The Defense Department issued a legal waiver authorizing current and former personnel to share unidentified anomalous phenomena–related classified information, but it doesn’t extend to other agencies.

The US government has been sharing more information about UFOs. That's fueling excitement over the possibility of the president announcing that humans are not alone.

The impact will kick up a plume of debris so high, it’ll likely be visible through some telescopes. Astronomers will be watching.

Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made contact with Earth.

The so-called “creepy”—referenced in music by everyone from Bad Bunny to Pablo Chill-E—has been found from Chile to Costa Rica. But what is inside the potentially toxic weed that seems to be everywhere in Latin America?

It’s probably impossible to find a Mexican that doesn’t recognize the shrill sound of the “chinga tu madre” whistle. How it’s used can cause people to either laugh or fight.

Chile's "Ruta Ufológica," a hotspot for sightings and emerging tourist destination, is a microcosm of the global UFO craze.

The bizarre story of the Dr. Simi mascot trend from a discount Mexican pharmacy includes everyone from Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, to Coldplay and Dua Lipa.

Known as “The King of the South” and “The Man of a Thousand Faces”, Marset continues to evade arrest around the world, while mocking police with video messages.

Paul Nguyen, from California, went on a date in the city of Medellin via the popular dating app, but was found dead hours later.

There are only a few rehab clinics focused on helping minors with drug addiction, and they are overwhelmed by demand.

Legend has it that the cities of Madero and Tampico are protected from hurricanes by an alien base called Amupac.

Farmers and activists are fighting to improve the weed’s quality and reputation.

The Rosa Maria House in Asunción, Paraguay—where abortion is illegal—takes in girls as young as 10 with unplanned pregnancies and teaches them how to be mothers.

A sierra town in Mexico has become a unique tourist destination for people who want to get high on shrooms. But not all the locals are happy.

Farmers are cultivating and selling cannabis as Mexico’s government continues to bungle weed legalization.

A perfect storm of deportations and pop culture created a violent U.S.-inspired gang culture, and Belize is reeling from a spate of recent killings.

The discovery of dozens of grisly “extermination houses” and mass graves has set the city on edge.

The use of fentanyl in Mexico is growing—and leading to a spike in overdoses and homicides.

The trend of children and teens being recruited to kill by the cartels is widespread in Mexico, and the government is struggling to prevent or stop it.

George Henríquez is making history as he fights for the rights of marginalized Black and Indigenous populations of the Atlantic Coast.

As Mexico's cannabis legalization law continues to stall, these smugglers have found a local market for primo California weed south of the border.

Although the NBA now has numerous female assistant coaches, Alejandra Arellano recently made history when she became the first in Mexico’s highest league.

The region has long been a critical migration route for species like ocelots and black bears, as well as a focus of binational efforts to restore endangered jaguars, Mexican wolves, and bison.

The Astros de Jalisco are competing in Mexico’s top professional basketball league during the pandemic. But several teams have decided it’s not worth playing.

The indigenous shaman believed that coronavirus is no match for the power of peyote.

It took some creative advocacy from mimes and masked wrestlers to encourage Mexico lawmakers to vote on a groundbreaking national traffic safety law.

For decades they were relegated as sidekicks in the iconic Mexican wrestling matches, but little people now train and feature as headliners.

After the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in 2010, BP paid out more than $60 billion in the US. More than eight years later, Mexico quietly settled with the oil giant for $25 million.

Thousands of people have disappeared in a dirty war in Veracruz — many of them at the hands of police death squads accused of torture.

Almost 10 years into Mexico’s war with drug cartels, a sub-genre of hip-hop has made its way through the most embattled border towns — and into the rest of the country, the US, and even the military.

As boxing icons from the historic Mexico City barrio of Tepito fight to keep the sport's tradition alive, drugs and street life are proving to be more dangerous than any opponent in the ring.

Uruguay was the first country to fully legalize weed so we went to explore the scene.

For the magic-mushroom towns of Mexico, the discovery of the fungus's indigenous wisdom by outsiders has been a blessing and a curse, as a new…

Remember the boys from an indigenous Mexican tribe who made headlines with their barefoot basketball success? The academy that brought them together continues giving kids opportunities in one of Mexico's most impoverished areas.

It’s a crime saga like 'Goodfellas,' but with bizarre, violent characters out of the 'Trailer Park Boys.'

The LFA, Mexico's second-year professional American football league, doesn't pay its players enough for them to quit their day jobs, but there's no shortage of passion for the game.

Perhaps nothing better represents Chihuahua than the local spirit, sotol—the dangerously delicious cousin of tequila and mezcal.

In a picturesque region where poverty is prevalent and traveling by foot is a necessity, running all day comes naturally to Mexico's indigenous Raramuri people. Can their legendary endurance generate Olympic success?

As Mexico lavishly prepares for Pope Francis' first visit to the world's second most Catholic nation, the country's rapidly growing religious counterculture doesn't really care that he's coming.

Ciudad Juárez ranked as the world's most violent city from 2008-2010. Many children are suffering from PTSD today after witnessing the murders of family members, friends, and strangers, during the horror.

The hitman talked about the Zetas’ relationship with local politicians in the state of Veracruz, the cartel’s wars with rivals, and the toll his “work” has taken on his personal life.

Taken against their will, locked up in squalid conditions, subjected to emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, and beaten if they speak out — addicts tell their stories.

A decade after Mexico declared war on the cartels, Acapulco leads the country in homicides, and the old Hollywood playground lives in fear.

Culiacan, the stronghold of the Sinaloa cartel, headed by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is an open museum dedicated to the imagery of its gangsters.

When the government eliminated the bosses of one of the bloodiest cartels, those who were left began fighting — and civilians are paying a high price in blood.

Opium farmers in the state of Guerrero are starting to complain loudly about toxic fumigation, cartel violence, and poverty. The new activism comes amid tentative political moves towards legalization.

As the National Basketball League of Canada begins its new season on Dec. 26, we take a look back at the Canadian equivalent of the Malice at the Palace.

After decades of feuding, are Nova Scotia's two most infamous crime families finally finished killing?

But who is imposing on whom as cultures collide in Central America?

A Canadian CEO said his mining company has a "good relationship" with drug lords in Sinaloa, while at least six people in recent weeks have been killed in mining-related incidents in Guerrero.

In San Pedro Sula, Honduras, one of the deadliest cities on earth, artists are using murals to take back streets emptied by gang violence.

Gang members are making a violent living scanning picturesque Belizean beaches for parcels of cocaine that have been “wet dropped” by traffickers.