As Mexico cracks down on migrants, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gains leverage with Washington

Mexico City CNN  —  Last month, as the Biden administration scrambled to manage the latest wave of migrants overwhelming the US southern border, top US immigration authorities crossed into Mexico for an emergency meeting. Seated around a Ciudad Juárez conference room, the officials and their Mexican counterparts drafted a 15-point plan to help defuse the…

Covid inquiry rejects clinicians’ request for anonymity

Getty Images The provision of PPE for healthcare workers is being explored in this part of the Covid inquiry (stock image) The chair of the Covid inquiry has refused an application from the UK Health Security Agency to keep the identities of two junior clinicians secret. Lawyers for UKHSA applied for an order preventing publication…

X rivals Bluesky, Threads see influx of users after Trump election

Left-leaning social media users have reportedly flocked to upstarts Bluesky and Threads — two rival apps to X, the site owned by Donald Trump-backing billionaire Elon Musk — after the former president’s victory last week. Bluesky, the decentralized platform which was founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, added 700,000 users since last Tuesday, growing…

Leon Bridges on returning to his Texas roots with new album inspired by Fort Worth

Leon Bridges, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, is back on tour following the release of his fourth album, “Leon,” a project he describes as a “love letter” to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas. Bridges kicked off the tour in September at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Bridges spent his early days playing at open mic…

The women vying to become Mexico’s next president

CNN  —  The governing party called it a ceremonial passing of the baton. But the opposition lambasted it as a “passing of the scepter.” Constitutionally barred from running for reelection, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sought to show last month, in a very public way, that presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum has his blessing. So…