Sick of voting for rats? Elect a cat: Four-legged Morris runs for mayor in Mexico (Photo: Stringer / Mexico / Reuters) This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes. Morris, a black-and-white kitten with orange eyes, is running for mayor of Xalapa in eastern Mexico with the campaign slogan “Tired of Voting for Rats? Vote for a Cat.” And he is attracting tens of thousands of politician-weary, two-legged supporters on social media. Continue reading
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Sick of voting for rats? Elect a cat: Four-legged Morris runs for mayor in Mexico

(Photo: Stringer / Mexico / Reuters)

This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes.

Morris, a black-and-white kitten with orange eyes, is running for mayor of Xalapa in eastern Mexico with the campaign slogan “Tired of Voting for Rats? Vote for a Cat.” And he is attracting tens of thousands of politician-weary, two-legged supporters on social media.

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Will Twinkies be reborn through new Mexican ownership? Next week may be Black Friday but sweets lovers across the nation hung their heads in sorrow on a dark Friday yesterday as Hostess announced they would cease making their line of products, which include the iconic Twinkies brand, because of the Bakers Union Strike. Read the complete story from NBC Latino. 
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Will Twinkies be reborn through new Mexican ownership?

Next week may be Black Friday but sweets lovers across the nation hung their heads in sorrow on a dark Friday yesterday as Hostess announced they would cease making their line of products, which include the iconic Twinkies brand, because of the Bakers Union Strike.

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Deadly crossing: Death toll rises among those desperate for the American Dream (Photo: NBC News) For the past few years, the family-owned Elizondo Mortuary and Cremation Service in Mission, Texas, has been taking in the remains of undocumented immigrants found dead in nearby counties after crossing the border from Mexico. This year, however, they had to build an extra freezer. It’s become difficult to keep up with the rising tide of dead coming to them from across the Rio Grande Valley. Read the complete story.
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Deadly crossing: Death toll rises among those desperate for the American Dream

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For the past few years, the family-owned Elizondo Mortuary and Cremation Service in Mission, Texas, has been taking in the remains of undocumented immigrants found dead in nearby counties after crossing the border from Mexico. This year, however, they had to build an extra freezer. It’s become difficult to keep up with the rising tide of dead coming to them from across the Rio Grande Valley.

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Investigation finds no evidence AG Eric Holder knew of ‘Fast and Furious’ gun-running sting A long-awaited report on the U.S. government’s controversial gun-trafficking operation known as “Fast and Furious” released Wednesday found no evidence that Attorney General Eric Holder knew of the botched effort to trace the flow of guns to Mexico’s drug cartels prior to its public unraveling in January 2011.  Read the complete story.
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Investigation finds no evidence AG Eric Holder knew of ‘Fast and Furious’ gun-running sting

A long-awaited report on the U.S. government’s controversial gun-trafficking operation known as “Fast and Furious” released Wednesday found no evidence that Attorney General Eric Holder knew of the botched effort to trace the flow of guns to Mexico’s drug cartels prior to its public unraveling in January 2011. 

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Astronaut’s photo shows wildfire smoke at night An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped a photo showing ghostly wildfire smoke wafting in the darkness near the neighboring cities of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. The smoke likely comes from the Whitewater-Baldy fire, the largest in New Mexico’s history, which has chewed through 465 square miles (1,205 square kilometers) of forests near Glenwood, N.M., since it was ignited by lightning on May 16, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The fire is about 225 miles (362 kilometers) to the northeast of El Paso, and is now 87 percent contained. Read the complete story.
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Astronaut’s photo shows wildfire smoke at night

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped a photo showing ghostly wildfire smoke wafting in the darkness near the neighboring cities of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas.

The smoke likely comes from the Whitewater-Baldy fire, the largest in New Mexico’s history, which has chewed through 465 square miles (1,205 square kilometers) of forests near Glenwood, N.M., since it was ignited by lightning on May 16, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The fire is about 225 miles (362 kilometers) to the northeast of El Paso, and is now 87 percent contained.

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More Gulf workers leave as tropical storm feared More offshore oil workers in the Gulf of Mexico were being evacuated Saturday after a weather system was given a 90 percent chance of becoming a tropical storm this weekend. “A tropical storm may be forming,” the National Hurricane Center said in its afternoon advisory, adding that “tropical-storm force winds are already occurring in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.” Read the complete story.
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More Gulf workers leave as tropical storm feared

More offshore oil workers in the Gulf of Mexico were being evacuated Saturday after a weather system was given a 90 percent chance of becoming a tropical storm this weekend.

“A tropical storm may be forming,” the National Hurricane Center said in its afternoon advisory, adding that “tropical-storm force winds are already occurring in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.”

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