WASHINGTON – The annual March for Life is attracting a new crowd. In recent years, the event has drawn – and reached – groups that include feminists, human-rights advocates and atheists, not just the religiously devout.
The march has historically attracted religious leaders, Catholic students and activists, and has focused largely on the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively legalized abortion nationwide in 1973. Last year's event drew an estimated 800,000 people to Washington.
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — Nearly 200 Cuban migrants traveled by air and across land through Central America and into southern Mexico on Wednesday, resuming their long-delayed journey toward the United States after several months stranded in Costa Rica amid a diplomatic tiff with Nicaragua.
One by one the 180 Cubans descended from chartered buses and were processed by Mexican authorities, who issued transit visas granting them 20 days to leave the country.
