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Watch live: President Trump speaks at Iowa State Fairgrounds for America 250 kickoff
7:23 pm CTShare this update President Donald Trump takes the stage early Virginia Barreda President Donald Trump took the stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds about 10 minutes earlier than expected. He walked out to country singer Lee Greenwood...

After an ICE raid, a teen took over his mother’s Pasadena tamale stand. The customers keep coming.
Chris Garcia, 14, is not afraid to work. But he is afraid for his mother Carmen, who was at her tamales stand on the corner of Parke Street and Garfield Avenue in Pasadena on June 21 when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers...

Cost of Trump’s tariffs hits home as goods surge to record highs
President Donald Trump’s trade war is affecting Americans from the grocery store to electric bills, with the cost of bananas, ground beef and electricity surging to all-time highs, according to the latest data from the Consumer Price Index. Major...

U.S. has imported nearly 10x the amount of eggs in 2025 compared to 2024
A Thursday press release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about the department’s response to the highly pathogenic avian influenza, shows the nation imported more than 26 million shell eggs, counted by the dozen, since January, which is...

Flesh-Eating Worms Are Back—and They’re Eating People Alive
In San Pedro Sula, Honduras, doctors recently found themselves gawking up the nose of a 57-year-old woman named Reina Avila. Avila had writhing screwworms burrowing through her nasal cavity like living, squirming little drills tunneling through...

After an ICE raid, a teen took over his mother’s Pasadena tamale stand. The customers keep coming.
Chris Garcia, 14, is not afraid to work. But he is afraid for his mother Carmen, who was at her tamales stand on the corner of Parke Street and Garfield Avenue in Pasadena on June 21 when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers...

Protecting the irreplaceable: Mexico and Central America join forces to…
Petén, Guatemala, June 24, 2025 (IUCN/MARN) — The Ministries of Environment of Belice, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama, along with the Central American Commission for Environment and Development (CCAD), the Central American...

Guac Is Extra, But Should It Be? Texas A&M Anthropologist Shows The Resilience Of Ancient Avocados
The El Gigante Rockshelter is among a handful of archaeological sites in the Americas that contain well-preserved botanical remains spanning the last 11,000 years. Credit: Shelly Leachman, UC Santa Barbara Today’s avocado industry, a...

Regal Springs CEO departs; Tidal hires new customer experience specialist
To keep up to date with the latest personnel changes across the seafood industry, SeafoodSource is compiling a regular round-up of hiring announcements and other personnel-related shifts worldwide. If you have an announcement, please send it to...

As ICE appears to ramp up arrests, CT officials are in the dark
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 10: Federal agents detain an individual after his hearing in immigration court at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on June 10, 2025 in New York City. Federal agents are arresting immigrants during mandatory check-ins,...

In Trump’s new budget bill, Latinos pay a hefty price
Periodically, the Latinx Files will feature guest writers. Filling in this week is De Los reporter Andrea Flores. On Thursday, the GOP-led House approved the Senate’s version of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” the Trump administration’s domestic policy...

From Alphonso to Imam Pasand, why are Indian mangoes losing their sweet spot?
But the Bathua mango is on the brink of extinction, and the pride of being an orchard owner is fading away, replaced by a sense of loss and foreboding. Orchard owner Pramod Sharma, 54, who now runs a petty construction business, speaks of the...

The ‘mistake’ that put a man in ICE detention
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Reju partners with Utexa and Antex in strategic expansion move
Image Courtesy: Reju Reju, the innovator in textile-to-textile regeneration, has formed strategic partnership deals with multifilament yarn manufacturers Utexa and Antex to prove and upscale the commercial application of its REJU Polyester™...

A once-in-a-generation chance to bag the original Birkin
Only once in a generation comes a sale like this. Twenty-five years after the most famous product from the venerable House of Hermes was last sold, the original model of its Birkin bag is back on the auction block. A quiet buzz has taken hold of...

Junior Chamber International Jamaica shines at 2025 Conference of the Americas
RECENTLY, A 12-member delegation of Junior Chamber International (JCI) Jamaica, led by 2025 national president, Reneil Clarke, represented the island at the 2025 JCI Conference of the Americas, held in Roatán, Honduras, where hundreds of emerging...

The ‘mistake’ behind a Helena immigration arrest
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Protecting the irreplaceable: Mexico and Central America join forces to conserve critical forest…
Petén, Guatemala, June 24, 2025 (IUCN/MARN) — The Ministries of Environment of Belice, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama, along with the Central American Commission for Environment and Development (CCAD), the Central American...

Crowley moves into US Northeast – Central America trade
The new service will offer a five-day transit between the Port of Philadelphia’s Gloucester Marine Terminal and ports in Guatemala and Honduras. Crowley will utilise its newest LNG-fuelled Avance class container vessels on the route. The company...

President Trump's Cuts To USAID Could Result In A "Staggering" 14 Million Avoidable Deaths By 2030
According to the influential medical journal, The Lancet, President Trump’s decision to cut the majority of US funding for foreign humanitarian aid could result in over 14 million additional deaths by 2030. Many of those at risk of excess...