Claudia Sheinbaum takes office as Mexico's first female president
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Claudia Sheinbaum took office Tuesday as Mexico's first female president in the nation's more than 200 years of independence.
The 62-year-old former Mexico City mayor and lifelong leftist campaigned on a promise of continuity and of protecting and expanding the signature initiatives of her mentor, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
In the four months between her election and inauguration she held that line, backing López Obrador on issues big and small. But Sheinbaum is a very different person; she likes data and doesn't have López Obrador's backslapping personal touch.
A senior White House official told CBS News on Tuesday that the U.S. had "indications that Iran is preparing to imminently launch a ballistic missile attack against Israel." The warning, which Israel's military said had been communicated from Washington, came hours after Israel announced the beginning of "limited, localized, and targeted ground raids" against the Iran-backed group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Almost a year after Israel launched its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the Iran-backed group's Oct. 7 terrorist rampage, it announced the beginning of what the Israel Defense Forces said would be "limited, localized, and targeted ground raids" against Iran's much larger, better-armed proxy group Hezbollah in Lebanon. The ground operations were announced after about two weeks of blistering airstrikes on Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital, Beirut, which have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced about 1 million people from their homes, according to Lebanese officials.