MEXICO CITY, July 25 (Reuters) - Mexican drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and the son of his former partner, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, were arrested on Thursday in El Paso, Texas, in a major coup for U.S. authorities that may also reshape the Mexican criminal landscape. Zambada is one of the most consequential traffickers in Mexico's history and co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel with El Chapo, who was extradited to the United States in 2017 and is serving a life sentence in a maximum...

US stock markets plunged on Wednesday, recording their worst losses since 2022, after investors sold off shares in struggling tech companies. The Nasdaq index fell by 3.6%, the S&P 500 dropped 2.3%, and the Dow Jones Industrial average slid 1.2%. “Signs of nervousness around tech stocks began to creep up in recent weeks,” reported Reuters, pointing to Wall Street’s “vulnerability to any weakness in the Big Tech trade...  

Vice President Kamala Harris vowed to “not be silent” about suffering in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war, saying she expressed her “serious concern” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday while telling him it is time to lock down a ceasefire deal. “Israel has a right to defend itself and how it does so matters. What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating,” Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, told reporters in remarks after...

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign team backed out of a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, saying it wouldn’t commit to debate details until the Democratic Party chooses its nominee. “Given the continued political chaos surrounding Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, general election debate details cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee,” the former president’s campaign spokesman, Steven Cheung, said...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Former President Donald Trump is headed to Tennessee this weekend to deliver a keynote address at a major bitcoin conference. It’s looking like he’ll be in front of a favorable crowd. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has raised more than $4 million from a mix of digital tokens, a campaign aide told CNBC. Contributors have donated bitcoin, ether, Ripple’s XRP token, the U.S. dollar pegged stablecoin USDC and various...

President Joe Biden plans to focus on Supreme Court reform in his final months in office, he announced in a televised address on Wednesday night. On Sunday, Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement as the Democratic nominee in November's election.