JULIE WATSON

Associated Press Writer
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US astronaut says legalize undocumented Mexicans

Spaceman Jose Hernandez said Monday the United States needs to legalize its undocumented immigrants — a rare, public stand for a U.S. astronaut on a political, hot-button issue.

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Body with arms cut off found in Mexican city

Police say a body with both arms cut off was found dumped on a street in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas.

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Mexico's new drug use law worries US police

Mexico now has one of the world's most liberal laws for drug users after eliminating jail time for small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and even heroin, LSD and methamphetamine.

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Military finds one of Mexico's largest meth labs

The Mexican Navy gave reporters a firsthand look Tuesday at what they described as one of the largest methamphetamine labs ever found in the country, with enough ephedrine to produce more than 40 tons of the drug.

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Top security officer quits after Mexican jailbreak

The top security chief of a central Mexican state has resigned after 53 inmates escaped from a prison with the alleged complicity of guards.

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Swine flu scare doesn't stop Mexico's drug war

It seemed an odd precaution, given his risky way of life: A man targeted by drug traffickers was wearing a germ-blocking surgical mask when his bullet-riddled body was found.

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Mexico City shuts itself in amid swine flu fears

Nine-year-old Cecilia Ines Lopez has been watching nine hours of television a day. Her teenage relative has spent so much time on Instant Messenger she complains she has nothing more to say.

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Mexico proposes expanding army's power, wiretaps

A bill that would let Mexico declare temporary states of emergency and expand the army's power in a bloody fight against powerful drug gangs drew immediate fire Thursday from human rights activists who say soldiers should not be doing the job of police.

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Obama brings new tone to Mexico, aiding drug war

As President Barack Obama makes his first visit to Mexico this week, the United States and Mexico seem to have realized they need each other like never before.

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Mexico morgues crowded with mounting drug-war dead

Death froze his exhausted face. The attackers lashed or punctured nearly every part of his body. Then they cut off the dead man's head, wrapped it in a plastic grocery bag and dumped it with his body between two tractor-trailers on a city street.

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Drug gangs drive off cops, terrorize Mexican town

For people caught inside Mexico's drug corridors, life is about keeping your head down and watching your back, especially when the sun dips behind the cactus-studded horizon.

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Mexico City reduces water service as reserves dip

Mexico City shut down a main water pipeline under a new conservation program, cutting service to more than 2 million residents Sunday after some reservoirs dropped to their lowest levels in 16 years.

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Mexican mogul Slim sees opportunity in NY Times

A Mexican billionaire is expanding his empire in the United States in a deal that could make him one of the largest shareholders of The New York Times Co.

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Mexican mogul Slim sees opportunity in NY Times

A Latin American billionaire looks to expand his empire in the United States in a deal that could make him the largest shareholder of The New York Times Co.

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Mexico central bank cuts lending rate to 7.75 pct

Mexico's central bank cut interest rates for the first time since 2006 on Friday to boost the country's slowing economy as it inches toward recession.

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Mexico inflation rises despite global downturn

Mexican consumer prices rose at their fastest pace since 2001 last year, the central bank reported Thursday, complicating the global economic crisis' effect on the country.

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Mexican schools close as children are threatened

Fourth-grader Ricardo Ivan Ortega knows he is a target in this violent city. His school closed temporarily last month after an anonymous note demanded teachers hand over their year-end bonuses — or students would be kidnapped.

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Mexicans in US return home for holidays with less

Nearly 1 million Mexican migrants living in the U.S. are expected to head home for the holidays, but relatively few are returning loaded down with gifts and cash this year.

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In food crisis, Mexican valley offers lessons

On the walls of some farmhouses here, a photo of a one-time Iowa farm boy hangs along with a portrait of the pope. The American long ago wrought a kind of miracle in the wheat fields of this valley, one that today's world hungers for anew.

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Mexico undergoes legal revolution

Mexico is in the midst of a legal revolution, and Cristal Gonzalez is on the front lines.

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Mexicans deported from US face shattered lives

The towering black gate opens silently to an alley with walls of corrugated metal. Scrawled in large white letters on one wall is: "The End."

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Global AIDS prevention gives short shrift to gays

Jorge Saavedra's moment of truth came in the middle of an impassioned speech to 5,000 people about the paltry amount of money being spent to stop the spread of AIDS among gay men.

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Activists, UN want HIV travel restrictions erased

AIDS experts praised the United States on Tuesday for ending its two-decade ban on HIV-positive people entering the country, and said travel restrictions by dozens of other countries are hurting efforts to control the epidemic.

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HIV-positive migrants accuse US of neglect

Olga Arellano sobs as she recalls how her HIV-positive daughter spent two months succumbing to infections in a U.S. migrant detention center, complaining that she didn't see a doctor or get the right medicine.

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Researchers make noises of pre-Columbian society

Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.

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