TOKYO -- Japan's Emperor Naruhito paid respects to atomic bombing victims in Hiroshima as the city marks the 80th anniversary ...

A lawyer who once represented drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has won a judgeship in the northern Mexican state of ...

The first supreme court chief justice elected democratically on Earth is Hugo Aguilar, a noted indigenous rights defender.

According to this narrative, López Obrador is a tyrant who oppresses free speech and seeks to concentrate power. Sheinbaum is viewed as a puppet, allowing AMLO to pull the strings behind the scenes.

The Morena party that López Obrador founded and in which he remains far more personally popular than Sheinbaum, appeared to be on track to win the two-thirds majority needed to change the ...

Her win entrenches the governing Morena party’s hold over power in Mexico, six years after Lopez Obrador, also known by his initials AMLO, ran an anti-establishment campaign against the country ...

Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide victory to become Mexico's first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador whose popularity among the ...

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, right, and Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, greet supporters at a rally in Mexico City’s main square, the Zocalo, July 1, 2019 [Fernando Llano/AP] ...

Leer en español Mexico made history on Sunday by electing its first female president. The leading candidate of the reigning party, Claudia Sheinbaum, was projected to win on election night with ...

In her final campaign rally in the northern city of Monterrey, she called out the "136,000 killed and 50,000 disappeared" in Mexico during López Obrador's six-year term.

Instead, the elections are about whether or not voters want to see a continuation of López Obrador’s vision. “It’s complicated ideologically but not politically,” Bravo Regidor said.