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A 14-year-old girl died just days after she had a boob job and butt lift without her father’s knowledge — with her mom’s plastic-surgeon boyfriend now under investigation for possible negligent homicide, according to reports. Paloma Nicole Arellano Escobedo died Saturday in a hospital in Durango, Mexico, after being in a coma with a swollen brain and heart problems following the secret surgery a week earlier, according to local newspaper El Siglo de Durango. “At the funeral, some relatives told me her breasts were larger than what she had before, and when I mentioned it to her mother, she told...

A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.”President Trump has decided that the United States is engaged in a formal “armed conflict” with drug cartels his team has labeled terrorist organizations and that suspected smugglers for such groups are “unlawful combatants,” the administration said in a confidential notice to Congress this week. The notice was sent to several congressional committees and obtained by The New York Times. It adds new detail to the administration’s thinly articulated legal rationale for why three U.S. military strikes the president ordered...

An alleged Sinaloa cartel leader admitted President Trump’s aggressive border policies have made the illegal work of the powerful Mexican drug gang more difficult in an interview with CNN. An anonymous member of El Chapo’s former gang explained that Trump’s immigration and drug policies have put a damper on their black-market tradecraft in a bizarre interview with the news station’s senior national correspondent, David Culver, in the back of an SUV. “From killing to coordinating smuggling operations, he says he’s done it all,” Culver said, referring to Trump. “Do you think what President Trump has been doing has been making...

They might be small but grasshopper mice are top level carnivores. AWWWWOOOOOO! Image Credit: Minden Pictures/Alamy You might think that only werewolves howl at the Moon, but this spooky season, we’re bringing you another creature with a lot to say at nighttime. Meet the grasshopper mouse; it might be small, but it has one heck of a voice. There are three species of grasshopper mouse that are closely related to deer mice: the northern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys leucogaster), the southern grasshopper mouse (O. torridus), and Mearns’ grasshopper mouse (O. arenicola). The southern grasshopper mouse is found in northern Mexico and...

The arrest of a woman known as the 'she devil' has lifted the veil on a Mexican cartel scheme to cut babies out of their mothers' womb and sell the infants for less than $14,000 to Americans, US officials have confirmed. Martha Alicia Mendez Aguilar, 44, alias 'La Diabla,' ran a baby trafficking operation for Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in Juarez, Mexico- directly across the border from El Paso, Texas, the National Counterterrorism Center stated after her Sept. 2 arrest. La Diabla had been luring Mexican pregnant women, often poor and looking for work, to remote areas of the...

An OnlyFans model has been arrested in Mexico after two popular Colombian musicians were tortured, murdered and chopped into pieces by drug traffickers, according to authorities. Angie Miller was busted a day after the body of her boyfriend, Bayron Sanchez Salazar — known by his stage name B King — was found along with that of fellow musician Jorge Luis Herrera Lemos, aka Regio Clown, in Cocotitlan, just outside of Mexico City, on Sept. 22, according to El Pais. Officials have not revealed how they feel that Miller — who is famous for selling sex toys molded from her private...

European soccer body UEFA is moving toward a vote to suspend its member federation Israel over the war in Gaza, people familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press on Thursday. A majority of the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) 20-member executive committee is expected to support any vote in favor of suspending Israeli teams from international play, two sources told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. Such a step would prevent Israeli national and clubs teams from playing in international competitions including next year's World Cup. Israel's men's team is...

Last September, Ryan Wesley Routh waited hours to take a shot at Donald Trump. The man, who reportedly conned his way through Ukraine, stayed with a GoPro and a scoped AK-style rifle for 12 hours at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. This attempt on Trump’s life came weeks after the shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the president dodged a fatal headshot by millimeters. Routh waited in the shrubbery for Trump, and the president got within 300 yards until he was discovered by a Secret Service agent who opened fire, causing Routh to flee....

Simply put, illegal immigration is a felony under Mexican law. In fact, Article 123 of the General Law of Population mandates that “a penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five hundred thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally.” Mexican Immigration Enforcement Other penalties regarding illegal immigration per the General Law of Population are as follows: *Article 125 – Foreigners who have legal issues involving immigration will be at risk of deportation from Mexico rather than being sentenced to prison. *Article 126 – Any foreigner who...

