UNEWS, Top stories for U.S. Latinos in English

Authorities say one person was killed and several others were injured during a shooting at a Southern California high school; the El Paso Walmart where 22 people were killed and another 26 were injured over the summer reopened Thursday after extensive renovations; and the first day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump brought a potential bombshell about an apparent 'second' follow-up phone call.

A historic day in Capitol Hill, Bill Taylor and George Kent testify in the first public impeachment hearings underscoring the importance of Ukraine to American foreign policy; leaked emails from Stephen Miller show the president’s policy advisor promoted white nationalist emails before taking office; and former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she’s being pressured to consider a 2020 run.

A decisive day for thousands of Dreamers today as the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the Trump Administration can cancel DACA; Evo Morales, Bolivia’s former president flees to Mexico after deadly clashes; and public hearings of the impeachment inquiry are set to start tomorrow.

Bolivia has entered a sudden era of political uncertainty with the resignation of President Evo Morales on Sunday, House Republicans released a list of witnesses they want to hear from as part of impeachment inquiry hearings including the anonymous whistleblower, and the future of thousands of immigrants is now in the hands of the Supreme Court as the nine justices will hear oral arguments on DACA on Tuesday.

Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney is a no-show at today’s impeachment hearing ignoring a subpoena; family and friends mourn the loss of the victims of the Mexican ambush while the search for suspects continues; and a father is arrested by immigration authorities, his daughter captured the harrowing ordeal on video.

The first funerals for the victims of the horrific massacre in Northern Mexico will be held today; President Trump asked Attorney General William Barr to tell the press the phone call to Ukraine was legal according to a Washington Post report; and a Mexican immigrant who started selling tamales door to door just signed a contract to sell them at a major basketball arena.

Authorities in Mexico are still searching for answers in the brutal massacre of at least nine Americans, Democrats win key elections in Virginia and Kentucky, and House Democrats announced public impeachment hearings will start next week.

At least nine members of an American Mormon family were killed in Mexico by gunmen suspected of ties to organized crime, in Washington the impeachment inquiry continues despite officials failing to show up to scheduled testimony, and key gubernatorial races in Virginia, Mississippi and Kentucky are taking place today, a test of President Trump’s popularity going into the 2020 presidential election.

Four White House officials were scheduled to testify today in the impeachment inquiry but none of them showed up; new polling data shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden beating President Trump in key battleground states while Senator Elizabeth Warren is trailing behind the president, and Spanish-TV icon, astrologer Walter Mercado passed away over the weekend at the age of 87

The House passed a resolution formalizing procedures on the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump, hundreds of firefighters battle a new fire in Southern California as Ventura County authorities order mandatory evacuations for almost seven thousand people, and border agents in Arizona sounding the alarms as they've seen an increase in migrants locked inside trailers or trunks of cars, trying to sneak in to the country.