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Among those freed under the deal brokered by the U.S. government were 13 affiliated with Mountain Gateway, an American evangelical church. Nicaragua released 135 political prisoners -- including 13 people [...]

Evangelical pastors led by a Texas missionary in Nicaragua were accused of money laundering, in a widespread crackdown on religious groups. As Nicaragua has come under the tightening grip of [...]

President Nicolás Maduro's government ejected seven diplomatic missions from countries that condemned his claim of victory, which he made despite reports of fraud. Protests broke out Monday in Caracas, Venezuela's [...]

Railroad unions are raising safety concerns about the growing use of remote-controlled trains after a rash of fatal accidents. One evening last June, as Esther Iradukunda set the table for [...]

The latest assault by Haitian gangs left three people, including two American missionaries and a local pastor, dead in Port-au-Prince. An Oklahoma-based missionary group working in Haiti's capital was attacked [...]

A Haitian prosecutor has issued a criminal complaint naming several people as potential conspirators in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, including his wife. A Haitian prosecutor has recommended charges [...]

The findings in the death of Oswaldo Payá contradict the Cuban government's official version of what happened 11 years ago. The Cuban government was responsible for the death in 2012 [...]

The suspects, including three Americans, were arrested and indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday for their alleged ties to the 2021 killing. Federal agents arrested four men whom [...]

Judge Reinhart has faced a wave of criticism, disinformation and online threats over his involvement in the F.B.I.'s search. Ever since the F.B.I. searched the Mar-a-Lago estate of former President [...]

Impatient With Gun Debate, Parkland Survivors Embraced Activism With each new mass shooting, the nightmares come to haunt Sam Fuentes's sleep. After a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers [...]

Two months after regulators there suspended the boutique online bank, the outspoken libertarian economist said he had agreed to return $66.7 million in deposits. Peter Schiff, the libertarian economist and [...]

Wanda Vázquez, who was defeated in a bid for another term in 2020, is accused of taking bribes to influence a regulatory appointment. A former governor of Puerto Rico, Wanda [...]

The sounds of gunfire and children screaming filled the courtroom. Jurors will decide whether the man who killed 17 people in 2018 will be sentenced to death. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. [...]

Legislators and gun control advocates are asking how the 21-year-old suspect was able to buy several weapons despite alarming police encounters and relatively strict state laws. HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. -- [...]

Law enforcement killed the gunman more than an hour after the first officers arrived at an elementary school in Texas. Nineteen students and two teachers died in the attack. UVALDE, [...]

ENTERPRISE, Fla. -- It was getting dark, so sheriff's deputies used the lights on their rifles to get a better look at the two children who had been holed up [...]

The proceedings that began last week test the government's ability to root out violent extremism at home. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Few people took the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions that swept [...]

Coast Guard officials said a search was still underway for 38 migrants missing after a boat capsized off Florida. The situation looked increasingly dire. KEY WEST, Fla. -- The maritime [...]

The plan restructures $33 billion in debt nearly five years after Puerto Rico became the first U.S. state or territory to essentially declare bankruptcy. MIAMI -- Puerto Rico received approval [...]

A former Colombian commando is the first to face U.S. prosecution in the killing of Jovenel Moïse, after agents flew him to Miami from Panama. MIAMI -- The United States [...]

The attacks occurred for several weeks across poor Black neighborhoods in the St. Louis area. Many were linked to a single gun. But whose? It started outside St. Louis in [...]

The news media was fascinated with the disappearance of Gabrielle Petito. But the families of many women who go missing, especially women of color, struggle for attention. NORTH MIAMI, Fla. [...]

The statement from the Rock Hill Police Department was unequivocal about what Travis Price did: He belligerently obstructed officers as they arrested his brother on a gun charge; he shoved [...]

Haitian officials accuse the suspects of meeting to plot President Jovenel Moïse's assassination, but participants say the sessions were intended to plan a government once the president stepped down. BOGOTÁ, [...]

