A gunman has killed five people at a club hosting an electronic music festival in the Mexican resort of Playa del Carmen, in Quintana Roo state.

Among those killed are two Canadians, an Italian and a Colombian citizen, Quintana Roo Attorney-General Miguel Angel Pech said.
The fifth victim was a woman who died in the stampede which followed the shooting, he said.The shooting happened at the Blue Parrot club hosting the BPM festival.
‘Lone shooter’ BPM festival officials had earlier released a statement on Facebook saying that “a lone shooter” outside the Blue Parrot nightclub had shot dead four people.

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BROWNSVILLE, Texas – President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to build a U.S.-Mexico wall has touched off a fierce debate in the U.S. border towns that would be most affected – with local Democrats vowing to fight Trump tooth and nail if he proceeds.

“Mexico is an ally, not an enemy,” Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Texas, told FoxNews.com. “It is our second-largest trading partner, and building a wall between two countries with such important ties is a senseless and wasteful exercise.”

Vela is a colorful Trump critic. He made headlines after calling the president-elect’s illegal immigrant policies “hateful, dehumanizing, and frankly shameful.” In a public letter, he also advised Trump to “take your border wall and shove it up your ass.”

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Eight years after the red-white-and-blue “HOPE” poster of Barack Obama, that promise of change that united millions of voters might feel like a distant memory — especially after such a bitterly divisive presidential campaign led by billionaire Donald Trump.

Progressives have a new poster child, or series of poster children, for hope. It’s not President-elect Trump or his cabinet picks, but a diverse cast of Americans featured in the “We the People” art campaign.

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