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"They have to learn to respect Mexico's sovereignty," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said of the U.S. and Canada after their ambassadors weighed in on his controversial proposal.

The Harris-Walz ticket is polling well, and the atmosphere of gloom and doom that had beset both the Democratic Center and the Left has given way to cautious optimism. But the MAGA base remains intact, and the election is still close.

Ballot initiatives offer a tool “to not only block authoritarian rule and ideology, but to build a world where all of us thrive and live with dignity — the world we deserve.”

COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths have been rising since May 2024, with the highest rates seen in adults 65 and older and infants under 6 months old. Therefore, health experts recommend getting the updated COVID-19 shot as soon as possible.

The DNC was a messy affair, with highs and lows, some small victories and some setbacks. It’s imperative to recognize the victories won and continue to engage with allies in the political process because change will come—only if this work continues.

Smith is outmaneuvering the Supreme Court majority by presenting a threshold question for Judge Chutkan to decide: Is a candidate campaigning for president who happens to be the incumbent operating in an official presidential capacity?

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The raids have triggered outrage and cries of voter suppression in a state with a long history of discrimination against citizens of Mexican descent, which helped give rise to LULAC, founded in 1929.

Debates over how to describe conflicts in Gaza, Myanmar and elsewhere are channeling a controversy as old as the word itself. The Genocide Convention emerged as an immediate response to World War II-today its being renegotiated to bring it up to date