Security forces took dozens of protesters into custody following a wave of protests on Sunday. But dissidents expressed hope the demonstrations would lead to lasting change. Guillermo Fariñas, a veteran [...]

An expert called upon after the 9/11 attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing is now examining the Champlain Towers North in Surfside, Fla., to discover why its sister building collapsed. [...]

The president clung to power in a protracted political battle that earned him many enemies. MIAMI -- It was a battle from the start for Haiti's president, Jovenel Moïse. Even [...]

The partially collapsed structure might not withstand a coming storm, officials fear. SURFSIDE, Fla. -- Florida officials said on Saturday that they were rushing to demolish the part of the [...]

The chief building official of Surfside, Fla., had worked in at least six South Florida cities. SURFSIDE, Fla. -- José L. Haar is still claustrophobic and suffers from chronic back [...]

MIAMI -- A secret marriage. A cryptic phone call. And then, a flight to Cuba from which Alina López Miyares never returned. It was months later that her family learned [...]

The church said the killing of eight people at Atlanta spas was ''an extreme and wicked act.'' Police records show prostitution-related arrests at one of the targeted businesses between 2011 [...]

President Trump has doled out pardons to friends and fellow Republicans. Thousands of others without connections have largely been left out. Nichole M. Forde, a federal inmate serving 27 years [...]

Nearly 200 boxes of uncounted votes have surfaced, potentially affecting the outcome of several close races across the island. Nearly 200 boxes of uncounted votes have surfaced in Puerto Rico, [...]

From the days of the Civil War, Georgia has allowed its residents to arrest one another. But after the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, critics are calling for such laws [...]

The police chief was charged in federal court in New York with helping to ship tons of cocaine into the United States at the behest of the Honduran president and [...]

Nearly 400 Americans and Canadians were evacuated from the Costa Luminosa, an Italian cruise liner, after several passengers tested positive for the coronavirus. They flew home anyway. KEY WEST, Fla. [...]

A woman in Florida charged with 10 felony counts of submitting false voter registration forms had filed hundreds of forms before her arrest. Wherever crowds gathered in the flat, lake-dotted [...]

Alexa Negrón Luciano was shot to death hours after a McDonald's customer complained that Ms. Negrón had spied on her in the women's room. Alexa Negrón Luciano, transgender and homeless, [...]

NASSAU, Bahamas -- About 2,500 people have been reported missing in the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, but the names have yet to be checked against those who [...]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A Chinese businesswoman who talked her way into President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort with a cache of electronics and a story about wanting to use the pool [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] Haley Robson was a 16-year-old South Florida high school student when an acquaintance [...]

Brian A. Hawkins Googles his name and last employer and winces. The words that appear are verbs like ''fired,'' ''axed'' and ''sacked.'' The former information technology director of Lake City, [...]

SAN JUAN, P.R. -- Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló of Puerto Rico announced his resignation on Wednesday, conceding that he could no longer credibly remain in power after an extraordinary popular [...]

SAN JUAN, P.R. -- Law enforcement authorities in Puerto Rico executed search warrants on Tuesday against several people in Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló's inner circle whose exchange of sexist and [...]

At a news conference in Washington, R. Alexander Acosta, the labor secretary and a former United States attorney in Florida, on Wednesday gave his account of how federal prosecutors dealt [...]

LAKE CITY, Fla. -- Audrey Sikes, city clerk of Lake City, Fla., has a thing for documents: She does not like losing them. It falls to Ms. Sikes, as official [...]

New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft all but defeated two charges of solicitation of prostitution when a Florida county judge on Monday threw out key evidence obtained in surveillance [...]

Mickael Behn grew up attending shareholder meetings of a port company that no longer existed, except on paper. The Havana Docks Company used to run maritime operations in the busy [...]

It was the day before the 2016 presidential election, and at the Volusia County elections office, near Florida's Space Coast, workers were so busy that they had fallen behind on [...]

The battle over whether prosecutors can release police surveillance videos of the New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft and 24 other men charged with solicitation of prostitution in Florida [...]