The U.S. has officially designated a powerful gang coalition in Haiti as a foreign terrorist organization, raising concerns the move could deepen the country’s humanitarian crisis.

A new report has found that more than half of Haiti’s population is expected to experience severe hunger through June, and another 8,400 people living in makeshift shelters are projected to starve.

Haiti’s government says it's adopted what it called a “war budget” of $275,000 aimed at alleviating the country’s crisis as gang violence surges.

A new report by the U.N. political mission in Haiti says more than 260 people were killed during recent gang attacks on two communities in the country's capital.

Doctors Without Borders says that four of its vehicles came under fire while they evacuated staff from a hospital in Haiti’s capital as gang violence surges.

The Trump administration is throwing out protections for roughly half a million Haitians that had shielded them from deportation.

The Ennis family, including their 5-month-old daughter, Niah, has been rescued from Haiti's escalating violence by Project DYNAMO, a Florida-based nonprofit specializing in international search and rescue.

Despite legally migrating to the U.S. under the country’s Temporary Protected Status program, many of the thousands of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are fearful President Donald Trump’s promised migration crackdown will soon include them.

Haiti’s online media association says two reporters were killed and several were wounded in a gang attack on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital.

Lionel Messi and Javier Mascherano are together again, this time with Inter Miami.

A powerful gang coalition has launched a new attack on Haiti’s capital.

Masses of residents are fleeing a running battle between gang members and police in one of the few neighborhoods of Haiti’s capital that hadn’t already been fully taken over by the gangs.

JetBlue and other airlines have suspended flights to Haiti due to safety concerns following reports of gunfire striking aircraft, including a JetBlue plane that was hit by a bullet during a flight from Port-au-Prince to New York's JFK Airport.

A transitionary council created to reestablish democratic order in Haiti has signed a decree firing interim Prime Minister Garry Conille.

U.N. officials say more than 1,740 people were killed or injured in Haiti from July to September, a nearly 30% increase over the previous trimester.

Police in Haiti are clashing with gunmen trying to take over one of the few communities in the capital, Port-au-Prince, that is not controlled by gangs.

The death toll in a horrific gang attack last week on a small town in central Haiti has risen to 115.

The Dominican Republic says it has deported or repatriated nearly 11,000 Haitians in the past week.

Angry whispers have broken the heavy silence that fell over Pont-Sondé just days after a vicious gang attack left more than 70 dead.

Thousands of Haitians are facing an uncertain future after surviving a brutal gang attack last week in a small town that killed at least 70 people.

The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the mandate of the Kenya-led multinational force trying to tackle gang violence in Haiti, after brushing off a call from Haiti’s government to start talks on transforming it into a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

Haiti’s government has created a provisional electoral council.

Sure, they call it the City of Light.

A new report from the U.N. migration agency says that surging violence in Haiti from clashes with armed gangs has displaced nearly 580,000 people since March.

Haiti's government says the country's newly selected prime minister has been hospitalized in the capital of Port-au-Prince.

President Joe Biden has offered his deep appreciation to Kenyan President William Ruto for the coming deployment of 1,000 Kenyan police forces to help quell gang violence in Haiti.

Haiti’s main international airport has reopened nearly three months after gang violence forced authorities to close it.

Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader is headed to a second term following general elections.

Haiti’s National Police says it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours.

A new report warns that famine is imminent in Gaza as fighting between Israel and Hamas continues.

A charter flight carrying dozens of U.S. citizens fleeing spiraling gang violence in Haiti has landed in Miami.

A number of government and aid agencies in Haiti have reported their facilities and aid supplies have been looted as Haiti spirals into another wave of gang violence.

The Biden administration can keep operating a program that allows a limited number of migrants from four countries to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds after a federal judge dismissed a challenge from Republican-led states.

The archbishop of Port-au-Prince says six nuns kidnapped in Haiti last week along with two other people have been released.

Gang members have raided a key community in Haiti’s capital that is home to numerous police officers and has been under siege for four days in an ongoing attack.

An attorney for former Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe says he is being questioned by Haitian authorities at a police station a day after the U.S. repatriated him to Haiti.

