Potential security threat prompts US travel suspension for border city on alert

Park Magazine editor-in-chief Julie Sagoskin describes how volcanic activity in Italy upended her vacation and forced her to take an approximately 11-hour overnight train to Rome before catching a flight back to New York. U.S. officials temporarily suspended government activities and travel to a Mexican border city earlier this week over a potential security threat. Mexicali, a city directly across from Calexico, California, was the subject of a new security alert after officials received information about a potential threat. In a statement, the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico said that government activities in and travel to Mexicali were suspended Aug. 25. TOURIST HOT SPOT SLAPPED WITH US TRAVEL WARNING RENEWAL DUE TO CRIME AND TERROR "We are alerting U.S. citizens of this potential threat," the embassy said. Officials urged Americans to avoid

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