Cross-border kidney crisis: A new report highlights mesoamerican nephropathy—chronic kidney disease affecting many workers along Central America’s Pacific coast and also in the U.S.—with suspected links to agrochemicals, heat stress, and dehydration. Heat-risk rescue: U.S. Border Patrol rescued eight migrants, including three Salvadorans and a child, trapped inside a freight train car near Knippa, Texas, after a canine alert; officials warn extreme heat and confinement can turn deadly fast. El Salvador TPS pressure in the U.S.: With El Salvador’s Temporary Protected Status set to end Sept. 9, community leaders say uncertainty is rising for hundreds of thousands and could disrupt families and local workforces. Local health diplomacy: San Juan Mayor Francis Zamora held consultations in Northern Mindanao and Caraga and formalized sister-city cooperation with El Salvador City, including healthcare among priority areas. Public health supply support: The Cuban Schafik Handal Center donated 250 pounds of medicines and surgical supplies to El Salvador’s Francisco Castro Ceruto Polyclinic to ease shortages. Immigration-linked tragedy in Maryland: ICE lodged a detainer in a wrong-way DUI crash that killed a mother and her adult daughter; the suspect is described as an El Salvador national.