El Salvador has extended the state of emergency in the country as voted by its Congress in the request of President Nayib Bukele to extend an anti-gang emergency decree for another 30 days.
Mexico has filed a $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold U.S. gun manufacturers accountable for a deadly flood of weapons across the border. Named in the lawsuit were Smith & Wesson and Strum, Ruger & Co., among others.
The U.S. government has increased the number of admittances of Ukrainian refugees, with the U.S.-Mexico border expecting more people fleeing amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
U.S. President Joe Biden has announced that he will be releasing one million oil barrels per day from the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the next six months in an attempt to put a stop to high gas prices.