Haitians officials on Sunday revised the death toll from a stampede inside the country’s historic Citadelle Laferrière mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti to 25 from an initial estimate of 30. Another 33 people were also injured during the crush.

The revised toll came after judicial authorities in the town of Milot were finally able to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly six years after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, the city’s elected leaders are again locked in a bitter stalemate over the future of public safety.

The City Council narrowly voted on Thursday to reject Mayor Jacob Frey’s community safety commissioner, Toddrick Barnette. The position was ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — At two Minnesota autism treatment centers, any child — autistic or not — could be qualified for services, federal prosecutors allege.

That is one way authorities claim those individual health care providers defrauded a state program, billing the Department of Human Services and insurers roughly $20 million over five years.

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Peruvians are heading to the polls Sunday to elect a new president from among a record 36 candidates and to overhaul the legislature, which for the first time in over three decades will return to a bicameral system.

This is one of Peru’s most complex elections, with the largest and most expensive ballot sheets in its tumultuous history. With ...Read more

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar’s Tisza party took a commanding early lead in elections that may end Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule.

Magyar’s Tisza party was on course to win 64% of parliamentary mandates compared with 31% for Orban’s Fidesz, according to the Election Office in Budapest on Sunday, with 22% of the ...Read more

At least 30 people are dead, many of them school-age children as young as 12, after a gathering advertised on TikTok turned tragic on Saturday at Haiti’s premier mountaintop fortress.

The deaths were confirmed by Haiti Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who told the Miami Herald “the government is mobilizing” the ministry of health, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump responded to the collapse of high-stakes negotiations with Iran by escalating the conflict on Sunday, ordering a full blockade of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — a risky move that could drive global oil prices higher and provoke confrontation with a far more formidable adversary.

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BOSTON -- An ICE agent was injured after being pinned by a suspect’s vehicle last week in Quincy, Massachusetts, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson.

The incident occurred around 11 a.m. Friday on Bigelow St. during a “targeted arrest” of an illegal immigrant, the DHS said in a statement.

After stopping the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will blockade the Strait of Hormuz following the failure of peace talks with Iran in Islamabad this weekend, a move that will likely exacerbate oil and fuel shortages globally.

“Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles school officials announced on Sunday morning that a tentative agreement has been reached with the teachers union, making it possible that a planned Tuesday strike could be averted.

The tentative two-year agreement with the United Teachers Los Angeles would increase "salary scales by 11.65%" and raise the beginning ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s plan to blockade the Strait of Hormuz would halt the nearly 2 million barrels a day of Iranian oil that’s been passing through the waterway, further squeezing global supply and cutting off a vital lifeline for the Islamic Republic.

On Sunday, ship transits remained at greatly reduced levels in the face of Tehran’s...Read more