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Mexico's military says its forces killed one of the country's most powerful drug lords during an operation to capture him.

The death sparked chaos across the country as armed men set banks, businesses, and vehicles on fire.

Today, even as the situation has calmed, schools are closed and people are staying indoors.

NPR's Ader Peralto explains the significance of the cartel leader known as El Mancho.

Within the past 10 years, he turned the Halisco New Generation Cartel into one of the biggest organized crime groups in the world.

They took over a whole lot of territory in Mexico and began operating outside the country in Europe and the

U.S. The U.S. says El Mincho's cartel trafficked billions of dollars worth of cocaine and fentanyl

into the U.S. El Mincho has been indicted several times in American courts, and the U.S.

had put a $15 million bounty on his head.

NPR's Ader Peralta reporting, the number of judges in the

nation's immigration court shrank by about a quarter in the last year due to firings and

resignations, even when accounting for new hires, according to an NPR analysis. The drain has led to

depleted staff morale, mounting case backlogs, and a floundering due process system.

Twelve immigration courts have lost over half of their judges. Many courts are down to skeleton

crews to handle thousands of cases. Two courts have no judges at all. A panel of federal judges

has denied an attempt to block Utah's new congressional map from being used in the midterms.

As Martha Harris of member station KUERR reports, this was the latest attempt by Republicans to get rid of the map.

Utah's congressional map used to have four safe Republican seats, but the state got a new court-ordered map last year.

It has one district that favors Democrats.

Republicans want the new map blocked and the old map reinstated for the 2026 midterms.

A panel of three federal judges denied that request. On Friday, the Utah Supreme Court denied a

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