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A Texas congressional candidate who favors marijuana legalization beat eight-term incumbent El Paso Rep. Silvestre Reyes Tuesday in the Democratic primary for the congressional district closest to Mexico's Ciudad Juarez. Bob Moore, editor of the El Paso Times, called the race for Beto O'Rourke at 12:45 a.m. Eastern time. The challenger for the Democratic nomination in Texas's 16th Congressional District won 50.4 percent of the vote, versus Reyes's 44.4 percent. Because O'Rourke won more than 50 percent of the votes, his margin of victory, if it stands in official results, allows him to avoid a runoff election against the eight-term incumbent Reyes. The race received national attention because of O'Rourke's position in support of marijuana legalization. In his second term as an El Paso city representative, O'Rourke pushed for a resolution calling for a re-examination of the drug war, which has killed tens of thousands in neighboring Mexico over the past decade. He also co-authored a book on the same subject.The drug war is 'a failure,' O'Rourke told HuffPost in April, adding that marijuana is 'the cornerstone of the cartel economy' and thus fuels the violence in El Paso's sister city.Reyes, a Vietnam veteran and former border patrol officer, responded with a TV ad charging that O'Rourke was encouraging drug use among children.This is the second high-profile Democratic primary this month where the candidates squared off over marijuana prohibition. On May 15, Ellen Rosenblum won the Oregon attorney general's office on a pledge to make enforcing marijuana laws a low priority.In the final weeks of the Texas race, O'Rourke had somewhat downplayed his views on legalization. He said that it was a low priority for El Paso voters and not something he would pursue in Congress.'He's backed off a lot on the talking points about the need to legalize marijuana or the impact it has on thi

Go ahead. Slug, drug, kidnap and leave John Shaft buck-naked in a sweltering hellhole. It's still no deal. If you want to recruit this tough-minded Manhattan detective for an overseas assignment, you'd better use a language he understands. One that offers a fat up-front fee. And a drop-dead gorgeous accomplice. Richard Roundtree returns as the indomitable Shaft, who poses as a slave, unmasks the leaders of an Africa-to-Europe slavery cartel and, for good measure, mixes his business with amorous pleasure involving a beautiful princess (Vonetta McGee). The cool-fire impact of Roundtree's performances endures: the actor won the 1993 MTV Movie Award for Lifetime Achievement for his work in the three Shaft thrillers.

American public schools are failing, despite leading the world in spending per student. THE CARTEL examines how the richest society on earth lost the ability to teach its children.

Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks 'What is truth?' in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance but unlike Pilate, Ford waits for an answer. The film opens in 1910, with distinguished and influential U.S. senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) returning to the dusty little frontier town where they met and married twenty-five years earlier. They have come back to attend the funeral of impoverished 'nobody' Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). When a reporter asks why, Stoddard relates a film-long flashback. He recalls how, as a greenhorn lawyer, he had run afoul of notorious gunman Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), who worked for a powerful cartel which had the territory in its clutches. Time and again, 'pilgrim' Stoddard had his hide saved by the much-feared but essentially decent Doniphon. It wasn't that Doniphon was particularly fond of Stoddard; it was simply that Hallie was in love with Stoddard, and Doniphon was in love with Hallie and would do anything to assure her happiness, even if it meant giving her up to a greenhorn. When Liberty Valance challenged Stoddard to a showdown, everyone in town was certain that the greenhorn didn't stand a chance. Still, when the smoke cleared, Stoddard was still standing, and Liberty Valance lay dead. On the strength of his reputation as the man who shot Valance, Stoddard was railroaded into a political career, in the hope that he'd rid the territory of corruption. Stoddard balked at the notion of winning an election simply because he killed a man-until Doniphon, in strictest confidence, told Stoddard the truth: It was Doniphon, not Stoddard, who shot down Valance. Stoddard was about to reveal this to the world, but Doniphon told him not to. It was far more important in Doniphon's eyes that a decent, honest man like Stoddard become a major political figure; Stoddard represented the 'new' civilized west, while Doniphon knew that he and the West h

Mexican authorities found dozens of decapitated bodies along a highway. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.

Experts explain to CNN's Anderson Cooper why recent murders don't resemble the work of the Zeta cartel.

The victims, 43 men and six women, had their heads, hands and feet cut off and are believed to have been killed by members of Los Zetas, an extremely violent drug cartel. NBC s Mark Potter reports.

May 14: The victims, 43 men and six women, had their heads, hands and feet cut off and are believed to have been killed by members of Los Zetas, an extremely violent drug cartel. NBC s Mark Potter reports.

Five dead after military officers and supposed gang members trade fire in Northern Mexico, while authories parade suspected cartel hitman in front of media. Jessica Gray reports.

La secretaria de la marina de M xico dice haber capturado al jefe de sicarios del cartel de los Zetas.

Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben (Johnson), a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon (Kitsch), a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry--raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia (Lively). Life is idyllic in their Southern California town... until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. When the merciless head of the BC, Elena (Hayek), and her brutal enforcer, Lado (Del Toro), underestimate the unbreakable bond among these three friends, Ben and Chon--with the reluctant, slippery assistance of a dirty DEA agent (Travolta)--wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel. And so begins a series of increasingly vicious ploys and maneuvers in a high-stakes, savage battle of wills.

For her birthday, Dave Nash buys his wife, Emma, a beautiful foreclosed home. Gated, serene, and surrounded by friendly neighbors, it seems too good to be true... and it is. Dave and Emma soon discover the walls are lined with bricks of heroin. Before they can leave, cartel thugs trap them inside. Imprisoned in their own home, Dave and Emma withstand relentless attacks from thugs seeking to plunder the 'stash house' of its riches. As the deaths of innocent bystanders mount, and they come ever closer to losing one another, Dave decides to take matters into his own hands...