Life-saving medication and equipment is dwindling or altogether absent at hospitals and clinics across Haiti’s capital as brutal gangs tighten their grip on Port-au-Prince and beyond.
The Biden administration sent reinforcements to the Haiti National Police on Tuesday, deploying a U.S. military aircraft weeks after notifying Congress it would be providing weapons and ammunition to help officers take on ruthless gangs.
Life in Port-au-Prince has become a game of survival, pushing Haitians to new limits as they scramble to stay safe and alive while gangs overwhelm the police and the government remains largely absent.
They call it Okap, home to Haiti’s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries. It was once known as the Paris of the Antilles, and now it is on the brink of becoming what some say is Haiti’s de facto capital as Port-au-Prince crumbles under the onslaught of powerful gangs.
The Interior Department finalized a rule limiting future oil and gas development across 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Dozens of Haitians expelled from the United States were en route to Haiti on Thursday in the Department of Homeland Security’s first deportation flight since an ongoing gang insurgency.
A former United States ambassador was sentenced Friday to 15 years of imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges that he served for decades as a secret agent for Cuba’s spy agency.
The House plans to deliver impeachment articles for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate Tuesday afternoon, after a delay sparked by Senate Republican efforts to ensure an impeachment trial.
Migrant families who’ve stayed overtime at a Cape Cod hotel will be moved out by the end of the month and into an unknown destination, prompting some lawmakers to call for full transparency from the Healey administration on shelter locations.
In a new sign of Venezuelans’ simmering desperation, a poll released Thursday shows that 40% of Venezuelans would consider leaving the South American nation if ruler Nicolás Maduro is declared the winner of July’s presidential election.