Tracey Mumford

In Mexico, authorities are sharing new details about how they tracked down the country's most wanted cartel leader, known as El Mencho, who was killed by security forces on Sunday.

Mexico's defense minister said authorities found the criminal kingpin, who'd been on the run for years, by tracking one of his romantic partners.

Late last week, she traveled to meet him at a cabin in the mountains of the Jalisco state.

After she left, authorities raided the cabin.

El Mencho fled into the woods as a gun battle broke out between Mexican troops and his security team.

Special forces then tracked him down.

He was severely injured and later died while being transported to a medical facility.

The defense minister said Mexican intelligence officers led the search, but that information from American authorities helped pinpoint the cartel leader's location.

Meanwhile, the mayhem that broke out across the country after El Mencho's death has now largely subsided.

Cartel operatives had blocked highways and set fire to buildings and cars in a show of force.

Authorities say at least 62 people were killed.

A majority of them were suspected cartel members or members of the Mexican military.

The violence rattled many cities, including some that are central to Mexico's tourism industry, which is a vital economic driver for the country.

Several major U.S.

airlines canceled flights to Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara yesterday, and the operators of three cruise ships that were set to dock on Mexico's Pacific coast in the coming days have canceled their visits.

In Canada today, OpenAI, the company that runs ChatGPT, will face questions about how the 18-year-old behind a recent mass shooting used its platform.

The country's Minister of Artificial Intelligence has said he was, quote, deeply disturbed by reports about what the company may have known before the attack.

Earlier this month, the shooter killed two of her family members at home before driving to a school and killing five children and one educator.

A Times review of her social media accounts found she had a years-long struggle with mental health issues and a growing fascination with weapons and extreme violence.

Last June, messages she sent to ChatGPT raised flags internally at OpenAI, and she was banned from the platform.