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Obama campaign returning funds tied to Mexican fugitive (Reuters)
Reuters - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is returning more than $200,000 in donations from the family of a fugitive casino magnate linked to violence and corruption in Mexico who has been seeking a pardon, Obama's campaign confirmed on Tuesday.
Judge allocates time for start of oil spill trial (AP)
AP - A federal judge has set aside nearly seven hours for opening statements in a trial over the deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
BP preparing "vigorously" for oil spill lawsuits (Reuters)
Reuters - BP said it was preparing "vigorously" for lawsuits related to its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which are due to start later this month, as it unveiled a rise in fourth-quarter earnings boosted by higher oil prices and one-off gains.
Obama team returning money tied to casino owner (AP)
AP - President Barack Obama's campaign is returning about $200,000 in contributions collected by family members of a Mexican casino owner who fled the U.S. after facing drug and fraud charges.
Candidacy tests Mexico's culture of machismo (AP)
AP - Mexico's conservative ruling party is gambling that this country known for machismo is ready for a female president and have chosen a devout Roman Catholic and popular former congresswoman who says she sympathizes with the causes of the poor.
Suspected kidnappers of Mexican diplomat arrested (AP)
AP - Police have arrested two men and a woman suspected of participating in last week's kidnapping of Mexico's ambassador to Venezuela and his wife.
2 accused in contract killings on trial in Memphis (AP)
AP - Jury selection has begun in the trial of two men charged with serving as contract killers in a violent drug ring accused of moving cocaine from Mexico into Tennessee and other Southern states.
Mexico conservatives back woman presidential candidate (Reuters)
Reuters - Voters from Mexico's ruling conservative party selected their first woman presidential candidate on Sunday, choosing a former education minister to battle the opposition's nominee, who has a big lead in the polls.
Mexican aid lags for starving Tarahumara Indians (AP)
AP - It's been months since Maria Luisa Gonzalez and her husband have been able to harvest anything from their drought-parched land or catch fish in a lake that's become little more than a muddy puddle.
5 norteno musicians, 4 others killed in Mexico (AP)
AP - Mexican authorities say a masked man opened fire against a band playing popular norteno music in a Chihuahua city dance hall, killing five musicians, four customers and injuring 10 others.
Mexico former ruling party fights drug link report (AP)
AP - Mexico's former ruling party has filed a complaint accusing federal prosecutors of leaking information tying three of the party's former governors to a drug money-laundering investigation.
Police bust Arizona-Mexico drug ring, arrest 12 (Reuters)
Reuters - Police in southern Arizona have broken up a drug trafficking network that smuggled more than 15 tons of marijuana and cocaine from Mexico and arrested 12 suspects, authorities said on Friday.
Violence in Mexico curtailing faith-based missions (AP)
AP - John and Wanda Casias knew the risks of being missionaries in one of Mexico's most violent, cartel-dominated regions, their children say, but they refused to curtail their work and instead put their ministry ahead of their safety.
Mexico activist in Juarez women killings wounded (AP)
AP - An activist representing relatives of women slain or missing in the border city of Ciudad Juarez has been attacked for the second time in two months.
Search on for missing cruise passenger near Mexico (AP)
AP - A search is under way in waters near Mexico for a British cruise ship passenger who apparently went overboard.
Lawsuit seeks info, damages in 7-year oil spill (AP)
AP - An environmental watchdog group filed a lawsuit Thursday against the company it blames for an oil spill 11 miles off the coast of Louisiana, claiming oil has been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for more than seven years with few details about what's being done to stop it.
Republicans, attorney general fight over gun sting (Reuters)
Reuters - Republicans in the House of Representatives said on Thursday senior Justice Department officials should have known about the controversial tactics that led to a bungled operation to track guns to Mexico because some details were practically at their fingertips.
Family of agent slain in botched sting seeks damages (Reuters)
Reuters - The family of slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry has filed a $25 million wrongful-death claim against the U.S. government, saying he was killed because federal investigators allowed guns to fall into the hands of violent criminals.
2 US missionaries slain at ransacked Mexico home (AP)
AP - John Casias found his calling when he joined a Texas church group that came to preach the Gospel in the little Mexican town of El Cercado in the early 1980s.
Seized cash triggers political furor in Mexico (Reuters)
Reuters - The discovery in Mexico of almost $2 million cash in the luggage of a state government official has triggered a round of mud-slinging in the run-up to the presidential election in July.

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