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6 November 2019; AFP: President Donald Trump offered Tuesday to help Mexico hunt the killers of nine Mormon women and children shot dead in a lawless border area, and said the United States stood ready to back its southern neighbor in a "war" on drug cartels.

Gunmen ambushed the members of the LeBaron family -- a large clan of Mormons who emigrated to Mexico in the late 19th century -- on Monday on a rural road between the states of Sonora and Chihuahua, which border the United States.

MEXICO CITY, Nov 6 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — The 5th auction of properties seized from organized crime will take place on Sunday, Nov 9, at Los Pinos Cultural Center, the Mexican government announced.

The Mexican military barged into this home in Culiacán, Sinaloa, the early morning of Feb 17, 2004, in hopes of arresting El Chapo. He managed to escape through a tunnel hidden underneath a bathtub before he was finally captured a week later. The house has been put up for auction by the Mexican government. It is worth $127,287

6 Nov 2019; MEMO: US presidential adviser Jared Kushner has urged Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader of the Blue and White party, Benny Gantz, to form a unity government in order to seize the opportunity to implement the so-called deal of the century. Donald Trump’s son-in-law met the Israeli Prime Minister and Gantz separately in Israel last week. He revealed that both insist that they want to “move forward” and end the ongoing political deadlock in their country.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday held a phone conversation with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson over issues of trade and burden-sharing among NATO allies, the White House said in a statement.

"The two leaders again reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening the Special Relationship through a robust bilateral free trade agreement once the United Kingdom leaves the European Union," said the statement.

Trump in the phone call also stressed the need for NATO allies to robustly fund their defenses, according to the statement.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on phone Tuesday with his Mexican counterpart, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, about the recent deadly attack in Mexico that killed nine U.S. citizens.

The two leaders discussed the recent violence in Mexico and efforts to combat the growing violent behavior of criminal groups in the region, the White House said in a statement.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- House Democrats on Tuesday released the transcripts of closed-door testimony by two more witnesses in an impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump.

The testimony was from Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, and Kurt Volker, the Trump administration's former special envoy to Ukraine, both believed to be key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry over the White House's alleged efforts to withhold a military aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his son.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A white man accused of throwing acid on a Hispanic man’s face once held four hunters at gunpoint on his rural Wisconsin property, an encounter that one of the hunters said Tuesday he still vividly remembers.

The chance encounter with the hunters in 2006 sheds light into the temperament of 61-year-old Clifton A. Blackwell, now accused in a gruesome attack in Milwaukee.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the House impeachment inquiry (all times local):

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A key ally of President Donald Trump is dismissing the latest developments in the impeachment investigation, calling it a “bunch of B.S.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters Tuesday he doesn’t plan to read the transcripts Democrats are releasing from the impeachment investigation, despite demanding that they be made public. He says he’s “written the whole process off.”

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The nine women and children killed by drug cartel gunmen in northern Mexico lived in a remote farming community where residents call themselves Mormon — descendants of former members of The Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints who fled the U.S. to escape the church’s 19th century polygamy ban.

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — An attorney representing a group of black customers who say they were asked to change tables at a Chicago-area Buffalo Wild Wings because of their skin color urged the restaurant chain Tuesday to make wholesale changes to avoid a discrimination lawsuit.

Some children who attended the birthday party Oct. 26 in Naperville broke into tears during a news conference. Two of the adult attendees of the party described what happened, and attorney Cannon Lambert laid out a list of hiring and training demands for the company.