El Salvador

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On Wednesday, lawmakers in El Salvador passed a law that made bitcoin legal tender, making it the first country in the world to do so.

With bitcoin getting bid up again after a monthlong sell-off, two traders debate whether now is the time to buy into the cryptocurrency.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele plans to introduce legislation that will make it the world’s first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.

There’s never a dull moment in the crypto space, and this past week was particularly buzzy.

Climate-related events increasingly intensify drivers of migration, including violence, food insecurity and poverty.

Immigrants with Temporary Protected Status are pinning their hopes on an immigration overhaul bill making its way through Congress

Outrage is growing in Mexico and El Salvador as Mexican authorities say an autopsy of a Salvadoran woman who died in police custody confirmed that police broke her neck.

Surfers in El Salvador are planning to hold a “paddle out” Tuesday to remember Katherine Díaz Hernández, one of the country’s top surfers who was killed last week by a lightning bolt while surfing

The Biden administration is ending agreements with three Central American nations that were part of an effort to restrict asylum under President Donald Trump

The devastation caused by Hurricane Iota is becoming clear as communications are restored after the second Category 4 hurricane in two weeks to blast Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast.

One of the MS-13 gang members allegedly responsible for the gruesome murder of a 15-year-old Long Island boy was extradited from El Salvador to U.S. four years after the killing, prosecutors said Friday. Eduardo Portillo, 23, formerly of Central Islip and Brentwood, fled the country and was charged with the teen’s murder after a federal grand jury indictment was...

A divided U.S. appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration can end humanitarian protections that have allowed hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan to remain in the United States.

Salvadorans who fled their home country to escape gang-fueled violence are in many cases being deported back to face the very same violence they fled

At least 138 people deported to El Salvador from the United States in recent years were subsequently killed, Human Rights Watch says in a report that comes as the Trump administration makes it harder for Central Americans to seek refuge here.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Friday it is extending temporary protected status coverage for migrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan through Jan. 4, 2021. The status, which has been granted because of disasters or conflicts in those countries, had been set to expire in January 2020, or in Nepal’s case, March. Trump administration has...

A Marine combat veteran whose supporters were seeking a pardon from the governor of California was suddenly deported to El Salvador this week, according to advocates and immigration authorities, NBC News reported. Jose Segovia Benitez, 38, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1999-2004 and was deployed to Iraq, was deported to El Salvador on Wednesday, according to Immigration...

Supporters of a Marine combat veteran who served in Iraq are calling on the California governor to help stop his imminent deportation to El Salvador, a country he left at 3 years old, NBC News reports. Jose Segovia Benitez, 38, served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1999-2004 and was deployed to Iraq, receiving multiple awards and decorations during his...

A New York City man who knocked on a Pace University student’s dorm room, then pushed his way in and sexually terrorized her as she desperately tried to talk her way out of it has been sentenced to state prison, authorities said.