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By Laura Paddison, CNN

(CNN) — Mexico City is sinking at such an alarming rate that it’s visible from the space. Imagery from a powerful NASA radar system is revealing subsidence rates of more than 0.5 inches a month — making the city one of the planet’s fasting-sinking capitals.

The sprawling metropolis, also one of the world’s biggest cities, stretches out across a high-altitude lake and sits atop an ancient aquifer, which provides around 60% of drinking water for the city’s 22 million residents.

Over the years, this aquifer has been so over-pumped that it’s caused the land above it to subside. Over-extraction has also contributed to a chronic water crisis that has left the Mexico City facing a potential day zero, where taps run dry.

The city’s rapid sinking has been exacerbated by relentless urban development, with new infrastructure adding extra weight on top of the clay-rich soil.

Mexico City’s subsidence was first documented in the 1920s, and in the years since, residents have experienced the impacts, with fractured roads, tilted buildings and damage to the train system.

New imagery from the NISAR satellite, a project between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization, reveals the extent of the problem in startling detail.

NISAR was designed to map some of the planet’s most complex processes and is able to track subtle motions such as land sinking. It’s one of the most powerful radar systems ever launched into space, according to NASA.

Between October 2025 and January 2026, during Mexico City’s dry season, NISAR mapped the movement of the ground beneath the city. Its findings reveal that parts of the city are sinking at a rate of around 0.8 inches a month — that’s more than 9.5 inches every year.

Areas most affected include the Benito Juarez International Airport, the city’s primary airport.

One city landmark reveals the impacts of sinking. The 114-foot high Angel of Independence monument, built in 1910 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of Mexico’s independence, has needed 14 steps added to its base as the ground beneath it sinks.

“Mexico City is a well-known hot spot when it comes to subsidence, and images like this are just the beginning for NISAR,” said David Bekaert, a project manager at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research and a member of the NISAR science team. “We’re going to see an influx of new discoveries from all over the world.”

The satellite is also able to track other planetary processes such as glaciers sliding or crops growing, as well as natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions.

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Predicar en tierras extrañas, en un idioma ajeno y con acento inmigrante puede ser un gran desafío en estos tiempos turbulentos en la política migratoria estadounidense. Y es precisamente ese desafío el que asumirá el padre salvadoreño Evelio Menjívar Ayala, tras ser nombrado obispo único de la diócesis de Wheeling-Charleston por el papa León XIV.

Este inmigrante que llegó indocumentado a Estados Unidos en 1990 tendrá la misión de realizar su labor pastoral en West Virginia, un estado altamente republicano y en el que Donald Trump ganó abrumadoramente las elecciones en 2024.

Su designación se produce en medio los cruces entre el papa y Trump sobre la guerra en Irán. Aunque Menjívar asegura que su nombramiento no es un mensaje de León para la Casa Blanca, sino una coincidencia. A su vez, reconoce que la relación entre ambos “es difícil”.

“No creo que el papa le esté mandando un mensaje a Trump. Yo creo que el mensaje que está mandando es precisamente que los inmigrantes estamos listos para ir a donde nos manden y desarrollar trabajos no únicamente con la gente nuestra, sino que estamos listos a llevar a cabo un trabajo donde sea. No hay límites para nosotros como inmigrantes”, dijo monseñor Menjívar en entrevista con CNN desde Hyattsville, Maryland.

Menjívar recibió a CNN en el Centro Pastoral de la Archidiócesis de Washington a la que ha estado vinculado en los últimos años y donde se ubica una de las comunidades con mayor concentración y crecimiento hispano en las cercanías de Washington DC. Cree que su nombramiento busca más inclusión para romper las barreras que los prejuicios puedan imponer.

“Yo creo que el papa entiende muy bien y también entiende por su propia experiencia cómo la gente se abre a un extranjero cuando tú les abres el corazón. La gente de Perú ama al papa porque él se dio de una manera total a ellos. Y eso es lo que yo quiero hacer con la gente de West Virginia”, precisó.

El obispo Menjívar llegó a Estados Unidos a los 18 años sin documentos y escondido en un auto. Adoptó la ciudadanía estadounidense hace dos décadas. En 2023 se convirtió en el primer obispo auxiliar de la Arquidiócesis y hoy, a sus 56 años, es el primer obispo salvadoreño de Estados Unidos.

