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Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay makeup artist who came to the United States last year in search of asylum, is one of 238 Venezuelan migrants who were flown from the U.S. to a maximum security prison in El Salvador three weeks ago. President Trump, who campaigned on eradicating the Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua, brokered a deal with El Salvador's president that allows the U.S. to send deportees to the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT. The Trump administration used the Alien Enemies Act, a law not invoked since World War II, to send many of the Venezuelans there,...

Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. The atmosphere is literally heating up, amid a wave of unusual heat, drought, pollution and political violence. Opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez has focused her ire on López Obrador’s “hugs not bullets” policy of not confronting the drug cartels. She faces former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who is running for López Obrador's Morena party. Sheinbaum, who leads in the race, has promised to continue all...

Amy Galvez was amazed by the love and support she found - sometimes from total strangers - after learning her son, Adam, had been killed in Iraq. But it was the patients of the Salt Lake City nurse who gave her the biggest surprise, one that still overwhelms her sense of human grace. The inconspicuous central city office where Galvez works is the daily destination for hundreds of drug addicts battling opiate addiction. While fighting their own battles - many with the help of methadone, which treats the withdrawal symptoms of heroin, morphine and other drugs - Galvez's patients also...