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  • In a photo taken with a fisheye lens, jockeys and their horses make their way past the grand stand at the Churchill Downs before the 10th race at 138th Kentucky Derby horse race on May 5, 2012, in Louisville, Ky. (Associated Press)

    Police probe Churchill Downs death as homicide

    Police suspect homicide in the death of a racetrack worker whose body was discovered just yards from the barn of this year's Kentucky Derby winner, although investigators said there was no apparent link to the storied annual race.


  • ** FILE ** In this April 19, 2011, file photo, a member of the National Guard checks on his colleague inside a Border Patrol Skybox near the Hidalgo International Bridge in Hidalgo, Texas. An unprecedented surge of children caught trudging through South Texas scrublands or crossing at border ports of entry without their parents has sent government and nonprofit agencies that handle their shelter, legal representation and reunifications scrambling to expand their services. (AP Photo/Delcia Lopez, File)

    Child migrant surge to U.S. stresses support system

    An unprecedented surge of children caught trudging through South Texas scrublands or crossing at border ports of entry into the U.S. without their families has sent government and nonprofit agencies scrambling to expand their shelter, legal representation and reunification services.


  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Castro's Secrets'

    Britan Latell, for four decades the CIA's ranking authority on all matters Castro and Cuban, has ripped the shroud off the circumstances behind one of the more flagrant instances of journalistic malpractice ever in the Washington media.


  • U.S. tags Guatemalan as a drug trafficker

    Guatemalan national Horst Walter Overdick Mejia, described by U.S. law enforcement authorities as a "critical link" in the drug trade between Colombian producers and the violent Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, has been named by the State Department as a "specially designated narcotics trafficker."


  • Briefly: Strong aftershock felt in Mexico City

    Mexico was shaken Monday afternoon by a strong apparent aftershock from a powerful earthquake late last month.


  • Trial ordered for Costa Rican in Cabral slaying

    A judge in Guatemala has ordered a Costa Rican man to stand trial for last year's fatal shooting of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral.


  • Suspect in slaying of singer arrives in Guatemala

    A Costa Rican man who authorities say may have links to Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel arrived Wednesday in Guatemala to face charges in last year's fatal shooting of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral.


  • Colombia sends suspect in singer slay to Guatemala

    A Costa Rican man who authorities say may have links to Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel was expelled to Guatemala in connection with last year's fatal shooting of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral.


  • Colombia sends suspect in singer slay to Guatemala

    A Costa Rican man who authorities say may have links to Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel was being expelled to Guatemala on Tuesday in connection with last year's fatal shooting of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral.


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