Five of the boat's seven crew members lost their lives when it overturned in heavy seas and freezing spray near Sutwick Island the night of Dec. 31, 2019.

The cross-border project would have transported more than 800,000 barrels a day from the western province of Alberta to Nebraska, and from there to U.S. refineries. Alberta's premiere, called on Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to consider trade sanctions against the United States.

The Coast Guard said that 114 Cuban migrants were interdicted between October 2019 and September 2020 by the agency and other U.S. law enforcement forces. Since October 2020, more than 90 Cuban migrants have been interdicted.

A federal judge late Tuesday indefinitely banned President Joe Biden's administration from enforcing a 100-day moratorium on most deportations.

Canadian regulators on Friday authorized AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine for all adults. It is the third COVID-19 vaccine given the green light by Canada, following those from Pfizer and Moderna.

Egypt said Wednesday it has endorsed a Sudanese proposal to internationalize arbitration in a years-long dispute with Ethiopia over a massive dam Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile.

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández says that antinarcotics cooperation with the United States could "collapse" if U.S. authorities believe "false testimony" accusing him of cooperating with traffickers.

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will remain jailed after she was arrested and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plotting his escape from a Mexican prison in 2015.

For the first time in 15 years, China's two biggest policy banks made no new loans to the Latin America in 2020, capping a multi-year slump driven by Latin America's worsening economic slide.

The unfamiliar couple who claimed to work at a local motel turned out to be wealthy Vancouver residents who had chartered a private plane to the isolated outpost so that they could get coronavirus shots intended to protect vulnerable Indigenous elders.

Mexican Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell, known as the nation’s coronavirus czar, has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a tweet.

The escalating scandal that broke last week has already forced the resignations of Peru’s foreign and health ministers, among nearly 500 people who received so-called courtesy doses.

Haitians awoke Monday to empty streets, a tightened police presence and a deeper political crisis: Now there are two men who claim to be the nation's president.

More than a year ago, the United States began sending asylum seekers to Guatemala to apply for refuge there. None has received asylum in Guatemala - and fewer than 40 have even bothered to try, a Senate report said.

Essay

The pill plan, adopted by officials all over Brazil, has sent millions scrambling to pharmacies and worked its way into federal government guidelines. Officials call it "early treatment." People in the streets have another name: the Covid Kit.

Days after President Joe Biden announced a plan to help migrant families, his Justice Department finds itself fighting to get senior Trump administration officials off the hook for separating parents from their children at the border.

The best count is that there are about 33 of the long, slender filter feeders -- and definitely fewer than 100 of them.

The pandemic has left the outsized population of Canadian troops deployed to Colorado Springs and their families isolated in a foreign land, with crossing the border meaning spending two weeks in quarantine.

Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi declared a state of emergency Sunday over the island's gender violence crisis, a measure local groups have demanded from the government for years.

Analysis

The incoming Biden administration has indicated it will undo many of the widely criticized programs created under President Donald Trump, including the "Remain in Mexico" program, which forces asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico as their cases are processed in the U.S.

Canada's health-care system, long a source of national pride for being more equitable than the U.S., has struggled so hard to deliver COVID vaccines that some of its citizens are heading to Florida to get their jab.

The officials appeared to be struggling to control the damage to the reputation of the justice system after prosecutors took just five days to completely absolve retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos of U.S. allegations, backed by years of investigation, that he aided drug traffickers in return for bribes.

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro tightened his grip on the nation's institutions Tuesday as a legislature packed with his loyalists took their seats in what was widely considered the country's last democratic institution.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó had the recognition of the United States and the support of millions in the streets. But with Nicolás Maduro still occupying the presidential palace and commanding Venezuela's security forces, Guaidó's so-called interim government needed cash.

Cross-border towing companies, which are considered essential businesses, can take a recreational vehicle across the border and meet the RVers (who fly across the border) on the other side.

Nearly half a million Americans flew to Mexico in October. That figure was down by a third compared with last October, but it was a minor drop-off compared to a more than 80% decline in visits from Canada and Europe.

The Maduro regime knew precisely where the first boat would arrive and soldiers were waiting for the would-be liberators. An article published by The Associated Press hours before the launch had warned the world of an impending coup attempt.

Analysis

Though President-elect Joe Biden's Latin America policy will likely be "profoundly different" than President Donald Trump's strategy in the region, Biden might not be able to turn the page on the Trump era so easily.

In Latin America, a region hard hit by pandemic, poverty and flawed health care systems, many experts fear that large-scale coronavirus immunization campaigns could prove a logistical nightmare, even as vaccinations are set to begin.

Two years into President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's term, Mexico's armed forces have assumed a broader role in the country's affairs than at any point since the end of military-led government in the 1940s.

Under an arrangement set eight decades ago by the then-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party, Mexico's military was left to its own devices so long as it didn't interfere in governance. Under Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, that wall has begun to crumble.

Hurricane Iota battered Nicaragua with screeching winds and pounding surf Tuesday, chasing tens of thousands of people from their homes along the same stretch of the Caribbean coast that was devastated by an equally powerful hurricane just two weeks ago.

Who are we to judge? The Vatican says it is investigating how Pope Francis' official Instagram account came to "like" an Instagram post of a curvaceous Brazilian model given to wearing thong bikinis and striking suggestive poses.

Western Union announced on Friday it will end its operations in Cuba as of Nov. 27, following the Cuban government's refusal to transfer remittance operations to a company not controlled by the military, as required by the Trump Administration.

Advocates have long argued that legalization would put a dent in the black market, allow for safe, regulated consumption, create jobs and cut down on crime.