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El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said on social media that he would not initiate conflict with Honduras over the disputed Conejo Island, calling it absurd to fight a neighboring country over an uninhabited islet, while reaffirming military operations in the Gulf of Fonseca will continue to combat drug trafficking.

Arnold Alexander Ávila Guardado, 21, drowned in a river near Austin, Texas, after a sudden surge in water level swept him away while he was swimming with friends; his family is seeking funds to repatriate his body to Honduras.

The US Department of Homeland Security has capped international student visa stays at four years and foreign journalist permits at 240 days (eight months), with extensions available if approved, affecting Honduran students and media professionals seeking to work or study in the United States.

Cristóbal Cortés Cartagena, 39, was arrested by US Border Patrol in Texas on July 4 after illegally reentering the country; he was convicted of child sexual abuse in California in 2010, deported twice, and now faces up to 20 years in federal prison for felony reentry.

Sofía Reyna, wife of entertainer Luis Alfonso 'Pompo' Campa of the Mexican group Los Payasónicos, died on July 3 after a seven-year battle with brain cancer, leaving behind her husband and their son Derek.

The International Organization for Migration reports that 1,449 women died while migrating through the Americas from 2014 to present, with 795 deaths on the Mexico–US border alone, most from desert exposure, criminal violence, and extreme conditions.

Gabriela Verónica Fleritt, a Venezuelan actress and comedian who appeared on 'Bienvenidos'—a show rebroadcast on Honduras's Canal 5—was killed on June 24 when powerful earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela, destroying buildings in Caracas and La Guaira and killing an estimated 1,500 people.

Jessica Gabriela Irías, a Honduran in Texas under immigration supervision and wearing an electronic monitor, fears an upcoming ICE appointment could separate her from her three children, including one with autism, after her husband's recent deportation.

Three Hondurans were found dead in Missouri in what authorities suspect was carbon-monoxide poisoning from a running vehicle; a child survivor is in care, and Honduras's Foreign Ministry is coordinating victim identification and repatriation.

Francisco Cosenza, former director of Honduras's security-funding agency, was sentenced to five years of home confinement with electronic monitoring by a Miami federal judge after admitting to financial transactions involving proceeds from criminal activity.

Cases of Honduran migrants who vanished in Veracruz, Tamaulipas, and Jalisco over the past decade—including José Rafael Rivera in 2008, Aaron Eleazar Carrazco Turcios in 2012, and Oscar Antonio López Enamorado in 2010—remain unsolved as families hold out hope for information on their whereabouts.

Influencer Carlos Eduardo Espina partnered with the Honduran Football Federation and law firm Morgan & Morgan to give away 400 free tickets to low-income families for Honduras' June 6 friendly match against Argentina in Texas.