News Briefs Colombia Thousands of Colombians took to the streets yesterday for the seventh straight day of anti-government protests --...

So this is the situation. You have on one side the bad guys, who hold all fire power and are increasingly more willing to use it; the bad gu...

* Mexico: Juan Gabriel, the iconic Mexican singer and songwriter known for such hits as “Siempre en mi Mente” and “Querida”, died on Sunda...

Two Mexican mayors were killed this weekend, part of an ongoing trend, reports the  Associated Press .  Ambrosio Soto, mayor of a township...

Goldie Lou Faught, 75, Harrisonville, Missouri, died Monday, July 27, 2015 at Cass Regional Medical Center in Harrisonville. Funeral servic...

Rival candidates yesterday's presidential election in Honduras have both claimed victory, with just over half the votes counted, reports...

LEGISLATING AND DEFINING VIOLENCE In Brazil , a congressional bill that would roll back gun control measures will be voted on in a committ...

A  new report  from the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program and the Latin American Public Opinion Project at Vanderbilt University surveyed ov...

Colombia's  Constitutional Court ruled  that the various terms of the country's peace deal with rebel group the FARC -- once all of ...

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake centered in northern Oklahoma has shaken the state, with reports of it being felt hundreds of miles away. The U...