Menjívar no es indiferente a las redadas migratorias que se han desplegado en Estados Unidos bajo la administración Trump y cuenta que ha sentido mucho dolor al ver cómo varias familias se han separado.

“Muchos inmigrantes están experimentando que muchas puertas se les están cerrando y no hay manera de salir de ese limbo. Eso llena de mucho miedo, ansiedad y desesperanza, porque no sabes qué te depara el futuro”, dice.

Además, opina que nunca ha sido fácil ser inmigrante indocumentado, pero que en estos momentos la preocupación se ha incrementado en las calles, escuelas y barrios.

“La gente vive en carne propia la persecución, el arresto, la deportación. Y cuando te das cuenta de que alguien cercano de tu familia lo está experimentando, todos sufren, aunque tú tengas documentos”, añade.

En los pasillos del Centro Pastoral el padre Menjívar tiene una imagen de San Óscar Arnulfo Romero, el santo salvadoreño y mártir que luchó por la justicia social. Consultado sobre qué significa la justicia social en esta coyuntura en Estados Unidos, Menjívar responde con un largo suspiro: “Redescubrir la humanidad de todos y la dignidad de toda persona humana. Sin esa base no puedes hacer otra cosa”.

A pesar de que monseñor Menjívar adoptó la ciudadanía estadounidense hace más de 20 años, dice que el hecho de haber ingresado años atrás de forma irregular a EE.UU., no ha dejado de ser un estigma, el mismo que viven miles de inmigrantes que han ingresado en esa situación al país.

“El solo hecho de cruzar la frontera indocumentado no debería definir toda tu historia como inmigrante. Porque está la fuerza,

By Tierney Sneed, CNN

(CNN) — The return of abortion to the Supreme Court is testing President Donald Trump’s strategy of avoiding the issue as the anti-abortion advocates grow increasingly frustrated that his administration hasn’t done more to crack down on access to mifepristone, the drug approved to terminate pregnancies.

By leaving intact a Biden-era regulatory regime that made abortion pills easier to obtain, Trump’s administration has mostly kept the issue off the political front burner for both parties. But a conservative appeals court threw wrench in that approach Friday, with a ruling that would add limits to access nationwide by requiring in-person doctor’s visits to obtain the pills.

The ruling from the US 5th Circuit Cout of Appeals is a major win for anti-abortion state officials and advocates who sued the Trump administration to force it to tighten the rules for mifepristone. They argue that allowing the medication to be obtained by online appointments was undermining state laws restricting abortion.

If the 6-3 conservative Supreme Court doesn’t freeze the ruling, as mifepristone manufacturers are now asking, it will limit access to abortion nationwide as the midterms approach.

“What is shocking is that the Trump administration’s inaction has stopped pro-life laws from taking effect, and that they forced several Republican attorneys general to take their battle to the federal courts,” said Kelsey Pritchard, the communications director for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which supports anti-abortion candidates.

The group on Monday reiterated its calls that US Food and Drug Administration head Marty Makary be fired, which the White House has repeatedly rebuffed.

“It’s just really hard for us to understand how the Trump administration has been so negligent as to leave this policy in place,” Pritchard added.

In lower courts, the Trump administration has tried to thread the needle by pushing back on the lawsuit, brought by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, for procedural reasons while not defending the safety of the drug outright.

“It’s clear that they do not want to have a ruling taking access to mifepristone away from women across the country before the midterms,” said Sam Bagenstos, who was general counsel for US Department of Health and Human Services during the Biden administration and who defended the FDA rules in court then.

“However,” Bagenstos added, “they are doing everything they can to preserve their ability to take access to mifepristone away from women across the country as soon as they’re out of the woods.”

Even the administration’s silence could be a political problem for Trump as Democrats are already seizing on the case, with the Democratic National Committee accusing Trump in a statement Monday of making “it even harder to get lifesaving reproductive healthcare by banning medication that has been safely used for decades.”

Asked by CNN whether Trump supports the 5th Circuit ruling, the White House did not answer the question directly. Instead, a spokesperson issued a statement pointing to the “Gold Standard Science-based review of mifepristone” that the US Food and Drug Administration is conducting “to address widespread safety concerns about its use.”

The Justice Department has similarly pointed to that review – which is expected to last at least several months – to argue the lawsuit challenging the regulations should be paused.

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