Europe

Insider Q&A: Sophie Zhang, Facebook whistleblower

Sophie Zhang worked as a Facebook data scientist for nearly three years before was she fired in the fall of 2020. On her final day, she posted a 7,800-word memo to the company’s internal forum — such farewell notes, if not the length, are a common practice for departing employees.

United Nations

The Latest: N Korea again claims no coronavirus infections

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has told the World Health Organization that it has tested 25,986 people for the coronavirus through April but still has yet to find a single infection.

Europe

Pulisic, McKennie, Adams, Dest on US Nations League roster

MIAMI — Christian Pulisic is among 29 Europe-based players on the 40-man U.S. preliminary roster announced Monday for the CONCACAF Nations League semifinal against Honduras on June 3.

United Nations

The Latest: Virus infections continue steady rise in S Korea

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has reported 59 COVID-19 cases as infections steadily rise in the capital area where half the country’s 51 million people live.

Honduras

US can soon start sending people seeking asylum to Honduras

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has finalized an agreement with Honduras that would allow some people seeking asylum in the United States to be sent to the Central American country...

General News

US expels thousands to Mexico after largely halting asylum

A U.S. Border Patrol agent wouldn't let Jackeline Reyes explain why she and her 15-year-old daughter fled Honduras and needed asylum, pointing to the coronavirus. It was just days after the Trump...

General News

Virus crisis cuts off billions sent to poor around the world

MIAMI — Until a month ago, Diana Leticia Hernández sold face cream door to door in Miami. Her husband painted houses. The money fed their family and at least six relatives in Honduras....

Religion

The Latest: Guatemala reports 1st coronavirus death

The Latest on the world's coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 156,000 people and killed more than 5,800. The disease for most people causes only mild or moderate symptoms but for...

Health

The Latest: Oregon reports first death from new coronavirus

The Latest on the world's coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 150,000 people and killed more than 5,700. The disease for most people causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some,...

Honduras

US prosecutors tie Honduras president to drug trafficker

NEW YORK — U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday that Honduras' president met with a drug trafficker around 2013 and took $25,000 in exchange for protecting the trafficker from law enforcement....

Honduras

‘Deportation with a layover:’ US sends migrants to Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY — After he was involved in a fender bender with a gang member, the Honduran delivery driver was in trouble: The accident wasn't his fault, but he couldn't pay the damages, and...

Mexico

Mexican guardsmen break up migrant caravan along highway

FRONTERA HIDALGO, Mexico — Hundreds of Central American migrants were hauled onto buses by Mexican national guardsmen and immigration agents after crossing into the country early Thursday and...

General News

Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — Hundreds of Central American migrants who waded across a river into Mexico in hopes of eventually reaching the U.S. were sent back to their homeland or retreated...

General News

Mexico readies for Central American migrants at south border

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — Border security forces in southern Mexico were preparing Friday for the expected arrival of hundreds of Central Americans traveling through Guatemala and vowed to...

Honduras

Guatemala sweeps up migrant, group, returns them to border

EL CINCHADO, Guatemala — Guatemalan police accompanied by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept up the majority of a group of some 300 migrants Thursday, loaded them on buses...

Honduras

100s of migrants advance to Guatemala from Honduras

EL CINCHADO, Guatemala — Hundreds of mainly Honduran migrants started walking and hitching rides Wednesday from the city of San Pedro Sula and crossed the Guatemala border in a bid to form...

Honduras

Asylum agreements with Central American nations challenged

WASHINGTON — Trump administration agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras that allow U.S. immigration officials to send asylum seekers to the Central American nations violate the...

Couples

Denied asylum, migrants return to place they fear most: home

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — By now, the young couple thought they’d be in the United States. Somewhere, anywhere, in the United States. They thought they’d have jobs — he’d work construction,...

Tegucigalpa

16 inmates killed in latest prison outburst in Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — At least 16 prisoners died during fighting inside a juvenile detention center in Honduras on Sunday, two days after rioting at another prison killed 18 inmates,...

Honduras

Trump says Guatemala is helping stem asylum seekers in US

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump thanked Guatemala's president Tuesday for becoming a more active partner in helping stem a tide of migrants seeking to gain asylum in the United...

Honduras

Central American offered asylum in Guatemala opts for home

COLON, Honduras — The first Central American asylum seeker sent to Guatemala under that country’s “safe third country” agreement with the U.S. has opted to instead return to his home in...

General News

US held record number of migrant children in custody in 2019

COMAYAGUA, Honduras — The 3-year-old girl traveled for weeks cradled in her father's arms, as he set out to seek asylum in the United States. Now she won't even look at him.

General News

Report: Trump migrant crackdown weighed impact on 2020 race

MIAMI — As the Trump administration in its early days tried to push through hardline immigration policies, it appeared to calculate their possible impact on the 2020 presidential race while...