The Latest Breaking News from Mexico City

Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman to be elected president of the Latin American nation on Monday.

Claudia Sheinbaum, the former city mayor elected Mexico's first woman president, is an environmental scientist and dedicated leftist known for keeping a cool head in times of crisis.

The former head of Mexico City's government beat opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez.

Police were on the scene at a White Castle restaurant in the 2300 block of West Roosevelt Road for a shooting that happened about 1:20 p.m. Tuesday. Lydell Harton, 48, and another man were killed. No one is in custody.

The 61-year-old former Mexico City mayor, who was representing the ruling party, won around 58 percent of votes, according to an estimate by the Enkoll polling firm.

Claudia Sheinbaum is the presidential front-runner, with 20,000 other posts up for grabs in the country’s biggest election ever

Ceci Flores has accused officials of ignoring the plight of Mexico’s more than 100,000 missing people

A Puente poll represents a rare survey of the Mexican public by U.S. media.

Tens of millions of Mexicans will go to the polls on June 2 to vote in the country’s largest election in history. The election will allow voters to decide more than 20,700 positions at the local and national levels.

Claudia Sheinbaum has capitalized on the president’s popularity throughout her campaign, but will the climate scientist be able to pursue her own agenda once elected?

Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. The atmosphere is literally heating up, amid a wave of unusual heat, drought, pollution and political…