The US Department of the Treasury on Thursday announced in a press release that it has added a Mexican and an Ecuadorian national to its list of specially designated persons for engaging in illegal drug trafficking into the United States for the benefit of Mexican cartels

Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado, who said she won a lawsuit against the former governor of Mexican state Baja California, Jaime Bonilla Valdez, has been found murdered close to her house in Tijuana, local news outlet Sol de Tijuana reported

It will likely take a year or two for the flora and fauna of the southern California coast to recover from an October oil pipeline spill, Ronald S Tjeerdema, professor with the University of California at Davis, told Sputnik