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The figure has grown 70% from 2019 and is close to 20,000 people despite warnings by the US State Department about high rates of violent crime and kidnappings

The US president addressed Congress in an event marked by China, the Ukraine war, gun and police reform and calls for unity in defense of democracy

A growing desperation to fill hundreds of slots in recent years drove the department to increase incentives and lower its standards

His speech before a politically divided Congress comes as the nation struggles to make sense of confounding cross-currents at home and abroad

The crisis sparked by the incursion of a Chinese spy balloon in US airspace is set to weigh heavily on the president’s most important speech of the year

The White House said the guests were invited ‘because they personify issues or themes to be addressed by the president’ or they embody the administration’s policies

On Tuesday night, the president of the US will stand before a joint session of Congress for the first time since the midterm elections. Look for new faces and fresh political dynamics, coupled with attention to some old problems brought back into painful focus by recent events

There was no evidence the attack was carried out or any record of damage to local substations

Republican leaders of the statehouse, in coordination with Governor DeSantis, ordered the legislature to convene in a special session to restructure the Reedy Creek Improvement District

The judges ruled in early January that the boundaries passed last year by the Republican-dominated state legislature marked an intentional splitting of Black voters

Prosecutors have said those witnesses are key to their case in Murdaugh’s double murder trial to show he was worried his alleged crimes were about to be discovered

Many professionals acknowledge having suffered or known about abuses that were not reported, indicating that the #MeToo movement has failed to make inroads in the country

The 7.8 magnitude tremor is the strongest recorded in the region in more than 20 years

The judicial process against the former head of Mexican public security has seen several high-ranking narcos reveal the horrors and excesses of the war on drugs

Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng said he lodged a formal complaint over the ‘US attack on a Chinese civilian unmanned airship by military force’

There is no confession, no surveillance camera footage, no recording of the victims’ final moments

The president was expected to devote much of his speech to highlighting his efforts over the past two years to create jobs, fight inflation and improve the nation’s infrastructure

Separate special counsels are investigating the documents found in the possession of the former and incumbent president

The president believes the policies adopted under his watch can fill the US with new factories and protect against climate change

In a secret warehouse in the old capital of the Confederacy, authorities store monuments that were removed from public places during the 2020 anti-racism protests. EL PAÍS received exclusive access to the location where the fate of these objects is being decided

The skateboard legend says he will donate half of the proceeds of autographed photos of himself and BMX rider Rick Throne to a memorial fund for the 29-year-old

States with early contests play a major role in determining the nominee

Beijing responded that it reserved the right to ‘take further actions’ and criticized Washington for ‘an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice’

Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon earned $243 billion in 2022, down 24% from the previous year

The agenda marks a sustained focus from DeSantis on issues such as immigration, election fraud, gender and sexuality

Hundreds of party leaders from around the country interrupted him with cries of “Four more years! Four more years!”

Nearly all of the pandemic restrictions put in place by Newsom have been lifted