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By Jacqueline Charles As Hurricane Melissa approached Jamaica last fall, Wendy Hart and her team at the American Friends of Jamaica hoped the storm would change course. It did not. Instead, Melissa became the strongest hurricane ever to strike the Caribbean island. Although the outcome was devastating, American Friends of Jamaica was ready. Read more at: […]

By  AAMER MADHANI and MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is facing warnings from foes and allies alike that he’s getting boxed in on the Iran war, a conflict he sold as a brief military incursion but that has since settled into a holding pattern. It’s been nearly a week since U.S. and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative agreement to extend

By Jacqueline Charles The Trump administration’s top diplomat in Haiti may soon be leaving his post. Henry T. Wooster, who has spent the past year shaping Washington’s response to the country’s vexing security and political crises as chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy, has been nominated as ambassador to Kenya, the White House announced Monday. Wooster’s

By  MARY CLARE JALONICK, KEVIN FREKING and SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans will meet Tuesday to discuss next steps after the Justice Department said it would comply with a court order pausing the implementation of a $1.776 billion settlement fund designed to compensate President Donald Trump’s political allies. GOP senators who revolted against the settlement before leaving for a Memorial

WLRN Public Media | By Sergio R. Bustos Amnesty International is calling on the Congress and global leaders to halt what it describes as an “unconscionable campaign of extrajudicial killings at sea” carried out by the U.S. military. “These extrajudicial killings are becoming normalized,” said Amanda Klasing, Amnesty International USA’s National Director for Government Relations, in a

Jill Biden’s book, “View from the East Wing,” covers the 2024 election, Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis and their son Hunter’s federal trial. By DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — In her new memoir, former first lady Jill Biden reflects on former President Joe Biden’s poor debate performance against Donald Trump nearly two years ago and wonders whether it would have been

By Jacqueline Charles Caribbean foreign ministers reaffirmed their support for Cuba on Wednesday, but their statement backing Havana also shows the growing divisions over the Trump administration’s policies toward their longtime ally and over broader U.S. policy in the Caribbean. In a declaration issued at the conclusion of a meeting in Suriname, the Council for Foreign

By Sam Gringlas The majority-Black district held for 34 years by South Carolina Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn will survive intact, for now, after Republican state lawmakers rejected a plan to redraw congressional maps. South Carolina was the latest Southern state attempting to redraw district lines after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened a key section of

By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Emma Rumney and Chris Prentice Reuters WASHINGTON – The U.S. FDA’s new, looser regulation of new vapes and nicotine pouches will potentially unleash hundreds more such products on the market in the coming weeks and months, according to three current and former Trump administration officials. The Food and Drug Administration said earlier this month

By Jacqueline Charles The United Nations offered a grim update this month on the worsening violence in Haiti: At least 390 people were killed in intense gang fighting in the Cité Soleil and Croix-des-Bouquets areas of the capital between March 6 and May 16. Some victims were hit by bullets inside their homes or while fleeing