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Mexico's Most Feared Cartel Boss Killed,

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Americans in Mexico warned of danger as violence breaks out after cartel head’s death – NBC 7 Sa n Diego Nationwide Violence Threatens U.S. Border States, Business, and Americans Abroad February 22, 2026 BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) The Mexican Army's killing of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes — "El Mencho" — founder and supreme leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) on February 22, 2026, has triggered a wave of retaliatory cartel violence spanning at least five Mexican states, prompting U.S. Embassy shelter-in-place orders, airline flight cancellations, disruption to cross-border commerce, and serious near-term danger for tourists, expatriate Americans, and U.S. border communities from California to Texas. While the operation represents Mexico's most significant counternarcotics victory in years, security analysts warn that decapitating the CJNG leadership is as likely to ignite fractious succession violence and territorial warfare as it is to produc...
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The Gauntlet: Why Building a Home in Southern California Means Fighting Everyone and Everything

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Hurdles ahead for 111 townhomes proposed for Carlsbad's Bressi Ranch Politicians promise more housing. Regulators, lawyers, neighbors, and a thicket of overlapping laws make sure that promise is nearly impossible to keep. An investigative analysis of Southern California housing development | February 2026 When Toll Brothers approached the Carlsbad Planning Commission in early 2025 with plans for 111 luxury townhomes on a vacant seven-acre parcel in the Bressi Ranch community, the company likely knew it was embarking on a journey measured in years, not months. The site, sandwiched between the Viasat campus and existing single-family homes, is zoned for industrial use. Changing that designation—even to build the desperately needed housing that state and local officials have promised for a decade—will take 12 to 24 months of city processing time before a single shovel breaks ground. That timeline is not unusual. It is, in fact, optimistic. Across Southern California, the c...
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