Ken Ellingwood

U.S. military officials in Haiti said the use of three additional airfields and the capital's seaport beginning Thursday will boost the flow of food, water and medical attention to earthquake...

Torrential rains in El Salvador triggered flooding and mudslides that left at least 124 people dead across the Central American nation, officials said Sunday. Dozens of others were reported missing,...

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Arturo Chavez Chavez as Mexico's attorney general, despite objections by human-rights activists who assailed his role as prosecutor in the northern state of Chihuahua. Chavez,...

In the parched Mexican countryside, the corn is wilting, the wheat stunted. And in this vast and thirsty capital, officials are rationing water and threatening worse cuts as Mexico endures...

MEXICO Elections restore party's luster Sweeping victory recalls PRI's 70-year run as nation's dominant political force MEXICO CITY -- It was an old-style landslide for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which...

Rescuers fought smoke and tore at walls to get to those trapped inside. One desperate father used his pickup as a battering ram. Many of the victims were too tiny...

Army Capt. Claudio Montane wants one thing clear from the start: This place is not a narco-museum. The point is not to glorify drug traffickers. "Its purpose is to show...

The Mexican Senate on Thursday handily approved an energy reform package designed to modernize the state-owned oil monopoly and boost declining production. The seven measures, watered down from changes proposed...

Mahmoud Abdelbari huddled inside a grimy concrete border passage Monday, caught in a no man's land between dangerous Gaza and a shuttered exit to Israel. He was among 300 Gaza...

Fighting between rival Palestinian forces continued to rage across the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least 15 people in violence that laid waste to a days-old cease-fire. As gunmen...