Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has designated four organizations or organization categories as foreign terrorist or transnational criminal groups under state authority.

Together, officials said the chemicals seized could have produced nearly 190,000 kilograms of meth, with an estimated street value of more than $569 million.

U.S. prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty in their cases against Mexican drug lords Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Rafael Caro Quintero.

The U.S. imposed sanctions on the two fugitive sons of incarcerated Mexican Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and announced a reward offer of up to $10 million each for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the sons.

Mexico’s government has confirmed reports that 17 family members of the son of a former cartel leader crossed into the United States.

U.S. officials have unveiled an indictment charging alleged Mexican drug cartel leaders with narco-terrorism.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned six people and seven companies it said were involved in money laundering for factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.

The United States government is formally designating eight Latin American organized crime groups that also operate in the U_S_ to be “foreign terrorist organizations.”.

A longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel who is facing drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court appeared for the first time before the judge presiding over the case.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Mexican ice cream shop chain and a local pharmacy used as investments by drug traffickers.

U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar has rejected accusations by Mexico’s president that the U.S. shares some responsibility for cartel violence in Sinaloa state.

At least 30 people have been killed in the past two weeks in Mexico’s northern state of Sinaloa as two factions of the powerful Sinaloa cartel continue to clash.

A federal judge says that a powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who was arrested over the summer in the U.S. can be transferred from Texas to New York to face charges there.

Court documents show that Mexican drug cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has agreed to be transferred from El Paso, Texas, to New York, to face charges there.

The strange saga of how two Mexican drug lords were detained after landing in a plane in the United States in July just got stranger.

The murders of about a dozen people in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa appear to be linked to cartel infighting, something authorities had feared would follow the July 25 detention of two top cartel leaders.

A Mexican drug lord who was arrested in the U.S. last month could be headed to trial in New York City.

The United States managed to arrest Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord, but Mexican prosecutors — and the president — now say they are considering bringing treason charges against those who handed him over.

Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has said that he was ambushed and kidnapped when he thought he was going to meet the governor of the northern state of Sinaloa.

The U.S. ambassador to Mexico has confirmed that drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was brought to the United States against his will when he arrived in Texas in July on a plane along with fellow drug lord Joaquín Guzmán López.

A powerful Mexican drug cartel leader has made his second appearance in federal court in Texas after being taken into U.S. custody last week.

Mexico's president has taken the unusual step of issuing a public appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other, following last week's detention of top Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López.

A new era is coming for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the capture by U.S. authorities of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the last of the grand old Mexican drug traffickers.

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has eluded the reach of U.S. enforcement for decades as the top leader and co-founder of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel.

The U.S. Justice Department says Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, have been arrested by authorities in Texas.

Mexico’s two main drug cartels have long taken their deadly rivalry with them as they expand into distant markets from Asia to Australia to Africa.

The U.S. government has thanked Mexico for arresting a hyper violent, alleged Sinaloa cartel security chief this week.

The Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on 13 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel and four Mexico-based firms accused of trafficking fentanyl into the United States.

Mexico has extradited Ovidio Guzmán López, a son of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, to the United States to face drug trafficking charges.

The Justice Department has for the first time charged China-based companies and employees with supplying chemicals needed to make fentanyl, a primary driver of an overdose crisis gripping the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday that the companies openly advertised the chemicals on social media platforms and shipped them surreptitiously to buyers, even adding molecules to evade testing.

Prosecutors revealed in a recent indictment that while Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán serves a life sentence, his sons have steered the family business into fentanyl, establishing a network of labs churning out massive quantities of the cheap, deadly drug that they smuggle into the U.S. The indictment unsealed April 14 in Manhattan details a generational shift.

The Justice Department has charged 28 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation.

The man who was once Mexico’s top security official and in charge of fighting the drug cartels is going on trial on charges of helping the Sinaloa Cartel traffic drugs and protect them from capture.

Mexico’s capture of a son of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán this week likely is an isolated nod to a drug war strategy that Mexico’s current administration has abandoned rather than a sign that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s thinking has changed.

Federal officials say an increasing number of fake prescription pills containing potentially deadly fentanyl are helping drive overdose death rates to record levels in the U.S. And officials warn that some of the pills are being manufactured in rainbow colors designed to look like candy.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is worried that yet another shadowy release of a drug lord is about to make Mexico a target of international ridicule.

She is the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman and is accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. (Alexandria Adult Detention Center via AP)WASHINGTON – The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested in the United States and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. She is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico. Her arrest is the latest twist in the bloody, multinational saga involving Guzman, the longtime head of the Sinaloa drug cartel. After Guzman was rearrested following his escape, Coronel lobbied the Mexican government to improve her husband’s prison conditions.