The Associated Press

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Thursday he will hold a “unity” rally on the border in Tijuana two days before the U.S. is set to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department’s internal watchdog says rotting food, moldy and dilapidated bathrooms and agency practices at immigration detention facilities may violate detainees’ rights.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow has no plans to send troops to shore up Venezuela’s embattled leader.

PHOENIX (AP) — The federal government has stopped paying for English-language courses and legal services at facilities that hold immigrant children around the country, imposing budget cuts it says are necessary at a time when record numbers of unaccompanied children are arriving at the border.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexico-based La Luz del Mundo church said Wednesday that its leader and “apostle” Naasón Joaquín García, who was arrested in California on charges of human trafficking and child rape, remains the spiritual leader of the group, which claims 5 million followers in 58 countries. It also strongly denied the charges.

CAMOTÁN, Guatemala (AP) — Flies buzzed around the drinking water and food in the home of Ericka Gutiérrez Vásquez, as her 6-year-old son, Darwin, lay bedridden with diarrhea and vomiting.

A seventh round knockout upended boxing’s most glamorous weight class and made Ruiz, the son of immigrants raised in a U.S.-Mexico border town, an overnight folk hero among many people of Mexican ancestry in the United States.

Mark Morgan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency would continue to prioritize deportations of people who have criminal histories, but that no one should be exempt from enforcement.

“We’re going to see if we can do something. But I think it’s more likely that the tariffs go on,” the President from London.

Public sector employees have been marching for weeks, accusing President Juan Orlando Hernández of trying to privatize the health and education systems.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest on scheduled talks between the U.S. and Mexico.

President Trump all but taunted negotiators for a quick resolution.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The latest on Venezuela’s political crisis (all times local).

CÚCUTA, COLOMBIA (AP) — The latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local):

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — Carina Black said in interviews this week that the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Costa Rican President boxed her in against a wall inside an elevator at the university in 1998 and then tried to kiss her.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — Those heaping bags of fentanyl and plastic tubs of crystal meth, heroin and cocaine offer no sign that the cartel has been weakened, lost sway over its traditional territory in northwestern Mexico or seen its international reach curtailed by the loss of its notorious leader.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — The Houston-based refining company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuelan state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, known by its acronym PDVSA.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — The caravan is the first in recent months to head toward Texas instead of California.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — The struggle for power resurged this year when congress leader Juan Guaidó declared himself interim president, saying Nicolás Maduro’s re-election in May was fraudulent.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — The agreement involves more than $17 billion worth of government bonds backed by a sales-and-use tax.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — Maduro, for his part, stood defiant, accusing the United States of preparing a coup in the South American country and rejecting a U.S.-backed effort to send emergency food and medicine into his country.