In February 2025, the Trump administration and El Salvador's president announced an agreement allowing the US to send both detained migrants and imprisoned citizens to the mega-prison in El Salvador.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is leading a cleanup effort at a warehouse on 24th Street, where 3.92 million pounds of abandoned electronic waste was found.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, who came to power in 2019 and is now serving a second term which critics have called ...

Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox CBS pulled a 60 Minutes report on a Salvadoran mega-prison housing US-deported migrants, citing the need for ...

Segment that Bari Weiss had removed provides in-depth look at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo prison A 60 Minutes episode investigating a brutal prison in El Salvador, which CBS News’s ...

A "60 Minutes" episode investigating the controversial CECOT prison in El Salvador, which CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly delayed from airing on Sunday, appeared online on Monday after ...

Earlier this year, the United States deported 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador and paid its government to imprison them, despite clear evidence of human-rights abuses in the country’s prison system and ...

The United States of America (United States, or U.S.) and the Republic of El Salvador (El Salvador) have agreed to a Framework for an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (Agreement) that further strengthens ...

In 2026 Nayib Bukele will consolidate his dictatorship. Still only in his early 40s, El Salvador’s president has secured indefinite re-election by rewriting the constitution, having captured the ...

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele chose not to attend the United Nations General Assembly this year, calling the event pointless and a waste of time. He shared his decision on social media, posting ...

El Salvador lawmakers’ July 31 approval of a constitutional amendment ending presidential term limits was the latest action in a years-long process to dismantle the rule of law. The international ...