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Lottery winner shows up in Scream mask to claim million-dollar prize
It took the Super Lotto winner, who was identified as A. Campbell, 54 days to muster up the courage to collect his prize, worth more than $1.55 million.
- by Lindsey Bever
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Election
Salvadoran front-runner set to overturn decades of two-party rule
All four candidates promised to end corruption, stamp out gang violence and create more jobs, with crushing crime at the top of the agenda.
Immigration
Thousands of immigrants arrive in Mexico seeking new humanitarian visas
The Mexican government is offering the one-year visas – which include the right to work in Mexico, travel freely in the country, and leave Mexico and return.
- by Cecilia Sanchez & Liliana Nieto del Rio
Mexico
Dozens killed as pipeline explodes into flames in Mexico
The tragedy comes amid Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's crackdown on rampant fuel theft.
Organised crime
A $100m bribe to the former president? Mexicans shrug it off
The news that one of the world's biggest drug kingpins had paid a $100 million bribe to the former president of Mexico did not lead any of the country's major daily newspapers on Wednesday
- by Elisabeth Malkin, Kirk Semple & Alan Feuer
Immigration
First part of new US-bound migrant caravan crosses from Honduras into Guatemala
About 200 Hondurans presented documents in the morning to pass through the Agua Caliente border crossing separating the two Central American nations.
- by Jorge Cabrera
USA
Pizza salves shutdown pain as Canadian air traffic controllers send slices to American counterparts
The air traffic controllers opted for a universal symbol of goodwill amid the US government shutdown. They sent pizzas.
- by Amy B Wang
Mexico
Former Mexican president received $100m bribe from 'El Chapo', court hears
The self-described "one-time right-hand man" of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman said that he previously told US authorities of the bribe.
- by Brendan Pierson & David Graham
Trump's White House
Fast food on the menu as Trump congratulates Clemson football team
US President Donald Trump sprang for a 300-burger tribute to the Clemson Tigers for winning the national championship.