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Associated PressJanuary 14, 2014 Updated 9 hours ago APATZINGAN, Mexico — Federal forces and heavily armed vigilantes are warily watching each other in a violence-wracked farming area of western Mexico after one deadly clash and a failure by leaders from both sides to work out a deal on disarming.

Early in the morning on January 13, Mexican soldiers clashed with members of an armed citizen’s militia group. Multiple casualties were reported. Mexico’s government recently amped up its presence in the surrounding state of Michoacan after ongoing conflicts between armed civilians and drug cartel members have escalated. A recent push by the vigilante group to drive members of the Caballeros Templarios drug cartel out of the city of Apatzingan has led to an even more complicated situation. While heavily armed soldiers congregated in the center of Apatzingan, other units operating outside of the city tried to disarm some of the...

Two breaking updates on major stories at Conservative Examiner this week merit this special alert. First, the U.S. House of Representatives, as expected, voted Thursday to 'allow Puerto Rico to decide on statehood,' although they already have such a right and have exercised it three times to turn down becoming the 51st state. (From left, Puerto Rico Senate President Thomas Rivera Chatz, Gov. Luis Fortuno and Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill where they spoke in support of the Puerto Rico Democracy Act. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)). What the representatives actually did was to...

A series of disturbing events over the last few days on the part of the White House make it clear that the Obama Administration has, in effect, declared war on the American citizens and U.S. allies. Fact #1. Today the Administration threatened Israel with an abstaining vote at the United Nations unless it ceases the building of settlements in East Jerusalem. Throughout its history, Israel has depended upon the U.S. to be its only 'No' vote on the U.N. Security Council against the anti-Jews who sit at that table. For the U.S. to abstain is tantamount to allowing the U.N....