Extortion is crippling businesses across Mexico, forcing many to shut down. A Mexico City shop owner shared his ordeal, which began in 2019 with threatening calls demanding payments.

A terminally ill detainee died in NYCDOC custody a day after his lawyer sought release. He was the 8th death in custody this year.

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — A confrontation erupted Thursday between protesters and federal officials carrying out a raid on a Southern California farm, with authorities throwing canisters that sprayed what looked like smoke into the air to disperse the crowd.

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