Mexico's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has been famously quiet about her Jewish ancestry. Yet she will live and govern Latin America's second-largest economy from the Palacio Nacional, three blocks from Mexico's first synagogue and a neighborhood where Jewish immigrants first found refuge here.

Mexico’s first female president in more than 200 years of independence promises to protect an expanded social safety net and fight for the poor like her predecessor.

Mexico’s first female president promised that there will be no return to the “irresponsible” drug war between the government and the cartels.

A tropical disturbance is expected to move into the Gulf of Mexico and could potentially develop into a tropical depression over the weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center. The system, which is currently producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms over the northwestern Caribbean Sea and the southwestern Gulf of Mexico,