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The IRS is embroiled in controversy after a local Ohio office singled out Tea Party groups for additional scrutiny.

Opinion: IRS office targeted Tea Party, but minorities have been targets for much longer

By Stephen A. Nuño

The perception that the IRS targeted conservative groups is certainly cause for concern, but liberal folks like Jon Stewart and Chris Matthews should stop … Read More

Telemundo Latin America news roundup – January 25, 2013

By NBCLatino Staff

The latest Latin America news in under 59 seconds. Mexican police captured eleven people they believe are connected to a drug cartel that’s killed sixteen … Read More

Political activist Frank Mejia, better known as "Commander Maya," reads a manifest in support of teachers protesting to demand months of unpaid salaries outside Congress in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Teachers have been demonstrating almost every day because they haven’t been paid in six months, while doctors complain about the shortage of essential medicines, gauze, needles and latex gloves. (AP Photo/Alberto Arce)

Honduras government goes over fiscal cliff, neglects services, can’t pay bills

By Adrian Carrasquillo

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Street surveillance cameras in one of the world's most dangerous cities were turned off last week because Honduras' government … Read More

Hundreds of men in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero have taken up arms to defend their villages against drug gangs, a vigilante movement born of frustration at extortion, killings and kidnappings in a region wracked by violence. (Photo by Dario Lopez-Mills/AP)

In Mexico, self-defense squads battle violence

By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

The young man at the roadside checkpoint wept softly behind the red bandanna that masked his face. At his side was a relic revolver, and his feet were shod … Read More

Telemundo Latin America news roundup – January 18, 2013

By Nadine Natour

The latest Latin America news in under 59 seconds. Mothers of murdered young women in Mexico are marching over 200 miles to demand that the government find … Read More

Telemundo Latin America news roundup – January 4, 2012

By NBCLatino Staff

The latest Latin America news in under 59 seconds. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is fighting a severe lung infection according to government officials. … Read More

Telemundo Latin America news roundup – December 18, 2012

By NBCLatino Staff

The latest Latin American news in under 59 seconds. Mexico president Enrique Peña Nieto said he will create a new 10,000 strong police force to combat … Read More

In this Sept. 4, 2012, photo, the sun casts a shadow on the U.S.-Mexico border fence that passes through the Nature Conservancy's southernmost preserve in Brownsville, Texas. Since 2008, hundreds of landowners on the border have sought fair prices for property that was condemned to make way for the fence, but many of them received initial offers that were far below market value. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Landowners on border say they were shortchanged

By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- When the federal government began seizing private land along the U.S.-Mexico border to build a towering fence, Teofilo Flores was … Read More

Republican vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Opinion: GOP waning commitment to diversity

By Stephen A. Nuño

As the young folks in this country are increasingly non-white, so wanes the GOP's commitment to investing in education, infrastructure, and health care. All of … Read More

Students from left: David Buenrostro, Adrian James, and Jahel Ramos protest outside the Obama campaign offices in Culver City, Calif., Thursday.

Obama administration gives work permits to young undocumented immigrants

By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Pres

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and … Read More