Calls for military response to Mexican drug cartels grow as 2 kidnapped US citizen reported dead

The fate of four Americans abducted in Mexico was confirmed Tuesday after authorities confirmed their whereabouts amid growing calls for U.S. military intervention. Friday, Latavia “Tay” McGee, Shaeed Woodward, Zindell Brown and Eric James Williams were reportedly kidnapped in Matamoras, Tamaulipas, Mexico, near Brownsville, Texas as the group had ventured over the border seeking a medical procedure. Video had captured the harrowing moments when they had been loaded into the back of a pickup truck and taken away, and Tuesday morning the Associated Press confirmed two of the victims were...