NYT Americas

1. Tornado Rips Through Southern Brazil, Killing at Least 5 People

   Pounding rain and winds of over 150 miles per hour left a trail of devastation in the state of Paraná in Brazil.

2. Canada Culls Hundreds of Ostriches as a Court and a Kennedy Fail to Save Them

   The birds, exposed to the avian flu, were killed after Canada’s Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal and a rescue effort by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fell short.

3. Prince Harry Apologizes to Canadians for Wearing an L.A. Dodgers Cap

   Harry, who referred to the episode as “Hat Gate,” was seen wearing the cap at a World Series game in Los Angeles between the Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays.

4. Trump’s Tariffs Scar Canadian City Where Cars Have Been Made for Decades

   An automaker’s decision to shift Canadian jobs to the United States has left workers in Brampton, Ontario, feeling betrayed and angry.

5. How Radio Traffic Let Us Track U.S. Drones in the Caribbean

   The U.S. military’s buildup near Venezuela has been rapidly growing and changing. Riley Mellen, from Visual Investigations, describes what’s visible, and audible, about the deployment.

6. U.S. Sends Attack Aircraft to El Salvador Amid Regional Troop Buildup

   A New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and air traffic control communications found that U.S. military planes began operating out of the Central American country in mid-October.

7. Sexual Assault of Mexico’s President Exposes Challenges of Her Equality Push

   President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped on the street this week, in an episode that set off a national conversation about what has and has not changed since Mexico elected its first female leader.

8. Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles

   One province with an outsize number of cases has seen a collision of politics and public health policy.

9. Democrats Raise Concerns After Trump Officials Give Boat Strikes Briefing

   The classified meeting did not relieve mounting unease among lawmakers over President Trump’s expanding campaign of lethal strikes against drug cartels.

10. Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street

    A video of a man touching Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, shocked many Mexicans but did not surprise them. “It’s so common,” one woman said.

11. This Is What a Vindicated Iguana Looks Like

    Reptiles on a Mexican island were considered an invasive species, but DNA evidence proves they beat humans to the island by hundreds of thousands of years.

12. What to Know About Canada’s New Budget

    The government of Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a program of big spending to spur Canada’s economy and reduce its dependence on the United States.

13. Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela

    President Trump has yet to make a decision, but his advisers are pressing a range of objectives — from attacking drug cartels to seizing oil fields — to try to justify ousting Nicolás Maduro.

14. Bold Assassinations Are ‘Reality Check’ in Mexico’s Cartel Fight

    The murder of Mexico’s most vocal anti-crime mayor shows that, despite President Claudia Sheinbaum’s crackdown on drug cartels, the battle is just beginning.

15. Amazon Oil Drilling Undermines Brazil’s Climate Credibility Before COP30

    Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it’s a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story.

16. After Hurricane Melissa, a Seaside Town in Jamaica Picks Up the Pieces

    The devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa in Black River, Jamaica, reflects the broader destruction and rebuilding facing many Jamaican communities.

17. The Jamaican Families Torn Apart by Hurricane Melissa

    Days after a powerful hurricane made landfall in Jamaica, thousands of residents are now homeless and trying to make sense of how they narrowly survived. The New York Times traveled to the storm’s center in Black River, and found a community destroyed — without food or clean water — where families are desperate and still traumatized after being cut off from the outside world.

18. In Mexico, Killer Whales Take Down Great White Sharks

    A pod of orcas in the Gulf of California has repeatedly hunted juvenile white sharks to feast on their livers.

19. For Day of the Dead, One Mexican Town Digs Up Its Dead

    Pomuch, Mexico, is one of the last places where residents clean their relatives’ bones. Now they are grappling with a new challenge: tourists.

20. Cleaning Bones for Day of the Dead

    Practitioners of an annual ritual to clean deceased relatives’ bones are grappling with a new challenge: tourists. Jack Nicas, our Mexico City bureau chief, visits Pomuch, a town in Eastern Mexico that celebrates Día de Muertos unlike any other place.