A heavily armed gang surrounded a hospital in Haiti, trapping women, children and newborns inside until police rescued them.

Flight data shows that more than 260 charter flights believed to be carrying migrants from Haiti have touched down in Nicaragua in recent months.

Kenyan lawmakers say that parliamentary approval is required before the deployment of police to the Kenya-led peacekeeping mission in Haiti to combat gang violence that was approved by the U.N. Security Council this week.

The director of Haiti’s National Police is vowing to hold accountable those who encouraged hundreds of parishioners to take up machetes and sticks over the weekend to rid a community of gang members, only to be fatally shot by them.

A federal judge is questioning whether living in poverty would be enough to qualify someone for a key immigration policy from President Joe Biden.

A key portion of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy that grants parole to thousands of people from Central America and the Caribbean is being debated in a Texas federal courtroom.

The United Nations chief is urging the international community to deploy a multinational force comprising “police special forces and military support units” to Haiti to combat gangs with sophisticated weapons and restore security to the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Change is happening fast in women’s soccer and a leveling of the playing field is being showcased across the globe in the biggest Women's World Cup to date.

The United States arrived at the Women’s World Cup as the favorite to win an unprecedented third consecutive title.

Katie Robinson knows England left many unimpressed with its underwhelming 1-0 victory against overmatched Haiti in its opening match at the Women’s World Cup.

The U.N.’s World Food Program says it is facing a shortage of funds and won’t be able to help 100,000 people in Haiti this month who urgently need assistance.

We officially know the 23 players who will represent the United States in this summer’s FIFA World Cup.

Tropical Storm Bret has formed in the Atlantic Ocean and could threaten the Caribbean.

Hello and welcome back to the extreme weather blog!

Authorities in Haiti say that four people have been killed when a 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck the south of the country.

Houston is set to host two matchups for the 2023 Confederation of North and Central America and Caribbean Association Football Gold Cup this summer.

Authorities in Haiti have identified new suspects in the July 2021 killing of President Jovenel Moïse.

The Biden administration says U.S. authorities have seen a 97% decline in illegal border crossings by migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela since Mexico began accepting those expelled under a public health order.

UNICEF officials say a cholera outbreak sweeping through Haiti is claiming a growing number of children amid a surge in malnutrition.

Haiti’s National Police says it's been ordered to launch an investigation into the death of a journalist who witnesses say was struck in the head by a police tear gas canister.

The World Health Organization and its partners are recommending that countries temporarily switch to using a single dose of the cholera vaccine instead of two due to a global supply shortage.

The United Nations is proposing a “humanitarian corridor” in Haiti’s capital to help people get gasoline and aid amid a mounting crisis as gangs keep blockading roads and access to some areas, including to one key fuel terminal in Port-au-Prince.

Thousands of protesters have marched through Haiti’s capital and other major cities, blocking roads and shutting down businesses to demand that Prime Minister Ariel Henry step down and call for a better quality of life.

Alex Morgan scored a pair of first-half goals and the U.S. women’s national team defeated Haiti 3-0 on Monday in the opening match of the CONCACAF W Championship.

An official says at least eight inmates have died at an overcrowded prison in Haiti that ran out of food two months ago.

Haitians are fleeing in greater numbers to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where they step onto rickety wooden boats as they attempt to reach Puerto Rico — a trip in which 11 Haitian women drowned this week, with dozens of other migrants believed missing.

Authorities in Puerto Rico say 11 people have died and 31 others have been rescued after a boat carrying suspected migrants capsized near an uninhabited island close to the U.S. territory.

Mexican authorities have relocated a migrant camp that sprung up in a park in the border city of Reynosa.

Heavy gunfire is echoing in a once quiet neighborhood in Haiti’s capital that has become ground zero in a gang fight that has killed at least 20 people, injured more than a dozen and forced thousands to flee their homes this week.

Haitian migrants are reaching Florida’s shores in repeated suspected human smuggling operations, outpacing last year’s migration waves.

Haiti's health minister says the country is fighting a rise in COVID-19 cases as the government struggles to convince people to get vaccinated.

