Mexico’s Senate has approved a measure that would legalize the sale and use of marijuana. To become law, Mexico’s lower house still needs to debate and pass the legislation.

A mask mandate is in effect in neighboring Sonora, Mexico, after the state Congress passed the measure earlier this month.

With coronavirus cases on the rise in both countries, the United States and Mexico have extended travel restrictions at the border once again. This time, through late December.

Just weeks after Mexico’s former Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos was arrested in the U.S. on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering, the Justice Department has dropped the charges and agreed to return him to Mexico.

The statement came in response to a question about several states that have taken aggressive action to slow virus spread, including fines and jail time for not wearing masks.

A top health official pushed back on the media's focus on the milestone, saying that it provides a limited view on the state of the pandemic.

A nonprofit dedicated to fighting corruption in Mexico has used investigations to uncover many anomalies in the current and previous administrations. But after a recent report, the Mexican president decided to launch an investigation against the organization.

The push comes the same week the state went to orange from yellow on the federal coronavirus semaforo — or traffic light — system.

While the crisis of migrant children detained on the border remains in the United States, changes in some immigration laws in Mexico are bringing new hopes for human rights supporters, as underaged migrants will not be held in custody any more. Mexico’s immigration law is now prohibiting the holding of migrant children in detention centers.