Five law enforcement officers were shot, three fatally, in York County, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, state police said.The officers were serving a warrant in North Codorus Township at the time, law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation confirmed to ABC News.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A federal grand jury has charged four people with immigration crimes, the U.S. DOJ said. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that four people were indicted for illegally reentering the United States after having previously been deported: Victor Alfonso Contreras-Gonzalez, 41, a citizen of Mexico; Arturo Ayala-Aviles, 33, a citizen of El Salvador; Jose Jacuinde-Gutierrez , 32, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with illegally reentering the United States after having previously been deported and distribution of cocaine. Marco Antonio Sanchez-Avila, 47, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with being a felon in possession of...

Chagas disease, a potentially deadly condition caused by an infected triatomine insect or "kissing bug," may be becoming endemic in the United States, according to a new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. "Autochthonous (or, locally acquired) human cases have been reported in 8 states, most notably in Texas. Labeling the United States as non-Chagas disease-endemic perpetuates low awareness and underreporting," the report noted, adding the insect has been reported in 32 states. Other states with human cases include California, Arizona, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Arkansas.

Mexico’s ruling class is coming apart at the seams—and the panic is all about one thing: whether to finally get serious about cartel terror with U.S. help. A full-on melee broke out on the floor of Mexico’s Congress of the Union on Thursday after a debate over possible American involvement in crushing the cartels turned into shoves, swings, and a staffer getting knocked to the ground. The brawl laid bare what many on both sides of the border already know: the status quo is unsustainable, and the political left would rather throw punches than confront the criminal armies bleeding Mexico—and...

As ICE steps up raids in California, some illegals flee back to Mexico leaving rooms empty and sending rents down for shops and people. And the BBB has allocated another nearly $500 Billion to ICE to employ even more agents to enforce immigration laws.

It seems that residents of Mexico City are unhappy about the recent influx of Americans moving to their area. In fact, according to the Los Angeles Times, some residents are downright livid.

[Catholic Caucus] ‘Viva Cristo Rey’: Father Sedano led the faithful witness of the CristerosOn September 7, 1927, Father Gumersindo Sedano y Palencia refused to compromise his faith and was martyred during a time of great persecution against the Church in Mexico.Punish one, teach a hundred. – AnonymousWith his neck roped to a heavy branch on the eucalyptus tree, the priest’s corpse – on display – was to serve as a lesson to others.Soldiers ordered photographers to snap shots of the dead cleric – with his head at an unnatural bend, clothing spattered with blood, and his bare toes resting gently,...

[Catholic Caucus] “We Should Not Ask for the Persecution to End”Two evils, greed and faction, are the destruction of all justice.Thomas More (1478-1535)An ancient tree of great renown – considered a relic by Revolutionaries – stood proudly in the town of Colima.For at the base of that Zalate tree – a gnarled, twisted rock fig – the newly enthroned Mexican President Benito Pablo Juárez Garcia (1806-72) once rested in its shade, as he sat upon a stone, accompanied by members of his cabinet, on March 25, 1858.The famous Zalate tree of ColimaSubsequently, that rock fig was no longer just any...

Last night was supposed to be the deadline for American diplomats in Venezuela to vacate the country as ordered by dictator Nicolas Maduro. After the United States, along with Canada, several South American nations and the EU moved to declare Maduro’s presidency illegitimate, the tyrant had basically cut off relations with America. The White House refused to obey the order and everyone was holding their breath, waiting to see what would happen next. But at the last minute, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry sent out a “never mind” announcement and said the decision was on hold for thirty days. But that doesn’t...

Former Gaza hostage Ilana Gritzewsky recalled in a Wednesday UN Security Council meeting that during her captivity, when she was moved locations, she was forced to walk hand in hand with a terrorist as if she were his wife, so nobody would notice she was a hostage. “They grabbed me by the hair, hit me in the stomach, causing me to lose my breath. They dragged me across the floor, lifted me, and threw me against the wall. They pointed guns at me, hit me, and tried to film me with my phone. "I raised my hands, told them I...

Guadalajara, a World Cup site next year, lies in a cartel stronghold. As Trump considers attacking drug gangs, it offers a cautionary tale.Carmen Lucia Carrillo spotted her son immediately. Daniel was dressed in black, stretching his lanky frame over the cars, squirting soapy liquid. Handsome and outgoing, with a gap-toothed grin, he always did like to look sharp, even with a rag dangling from his back pocket. She had just bought him those jeans, from a trendy Mexican discount store, Beware of the Dog. A half-hour later, Daniel vanished. Two men — one carrying a pistol — grabbed him and...