Service members supporting federal agents along the U.S.-Mexico border will receive the medal instead of the Armed Forces Service Medal.

Troops serving along the southern border since Jan. 20 to support federal border agents can now receive the Mexican Border Defense Medal.

The heads, all belonged to males, the Tlaxcala State Attorney General's Office announced as police hunt their killer.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday denied a DEA announcement of a joint operation against cartel "gatekeepers" on the border. She said they haven't reached any agreement yet, contradicting the DEA's Monday description of a "bold bilateral initiative" targeting smuggling corridor operatives.

The Drug Enforcement Administration on Monday announced the launch of Gatekeeper, a binational collaboration to identify Mexican cartel leaders in smuggling corridors along the Southwest border.

A task force of 500 U.S. Marines and sailors is working to construct new fortifications at Arizona’s southern border with Mexico, including adding barbed and concertina wire. The new task force, called Task Force Forge, comprises personnel assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion 15, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force.

The U.S. State Department is calling on Americans to stay away from the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas and to reconsider travel to Baja California, Sonora, and Chihuahua. The latest travel advisory posted on August 12 cites violent crime in those states,