In his first years in office, he partly delivered on his promises, providing school supplies and uniforms, building hospitals and reducing the price of medicine. He made conciliatory speeches, apologizing for the right-wing government’s massacres of civilians during the civil war and, in 2010, for the assassination in 1980 of Archbishop Óscar Romero, a fierce…
The leader of Canada’s most populous province and the heart of its vital auto industry said on Friday that he would call early elections because he needed a stronger hand to deal with President Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on Canadian exports. “With a strong mandate, we will be able to fight with Donald Trump…
Colombia will not accept deportation flights from the United States until the Trump administration provides a process to treat Colombian migrants with “dignity and respect,” the country’s president, Gustavo Petro, said on Sunday in a series of posts on X. Mr. Petro also said that Colombia had already turned away military planes carrying Colombian deportees….
new video loaded: ‘We Couldn’t Stay’: A California Family’s Life After Evacuating transcript Back transcript ‘We Couldn’t Stay’: A California Family’s Life After Evacuating Shortly after the fires began in Los Angeles, Bethany Martinez and her daughter evacuated their home on the Altadena-Pasadena border after losing power and heat. They’re waiting until they feel it’s…
A couple in Canada were returning home from walking their dogs some months ago when they found a burst of dusty debris on their walkway. They turned to their security-camera footage for answers and found it showed a mysterious puff of smoke appearing on the tidy walkway where the mystery splotch was. The source of…
There was not a flame in sight when a team of firefighters, newly arrived from Mexico, set out on Tuesday to search through the brush-covered land above the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. But their mission was essential: to look for traces of smoke and embers left behind by the Palisades fire, which had…
Yeah, usually I go out in the mornings, take a ride up and down the streets, make sure everybody’s OK, make sure everybody’s got water. I grew up out here since I was a tiny kid, born and raised, and I don’t even recognize these streets. Everybody needs to evacuate. But I was still here….
The Biden Administration said on Friday that it was offering $25 million for information leading to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela. The announcement is Washington’s retaliatory measure for Mr. Maduro’s decision to assume a third term in office on Friday. Mr. Maduro has presented no evidence that he won a July…
President-elect Donald J. Trump said Tuesday that he planned to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” one of several foreign policy proposal that left world leaders reeling. “It has a beautiful ring,” he said of the proposed name change for the body of water that borders several U.S….
The image of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau receiving a vaccine against the coronavirus, like those of other world leaders, was meant to convey a reassuring public health message. It also put prim and buttoned-up politicians in the rare, if sometimes awkward, position of showing more skin. When Mr. Trudeau rolled up his sleeve, it exposed…
