslides kill at least 200 after rivers burst their banks
Protesters set fire to the congress building during a demonstration against a possible change in the law to allow for presidential re-election in Asunción, Paraguay on March 31.
Conflict
Rioters set fire to congress in Paraguay
Cuban youth
Economics
In Cuba, young people are weighing professional dreams against the allure of the new economy
'RedadAlertas': an App that tells you where there are raids against immigrants.
Justice
Immigration raid alerts are coming soon to your smartphone
Mexico Trump protests
Economics
Thousands of Mexicans protest Donald Trump and his wall
Thomas M. Hodgson
Justice
The county sheriff who can’t wait to help enforce Trump’s immigration policies
Science
A little lizard in Puerto Rico is adapting quickly to big-city life
People are seen on Ledras Street next to a peace sign near the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia, Cyprus, January 11, 2017.
Economics
Five important news stories that aren’t about Donald Trump
Bruce Heyman
Global Politics
US ambassador to Canada is first to resign after Trump’s demand on diplomats
Close-up of a mosquito Aedes aegypti feeding on blood
Lifestyle
Zika is no longer a public health emergency, WHO says
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and first lady Rosario Murillo
Global Politics
Nicaragua’s husband-and-wife duo are likely to win elections as president and vice president
Three-month-old Jesus, photographed on Oct. 5 in Guarenas, Venezuela, was born with microcephaly
Health
Zika’s million-dollar question: Where are the birth defects?
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes inside Oxitec laboratory in Campinas, Brazil.
Health
Nobody is completely sure which mosquito spreads Zika in Brazil