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MEXICO CITY — Each September, Mexico’s president appears before a crowd of tens of thousands in the nation’s central square to perform the grito, the shout of independence commemorating the country’s break from colonial rule. This year, for the first time, a woman will lead the masses in chants of “Long live Mexico!” Monday’s ceremony in Mexico…

Professor Kevin Waite had just finished a seminar on the run-up to the American Civil War on Friday morning when a student cautiously raised her hand. “Can I ask about the Charlie Kirk situation?” she said in Waite’s classroom at the University of Texas at Dallas. The student, he said, wondered whether recent events carried…

The crew had just poured a concrete foundation on a vacant lot in Altadena when I pulled up the other day. Two workers were loading equipment onto trucks and a third was hosing the fresh cement that will sit under a new house. I asked how things were going, and if there were any problems…

Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, grew up in a quiet, close-knit community in Washington, Utah, where most neighbors attended the same neighborhood church and know each other by their first name. “I’m shocked,” said Kristin Schwiermann, a 66-year-old neighbor. “That’s not the kid I knew.” Like most of the…

A few hours after Charlie Kirk was killed, Sean Feucht, an influential right-wing Christian worship leader, filmed a selfie video from his home in California, his eyes brimming with tears. The shooting of one of the nation’s most prominent conservative activists, Feucht declared, was no less than “a line in the sand” in a country…

Ten days after a Russian man was mysteriously killed among a crowd of tens of thousands at Burning Man, Russian media is reporting that the man’s father has asked President Trump to have the FBI investigate. Vadim Kruglov, 37, had been living in Washington state and, according to friends’ Instagram accounts, was making his first…

OREM, Utah — Authorities unveiled grainy photos Thursday of a man clad in a black, long-sleeved T-shirt, dark sunglasses and a baseball cap who they said was “of interest” in the fatal shooting of influential right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah college campus. The man, captured on security camera footage clenching his fists and walking up…

When a door slammed shut in the childhood home of Andry Hernández Romero, he wasn’t just startled. He winced, recoiling from the noise. Nearly a month had passed since Hernández Romero, a 32-year-old makeup artist, and 251 other Venezuelans were released from a notorious Salvadoran mega-prison. In a Zoom interview in August from Venezuela, Hernández…

Over the next few days, we are going to hear politicians, commentators and others remind us that political violence is never OK, and never the answer. That is true. There is no room in a healthy democracy, or a moral society, for killings based on vengeance or beliefs — political, religious, whatever. But the sad…

SEOUL — The immigration raid that snatched up hundreds of South Koreans last week sent a disconcerting message to companies in South Korea and elsewhere: America wants your investment, but don’t expect special treatment. Images of employees being shackled and detained like criminals have outraged many South Koreans. The fallout is already being felt in delays to…