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Politics

Claudia Sheinbaum takes office as the first female president of Mexico

The politician took office at the end of this Tuesday as the first female president of Mexico for the period from 2024 to 2030

Immigration

U.S. expands asylum restrictions at the southern border one month before elections

The new changes come in the middle of a fierce election battle campaign in which migration issues have become one of the central points of the debate between the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris and her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump

Crime

U.S. charges Russian nationals with billion-dollar money laundering scheme on secret cryptocurrency exchanges

​​​The Justice Department confiscated web domains for multiple illicit cryptocurrency exchanges and allege that the defendants' money laundering services and payment systems served cybercrime markets, ransomware groups, and hackers responsible for data breaches of large U.S. companies

Education

Latina educator to lead NYC school system as current chancellor steps down amid federal corruption probes

The daughter of a single mother from Puerto Rico was born and raised in the Bronx and was the first in her family to graduate from high school

Human Rights

Meryl Streep at the United Nations: "A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan"

During a debate forum, it was also noted that at least 1.4 million girls were banned from secondary education in 2024 in the Middle Eastern country

Crime

Justice Dept. convicts Florida man of sex trafficking nearly a dozen women and girls

“The defendant used despicable and horrendous means to terrorize and force nearly a dozen women and girls to engage in commercial sexual activity,” said the deputy attorney general

Immigration

Special missing person's search team locates Cuban family that disappeared after arriving at Mexican airport

The Specialized Immediate Search Group (GEBI), of the Attorney General's Office of the state of Nuevo Léon, issued search reports to find the whereabouts of eight Cubans

Drug trafficking

U.S. convicts son of Mexico's most wanted cartel leader

Despite his young age, Rubén Oseguera-González rose in ranks to become second in command of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)

Crime

Alaska man arrested for threatening to kill U.S. Supreme Court justices and their families

Anastasiou is indicted on nine counts of threatening a federal judge and 13 counts of threatening in interstate commerce

Human Rights

Hero: Cuban activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara given 2024 Rafto Prize for human rights

The institution's ruling highlights that the 36 year-old Cuban, currently in prison, “has been arrested countless times for his activism”