The leader of a militia that rounded up migrants at gunpoint along the U.S.-Mexico border has pleaded guilty to a federal weapons charge.

A former Canadian Armed Forces reservist plotted with other members of a white supremacist group to carry out "essentially a paramilitary strike" at a Virginia gun rights rally, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday.

Puerto Rico has activated more than 650 of its National Guard members with 115 more preparing to travel from New York to help construct and support tent shelters across the southern region of the island where thousands of residents continue to sleep outdoors for fear of another major earthquake.

The palace announced Saturday that the prince and his wife will give up public funding and try to become financially independent.

Each day an estimated 5,000 people flee. The most popular way out is through the Colombian border city of Cucuta. Then comes one of the most difficult parts of the trip: a 125-mile passage that climbs more than 9,000 feet to a long and frigid plateau – El Paramo de Berlin – before descending into the balmy, green city of Bucaramanga.

In remarks to members of the small town of La Mora, which was shattered by the Nov. 4 killings of three women and six children from the extended Langford, LeBaron and Miller families, Mexico's president said the first goal is to bring those responsible to justice.

Nearly 200 Puerto Rico National Guard members are assisting in the recovery efforts following a series of earthquakes this week that have shaken the island and left thousands homeless.

After months of delay, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has agreed to let Puerto Rico gain access to nearly $8.3 billion in disaster mitigation funding.

Puerto Rico was hit by a series of new earthquakes on Saturday including one which measured 5.9 on the Richter scale, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Most agents retire after 20 to 25 years. But Chancy Arnold always planned to work until the Border Patrol made him leave. That will be in July, when he turns 57. "Since Day 1," Arnold said, "I was going to work until the end."

On Dec. 3, 1979, gunmen intercepted a bus carrying sailors bound for Sabana Seca Naval Base and opened fire in a terrorist attack. Two sailors were killed and 10 wounded in the incident.

Revelers around the globe said farewell to a decade that will be remembered for the rise of social media, the Arab Spring, the #MeToo movement and, of course, President Donald Trump.

Rudy Giuliani participated in a September 2018 phone call with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that was part of a shadow effort, backed in part by private interests, to ease him from power.

Before Alaska crabber Brock Rainey headed out to start a new season, he checked in with his longtime friend Mike Daily. This winter was no different. "Tossing lines for the Bering Sea today...Love you brother," Rainey texted in the hours before the boat he crewed on – the Scandies Rose – left Kodiak on Monday.

Emma Sanchez waited patiently in line at the foot of a bridge leading across the Rio Grande and into Texas, one of tens of thousands of people stuck on Mexico's northern border seeking political asylum in the United States.

U.S. investigators came to believe after Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's ouster that many of his puzzling actions could be attributed to his occult rituals. But in the end, witchcraft proved no match for the 82nd Airborne and other troops that descended on Panama City in the early hours of Dec. 20, 1989.

Federal agents have seized $250 million from convicted ex-Venezuelan national treasurer Alejandro Andrade, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for his central role in a $1 billion money laundering scheme that allowed him to hide a fortune in overseas banks as well as luxury real estate in South Florida.

Michael Enright's strange, sinuous meanderings have taken him on two harrowing tours of battle in Syria as a volunteer with the formerly U.S.-backed Kurdish militia. They also have thrust him into the byzantine pathways and switchbacks of the U.S. immigration system and, by his account, the wilds of international spy networks.

Federal prosecutors indicted Jacques Yves Sebastien Duroseau, a native of Haiti, in North Carolina last week on gun-smuggling charges. Duroseau told investigators he “picked every gun” to bring into the country so he could teach Haitian soldiers how to shoot.

As rioting broke out across Chile in October, President Sebastian Pinera watched his political agenda go up in smoke.

Julian LeBaron, a family spokesman and longtime anti-violence activist said the family wasn't satisfied with the arrests of the triggermen, but wanted the detention of "the people who were responsible for giving the order" to carry out the attack.

A court in the South American country of Suriname convicted President Desi Bouterse on Friday in the 1982 killings of 15 political opponents and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.

The Cuban government recently reintroduced the U.S. dollar to the island's economy, hoping to capture more of the currency it desperately needs. It has opened shops that sell appliances and automotive parts only in dollars.