LAREDO, Texas — A Guatemalan man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to a felony offense and acknowledged his involvement in an attempt to illegally smuggle migrants to the U.S. when a jampacked tractor-tailer truck crashed in Mexico in 2021, killing more than 50 migrants. Daniel Zavala Ramos, 42, faces a possible sentence of life … Read more
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California woman who had been living in the U.S. for 27 years before the Trump administration deported her to Mexico in February reunited with her daughter this week after a judge ordered her return. Mexican citizen Maria de Jesús Estrada Juárez was among the hundreds of thousands of people shielded from … Read more
Key committee votes to exempt oil and gas activity in Gulf of Mexico from Endangered Species Act – CBS News Watch CBS News The Endangered Species Committee voted Tuesday to exempt oil and gas activity in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act protections. CBS News’ Shanelle Kaul has more. Source link
The Mexican navy said Thursday that it was searching for two boats transporting humanitarian aid to Cuba with crew members of several different nationalities on board. The vessels set sail March 20 from Isla Mujeres in Mexico’s southeastern state of Quintana Roo and were due to arrive in Havana on Tuesday or Wednesday this week, … Read more
A Los Angeles jury ruled against Meta and Google on Wednesday, finding the companies liable for reports of damage done to young people by social media. That verdict came less than 24 hours after a similar ruling in New Mexico, where a jury found Meta violated state consumer protection law and endangered children. New Mexico … Read more
SANTA FE, N.M. — A New Mexico jury determined Tuesday that Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms, a verdict that signals a changing tide against tech companies and the government’s willingness to crack down. The landmark decision comes after a nearly … Read more
New Mexico jury finds Meta violated consumer protection law in child safety trial – CBS News Watch CBS News The New Mexico Department of Justice has won a landmark trial against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent has the details. Source link
A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law. The landmark decision comes after a nearly seven-week trial. Jurors sided with state prosecutors who argued that Meta — which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — prioritized profits over safety. … Read more
Mexican authorities found 229 migrants on Monday packed in the back of a truck traveling through the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, the first such encounter in months, marking a potential uptick in migration since President Donald Trump took office. José Manuel Pozos, the state’s deputy government secretary, said that they found migrants trapped in … Read more
A man who is wanted in Colombia and Ecuador for the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito in 2023 was arrested in Mexico and transferred to Colombia, authorities said Wednesday. Ángel Esteban Aguilar Morales, an Ecuadorian national, arrived in Bogota on Wednesday, where he was intercepted at El Dorado Airport by Colombia’s … Read more