SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum recently announced it was time to implement a nationwide 40-hour work week for employees instead of the 48 hours most people in Mexico…
Border Report – President Sheinbaum plans to invite new pope to Mexico
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum says she is planning to invite the new Pope, Leo XIV, to visit Mexico in the near future. On Friday, during her daily…
Tech Crunch – Scaling startups in the European market
From cybersecurity and aerospace to generative 3D, startup leaders are scaling ambitious companies from European soil and taking on global markets. In this conversation at the StrictlyVC event in Athens, we talked…
Border Report – 316 immigration cases filed first week of May in west, central Texas
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas filed 316 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases during the first week of May…
Border Report – CBP seizes nearly 300 pounds of pork products in El Paso
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists, working at the Paso Del Norte international crossing in El Paso, seized nearly 300 pounds of prohibited pork products this week,…
Border Report – Newark Mayor Ras Baraka taken into custody by Homeland Security at NJ ICE facility
NEWARK, N.J. (WPIX) – The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was taken into custody by Homeland Security at an ICE facility on Friday afternoon, according to Alina Habba, the interim U.S. Attorney…
Border Report – Trump tariffs sow chaos: ‘Our phones are ringing off the hook’
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – It’s a tragic anecdote that illustrates the chaos President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again trade tariffs have brought to the U.S.-Mexico border in the past few months….
Tech Crunch – Investing in overlooked European ecosystems
John Tsioris sold InstaShop to Delivery Hero for $360 million. Nate Clarke took Tyme from startup to global digital bank. In this candid conversation at the StrictlyVC event in Athens, the two…
Tech Crunch – The US is reviewing Benchmark’s investment into Chinese AI startup Manus
Manus AI is one of the hottest AI agent startups around, recently raising $75 million at a half-billion dollar valuation in a round led by Benchmark. But two unnamed sources told Semafor…
KTSM News – Eastlake High School teacher awarded $1k Whataburger grant
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — An Eastlake High School teacher was surprised with a 2025 WhataTeacher grant from Whataburger on Friday, May 9, according to Socorro Independent School District. Thomas Medina, a…