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Taiwanese soldiers salute during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, on Oct. 10, 2021.

U.S. approves $2 billion in arms sales to Taiwan

Taiwanese soldiers salute during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, on Oct. 10, 2021.

October 27, 2024, 2:09pm Nation & World

The United States has approved $2 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, including the first-time delivery to the self-ruled island of an advanced surface-to-air missile defense system, in a move that has drawn China’s criticism. Read story

A supporter of Frente Amplio presidential candidate Yamandu Orsi attends a rally five days ahead of elections in Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024.

2 moderates face off in ‘boring’ Uruguay

A supporter of Frente Amplio presidential candidate Yamandu Orsi attends a rally five days ahead of elections in Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024.

October 27, 2024, 2:08pm Nation & World

Voters in the small South American nation of Uruguay headed to the polls to choose a new president Sunday in a race between two moderates that defies regional trends of bitter division and democratic erosion. Read story

Vance calls Russia an American adversary but won’t label Moscow as an enemy

October 27, 2024, 1:30pm Nation & World

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says Russia is a U.S. adversary but suggests it's counterproductive to approach Moscow as an enemy. Read story

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, center, sits in conversation with Black men at Philly Cuts barbershop during a campaign stop, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in Philadelphia.

Harris calls on U.S. ‘to turn the page on hatred and division’ as she crisscrosses Philadelphia

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, center, sits in conversation with Black men at Philly Cuts barbershop during a campaign stop, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in Philadelphia.

October 27, 2024, 1:23pm Nation & World

Kamala Harris told a Philadelphia church congregation that the United States is “determined to turn the page on hatred and division" as she began crisscrossing the Democratic stronghold Sunday. Read story

Biden marks anniversary of deadly 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack

October 27, 2024, 1:17pm Latest News

President Joe Biden on Sunday marked the sixth anniversary of a gunman’s deadly attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue and called out what he called an “appalling surge of antisemitism” amid the war in Gaza. Read story

A bust of Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue at the South Carolina Statehouse, is displayed Reconstruction Era National Historic Park, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024, in Beaufort, S.C.

South Carolina to build first monument to an African American. Meet Robert Smalls

A bust of Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue at the South Carolina Statehouse, is displayed Reconstruction Era National Historic Park, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024, in Beaufort, S.C.

October 27, 2024, 1:10pm Nation & World

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War. Read story

Israeli police and rescue services inspect the site where a truck driver rammed into a bus stop near the headquarters of Israel&#039;s Mossad spy agency, wounding dozens of people, according to Israel&#039;s Magen David Adom rescue service in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024.

Israeli strikes on northern Gaza kill at least 33, while a truck ramming near Tel Aviv kills 1

Israeli police and rescue services inspect the site where a truck driver rammed into a bus stop near the headquarters of Israel&#039;s Mossad spy agency, wounding dozens of people, according to Israel&#039;s Magen David Adom rescue service in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024.

October 27, 2024, 9:47am Latest News

Israeli strikes on northern Gaza have killed at least 33 people, mostly women and children, Palestinian officials said Sunday, as Israel's offensive in the hard-hit and isolated area entered a third week and the U.N. secretary-general called the plight of Palestinians there “unbearable.” Israel said it targeted militants. Read story

They came to America looking for better lives — and better schools. The results were mixed.

October 27, 2024, 9:40am Nation & World

While Aurora Public Schools is striving to accommodate more than 3,000 new students mostly from Venezuela and Colombia, the city government has taken the opposite approach. City Council has tried to dissuade Venezuelan immigrants from moving to Aurora by vowing not to spend any money helping newcomers. Read story

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Gustavo Arellano: The ‘Latino vote’ is a myth. My road trip through the Southwest tells a more complex story

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October 27, 2024, 6:02am Nation & World

ON THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, San Diego — I’ve done the drive from Orange County to the United States-Mexico border so many times that it’s as easy to describe as my backyard. Read story

At the border west of Nogales, Ariz., rancher Jim Chilton points to the dirt roads that Mexican traffickers use to transport drugs right to the U.S. boundary.

Heat, thirst and rosaries: A drive along Arizona’s border with Mexico

At the border west of Nogales, Ariz., rancher Jim Chilton points to the dirt roads that Mexican traffickers use to transport drugs right to the U.S. boundary.

October 27, 2024, 6:02am Latest News

The men and the boys scanned the Mexican desert from the shade of a tree. They walked down a hill toward the border wall to pick up water, socks and rosaries. The heat hit hard and the men and the boys, who had been on foot for months, blended in… Read story