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Wilfredo Lee/APTexas hospitals who are enrolled in state health plans, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program will start asking patients' immigration status in November. Florida has had a similar law since 2023. Neither state will report immigration status answers to law enforcement. -
MARIAN CARRASQUERO/NYT/NYTNSGoing forward, Mexican voters will now elect judges at every level, dramatically restructuring the third branch of government.
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The percentage of U.S. residents born outside the country reached its highest level in more than a century in 2023. That's one of the findings of a survey of American life released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. -
Guy Marlon Dure, a Haitian-American entrepreneur and VH1 star, said it “hurt a part of my heart” when during Tuesday’s debate he heard former President Trump amplify the false rumor that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting dogs and cats to eat them. -
Surveillance video showing what appears to be a group of Spanish-speaking armed men entering an Aurora, Colorado, apartment complex has stoked fears about people in the U.S. illegally. But city officials and apartment residents have disputed the claims. -
Alberto Fujimori, whose decadelong presidency began with triumphs righting Peru's economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in autocratic excess that sent him to prison, has died. -
COMMENTARY If Florida falsehood-mongers want to spread lies about Haitians in Ohio, they should be fair demonizers and push the lie that all Ohioans commit felonies in Florida. What about OUR pets?! -
Gov. Ron DeSantis and other defendants Monday argued a federal judge should dismiss a class-action lawsuit challenging the Florida-backed flights of 49 migrants from Texas to Massachusetts in 2022. -
TelevisaUnivision announced on Monday that Mr. Ramos and the network had mutually agreed not to renew his contract. -
In recent weeks, Venezuelan journalists have found innovative ways to keep independent journalism alive — that's after the country's recent presidential election made the job of doing journalism even more difficult. -
El Salvador’s military says the national police director, other high-ranking police officials and a fugitive banker were among nine people killed in a military helicopter crash in a rural part of the country. -
The players have names like José and Antonio and grew up in a South American nation near Antarctica. But their fervor for the Palestinian cause and bright red, white, black and green-colored jerseys is unmatched.
