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25 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: November 11, 2026.
An indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges Edgar Aaron Vazquez Alvarado, known as 'El General,' supplied code words for passing checkpoints and bribed officials on behalf of the former snowboarder's drug network.
Mexico's navy took the alleged head of "Los Rs" in Zapopan, Jalisco, after a shootout. The U.S. wants him on federal drug trafficking and firearms charges.
Prosecutors in Michoacán detain the city's welfare secretary on a concealment charge, bringing arrests in the case to 34, nearly a year after the anti-cartel mayor was shot dead.
César Jáuregui, who ran the Chihuahua raid on a drug lab, faces 5 to 40 years in prison. Experts call the case political and say it sends a bad signal to Washington.
A judge ruled the 2024 camping-trip murders near Ensenada were premeditated; the victims' families followed the sentencing by video link and said the verdict brought some relief.
Trudy, a Category 2 storm with 105 mph winds, threatens life-threatening floods and mudslides in Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco, while Champi's 150 mph winds forced emergency declarations in Guam and the Northern Marianas.
The storm is just short of Category 5 strength and is expected to move inland Sunday. Jalisco has closed schools and begun evacuations, and Puerto Vallarta is boarding up.
Polo's winds peaked at 175 mph after what forecasters called a 'truly remarkable' burst of strengthening. It is expected to skirt the coast of Guerrero and Michoacán rather than make landfall.
The State Department raised the bounty on Juan Carlos Valencia González fivefold and announced $102 million in total rewards for leaders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, six months after Mexican troops killed his stepfather.
University of South Florida satellite data recorded 27 million metric tons of sargassum across the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf in July, following a record 40 million tons in 2025 that never fully dispersed. Quintana Roo businesses report sales down 30 percent.
Ismael Zambada Garcia, 76, who led the Sinaloa Cartel for decades while evading capture, apologized in a Brooklyn courtroom: 'No one wins in a war like this.'
Red geometric panels — some stretching 20 meters — reveal the ceremonial world of hunter-gatherers who roamed Zacatecas between 600 and 1,200 years ago.
WatchForeign Minister Roberto Velasco says Mexico will ask U.S. prosecutors and the Justice Department to charge those responsible for the deaths of 17 of its citizens, days after an ICE officer killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.
Jude Bellingham struck twice in 98 seconds and Harry Kane converted a penalty as England held on with 10 men to hand Mexico its first-ever home defeat at a World Cup and end a 40-year Azteca curse.
The first 48-team World Cup began before a roaring Estadio Azteca, where Mexico beat South Africa 2-0 in a match that set a tournament record for red cards.
The 4.2-million-year-old species, dubbed Ambystoma quetzalcoatli after the Aztec feathered-serpent god, is the first fossil salamander ever named from Mexico and the country's oldest known record of the group.
Sinaloa Cartel insiders reveal how bribes and political support allowed near-total freedom of operation throughout state government.
New federal strategy instructs prosecutors to build drug cases against Mexican officials using terrorism statutes.
Cartel insiders reveal how bribes and political support allowed near-total criminal freedom in Sinaloa state.
WatchThe strategy, written by White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka, reroutes intelligence and special-operations resources toward Western Hemisphere narco-terror networks.
Gov. Rubén Rocha Moya is accused of meeting with El Chapo's sons before his 2021 election and installing officials 'friendly' to their cartel operations.
The American intelligence operatives died when their vehicle crashed while returning from a joint operation with Mexican forces in Chihuahua state.
Americans died Sunday when vehicle crashed returning from joint operation with Mexican forces to dismantle narcotics facilities in Chihuahua state.
The victim was shot near the Pyramid of the Sun while on a guided tour with his family. Mexican police made an arrest within two hours.
President Claudia Sheinbaum threatens legal action over deaths at immigration facilities, escalating diplomatic tensions with the United States.