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A local councilwoman was gunned down Friday as she left her home in Mexico, marking the second female politician to be killed after Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman to win the country's presidency last week.
Only six to eight critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises were sighted this year in the Gulf of California.
The murders occurred in an industrial city in the state of Guanajuato where drug cartels have been fighting bloody turf battles for years.
Two children and four women were killed and two men survived because they hid on the roof, officials said.
Esmeralda Garzon is the second female politician to be killed in Mexico since Claudia Sheinbaum was elected president.
The U.S. has sanctioned Los Lobos, an Ecuadorian crime gang that officials say is behind much of the violence shaking the country.
President Biden's new immigration policy was met with confusion and criticism, especially among migrants, as it went into effect Wednesday. The new order authorizes immigration officials at the southern border to deport large numbers of migrants without processing their asylum claims. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano has more.
Thousands of migrants may be deported instead of staying in the U.S. while their asylum claims are considered as President Biden's major executive order goes into effect. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano has more.
President Biden signed an executive order Tuesday that amounts to his toughest move so far to control the number of migrants coming across the U.S.-Mexico border. The actions allow migrants to be deported before their asylum claims are processed. CBS News' Nancy Cordes and Camilo Montoya-Galvez have the details.
The Arizona Legislature approved a proposal to ask voters to make it a state crime for noncitizens to enter the state through Mexico at any location other than a port of entry.
Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa's murder comes after Claudia Sheinbaum's landslide victory injected hope for change in a country riven by gender-based violence.
Claudia Sheinbaum is viewed as less combative and more data-driven than current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Mexico's projected presidential winner, Claudia Sheinbaum, will become the first woman president in the country's 200-year history.
Mexico has elected Claudia Sheinbaum as its first female and first Jewish president. Enrique Acevado has the details.
A woman has been elected president for the first time in Mexico's 200-year history. Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor, is the projected winner after Sunday's election. Ryan Berg, director of the Americas program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joins CBS News to discuss how Sheinbaum's win could impact U.S.-Mexico relations.
Mexico has elected its first woman president. Claudia Sheinbaum has promised to continue her predecessor's social welfare programs, including a universal pension for the elderly. Maya Averbuch, economy and government reporter in Bloomberg News' Mexico bureau, joins CBS News to discuss Sheinbaum's plans for the country.
Mexico elects first female president; swimmer injured in shark attack in Southern California.
President Biden is expected to issue an executive order this week to partially shut down asylum processing along the U.S.-Mexico border. CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang has more on that and the felony gun possession case against the president's son.
Climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum is projected to be Mexico's presidential election winner, making her the country's first female president.
Climate scientist and former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum held an irreversible lead Sunday in the race that would make her Mexico's first female president, according to an official quick count.
Mexicans were voting Sunday in an election that is likely to give the country its first woman president. Enrique Acevedo has more.
Eliseo Imperial Castro, who was wanted by the U.S., was the nephew of Sinaloa cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
Millions in Mexico are preparing to head to the polls Sunday to elect their next president. Claudia Sheinbaum, Xóchitl Gálvez and Jorge Álvarez Máynez are still in the running. N Más anchor and CBS News correspondent Enrique Acevedo has the latest.
Footage showed Alfredo Cabrera smiling and flanked by fans before he was shot several times. Officials said "the alleged assailant was killed at the scene."
Thirty candidates have been killed in Mexico this campaign season, according to the nongovernmental organization Data Civica.
Americans are concerned about effect of shutdown on economy, amid unease about jobs and inflation.
Tropical Storm Priscilla was strengthening Sunday in the Pacific Ocean, off the southwestern coast of Mexico.
In an interview with CBS News, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said of the Supreme Court's emergency orders in the Trump cases, "This isn't the final decision."
Preparing for the threats of tomorrow, the U.S. Air Force is testing drones piloted by artificial intelligence alongside aircraft flown by humans – and is teaching AI how to fight, a potential revolution in warfare.
The statement comes amid clashes between protesters and federal agents in Broadview, Illinois, and other reported ICE activity around the city of Chicago.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, issued the temporary restraining order, which is set to expire on Oct. 18, according to court records.
Rival gunmen started shooting at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama's capital city Saturday night, police said.
Mark Sanchez, who is a Fox Sports analyst, was arrested on multiple misdemeanor charges at an Indianapolis hospital, police said.
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents shot a woman in Broadview, Illinois, after they said they were rammed and boxed in by cars Saturday.