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FILE - Newly-sworn in President Claudia Sheinbaum addresses supporters in the Zócalo, Mexico City's main square, on Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexico’s president says she is confident that a tariff war with the U.S. can be averted

President Biden on Thursday said he hoped Trump would rethink his plan to impose tariffs, saying it could “screw up†relationships with close allies.
FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the House GOP conference, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (Allison Robbert/Pool via AP, File)

Trump claims a win on immigration after a call with Mexico’s president. But she suggests no change

Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - Eddie Escobedo, a trafficker affiliated with the Sinaloa cartel, went to federal prison in 2018 for selling huge amounts of marijuana. After his release, Escobedo started a chain of popular hibachi restaurants and swore he'd gone straight. In 2023, he was gunned down at an after-hours party near Compton. His son, Eddie Escobedo Jr. (pictured), is carrying on his father's hibachi business, Besthibachi (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
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Son of ‘El Mago,’ Sinaloa cartel legend killed in L.A., seeks new family legacy

San Pedro, CA, Thursday, June 13, 2024 - Workers at the Marine Exchange who instruct ships over radio how to navigate their way into the port. The Marine Exchange sits on top of an old WWI bunker and has an incredible vantage point of the port. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Bluff or existential threat? As Trump vows tariffs on all imports from Canada, Mexico and China, leaders wonder if he’s serious

Former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press after being formally charged by the federal police with attempted coup, at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro participated in a 2022 coup plot, unsealed police report says

Americans will throw out 316 million pounds of food on Thanksgiving. Here’s how it fuels climate change

Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate Yamandú Orsi becomes country’s new president

Uruguay’s once-dull election has become a dead heat in the presidential runoff

Brazilian police formally accuse former President Bolsonaro of 2022 coup attempt

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