Ana Campoy

The humanitarian disaster gripping Syria has once again become a point of global tension: Donald Trump has vowed to retaliate “militarily” against a recent alleged chemical weapons attack that some blame on the Syrian government. Russia has warned the US not to strike. Iran, meanwhile, is threatening to launch its own attack in response to a Monday airstrike on a Syrian military base, which it says was carried out by Israel.

It’s not surprising that California has emerged as Donald Trump’s nemesis on immigration. The Golden State, which has some of the most protective laws for immigrants in the US, also has the highest share of foreign-born residents of any state. But there are also powerful economic reasons for California to advocate for immigrants.

Donald Trump is not a strict anti-globalist. He’s just not a fan of the current variety of globalization.

The Trump administration said Wednesday it is deploying the National Guard to the US-Mexico border to help curb illegal immigration.

Donald Trump had some strong words for the Mexican government on Easter morning. In a series of tweets, he chastised Mexico for not curbing illegal immigration.

The world has been tracking China’s defunct space lab Tiangong-1 as it made its way to Earth for several years. On Monday morning, China’s manned space agency said it had mostly burned up over the South Pacific at around 8:15am Beijing time, which was confirmed by the US Strategic Command.

On Easter Sunday, Pope Francis implored the world to seek out solutions to some of its most riddling geopolitical conflicts.

Would-be-travelers to the US beware: The line for a US visa could soon be getting a lot longer.

The US ambassador to Mexico is writing a love letter to her assigned country before she leaves.

Donald Trump is nominating White House doctor Ronny Jackson to run the US Department of Veteran Affairs.

Less than a year ago, Donald Trump was calling the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement “a horrible deal.” Earlier this week, his administration announced a revamped version of KORUS, as the the pact is known. Despite a few concessions on both sides, the deal is not expected to dramatically alter commercial relations between the two countries.

Democrats and civil-rights groups are lambasting the decision by US Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 US Census.

Politicians in Washington D.C.— including the president—spend a lot of time discussing illegal immigration through the US-Mexico border.

The Trump administration is moving to prohibit bump stocks, attachments that allow a shooter to fire a semi-automatic weapon faster.

Donald Trump would get $1.6 billion in funding for a border wall through the US spending bill that is currently awaiting a final vote in US Congress.

Texas’s population is booming. Out of the 10 fastest-growing US counties in 2017, six are in the Lone Star state, according US Census data released Thursday.

Most of the teenagers in the San Juan de Lurigancho district of Peru, have been through some kind of misfortune. Around 90% of respondents to a 2017 survey in the poor Lima neighborhood said they have been either robbed, left by a parent, suffered an accident, or experienced some other kind of mishap.

Robots are taking over factory floors around the world because human workers are becoming scarcer, according to a new study published this month by the US’s National Bureau of Economic Research.

Donald Trump stopped by the US-Mexico border Tuesday to check progress on the wall he once promised to build to keep out drug dealers, criminals and “rapists.” So far, that consists of eight concrete prototypes in the outskirts of San Diego. “If you don’t have a wall system, we’re not going to have a country,” the US president said as he stood in front of them. “There’s a lot of problems in Mexico… they have the cartels.”

A spokesman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says he quit over what he called “misleading facts”spread by Trump administration officials.

So far, Donald Trump’s proposed border wall amounts to just eight slabs of concrete with no prospects of expanding. Nevertheless, they’re already proving politically useful for both Trump and his opponents.

It’s been a busy week for Jeff Sessions. The US attorney general is deploying his broad powers to remake the US’s immigration system instead of waiting for Congress to pass legislation.

Primary elections in deeply Republican Texas have become the latest testing ground for Democratic strategy in the Trump era.