MEXICO CITY – Migrant rights activists said Tuesday that about 200 Central American migrants hope to re-start a journey to hold a “Viacrucis” protest in Mexico City, after highway immigration checkpoints stymied their trip last week. For several years, migrants have carried wooden crosses in protest marches in Mexico around …

MEXICO CITY – Gunfights and blockades of burning vehicles have been reported in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas. The U.S. consulate in Matamoros said in message Friday that it had “learned of several firefights and roadblocks throughout the city of Reynosa,” and it recommended that …

BEIRUT – The Lebanese army says it arrested eight wanted militants, including a soldier who deserted to join the Islamic State group and four Syrians. An army statement late Thursday said the arrests came during a raid earlier in the day in the northern town of Akkar. The eight are …

‘Kill Bill’ |Elvis Costello Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill’: A Pulp Fiction Sequel Success is a double-edged sword as we all know. Tomorrow, Miramax releases one of the worst films in its history, a misbegotten comedy called “Duplex”that stars Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore in a pale rip-off of “Meet the Parents.” …

RALEIGH, N.C. – Armed robbers stole $4 million in gold on Sunday from a truck traveling north along Interstate 95 from Florida to Massachusetts, authorities said Monday. The two security guards working for Transvalue Inc. of Miami reported pulling off to the side of the interstate about 6 p.m. Sunday …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Snow falling off a Boston-area ice rink roof buried a man and pummeled four other people Wednesday as they were walking on a path near the rink, police said. The man was partially dug out by his brother and a rink employee before firefighters arrived to free …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Nashville prosecutor has been fired after reports surfaced that he made sterilization of women part of plea negotiations in some cases. Former Assistant District Attorney Brian Holmgren confirmed Wednesday that he was fired from the Davidson County District Attorney’s office. He declined to comment specifically on …

So Iranian President Ahmadinejad has a new blog and it works in that “senile grandma in the attic” sort of way. But other than realizing how much it sounds like Olbermann, it dawned on me that when the elderly, squirrels and crazed dictators start blogging, then blogging is dead. The …

‘Harry Potter’ | The Police | Warner Music Group | Madonna Harry Potter’ Is Running Out of Magic I don’t read the books, so I can’t tell you if the fifth installment of the series, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” is true to the book from which …

New images obtained by a sharp-eyed Martian satellite reveal that some Red Planet features once thought to have been carved by flowing water were in fact created by other processes. The images were taken during the first 100 days of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission and are detailed in …