The remaining members of a U.S.-based missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago have been freed.

A religious group based in Ohio has announced that a violent gang in Haiti has released three more hostages, while another 12 remain abducted.

Prime Minister Ariel Henry has sworn in his new Cabinet more than four months after he assumed leadership of Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

Relatives and supporters of 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti are praying at least as much for the captors as the captives.

The White House says the U.S. has donated its 200 millionth COVID-19 shot to help vaccinate the rest of the world.

A gang that kidnapped 17 members of a U.S.-based missionary group has demanded $1 million ransom per person.

The streets of Haiti’s capital are quiet and largely empty as thousands of workers angry about the nation’s lack of security go on strike.

As the federal government was working to process and remove an estimated 15,000 migrants from under the international bridge in Del Rio, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials held an “on background” conference call with reporters covering the effort.

U.S. authorities say the Texas border crossing where thousands of Haitian migrants converged in recent weeks will be partially reopened late Saturday afternoon.

Federal and local officials say an encampment in a Texas border town where thousands of Haitian migrants gathered in recent days is now empty.

A camp where almost 15,000 migrants had waited along the Texas border just days ago is now dramatically smaller.

KPRC 2 Investigates spoke with several Haitian immigrants who remain at an encampment just across from Del Rio in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Acuna. Many there said they were aware of the US Government’s plans for mass expulsions of Haitian immigrants, but are still determined to stay in the US.

An emergency demonstration opposing the mass deportation of Haitian migrants will be held on Wednesday afternoon.

Agents moved 3,300 of the migrants as of Sunday. That left more than 12,000 people still waiting to be processed.

At the edge of a pile of rubble Michael Jules plunges an iron bar over and over into the crumbling concrete of his grandmother’s home.

Haiti’s unusually close relationship between the living and the dead has helped hide, in part, the huge toll of Saturday’s earthquake: people in Haiti want to be close to their deceased relatives, to the point of sometimes burying themselves in their front yards.

As if Haiti’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake, a tropical storm and the coronavirus pandemic weren’t enough, the temblor has also damaged the only medical oxygen plant in southern Haiti.

Officials say two doctors at hospitals treating earthquake victims in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince have been kidnapped, forcing one of the institutions to declare a two-day shutdown in protest.

Twin tragedies on opposite sides of the world are piling misery on people who have seen far more than their share.

While it doesn’t seem like there’s much of a difference on the measurement scale, how much of a difference does .2 make, in reality?

Officials in Haiti have raised the death toll from a powerful weekend earthquake to more than 1,900.

A Rice University student shares what his family in Haiti is dealing with after the massive earthquake.

disaster relief

Tropical depression Fred is heading for a drenching of Cuba and the Bahamas on a forecast track that would carry it toward South Florida as a tropical storm by Saturday.

Tropical Storm Fred formed last night at 10pm CDT and is literally limping along to the West Northwest at 16mph, which will take the storm over the mountains of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. That could change the storm’s path a bit, but the National Hurricane Center still has the forecast cone below with a track into Apalachicola late Sunday/Early Monday:

The funeral for slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has been briefly interrupted by nearby gunfire and tear gas as well as agitated supporters that caused U.S. and U.N. officials to leave before his widow spoke publicly for the first time since the attack.

Demonstrations in Cap-Haitien have turned violent as gunshots rang out while supporters of slain President Jovenel Moïse blocked some roads and demanded justice while threatening to disrupt his upcoming funeral.

President Joe Biden says the U_S_ will bolster security at its embassy in Haiti following last week’s assassination of that country’s president, but sending American troops to stabilize the country is “not on the agenda.”.

Sam Vines scored his first international goal on a header in the eighth minute, and a U.S. team mostly of backup players opened the CONCACAF Gold Cup with a 1-0 victory over Haiti.

A UNICEF report says severe acute childhood malnutrition is expected to more than double this year in Haiti as the country struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, a spike in violence and dwindling resources.

The Biden administration is allowing eligible Haitian nationals residing in the U.S. to apply for a new 18-month designation for temporary protected status.

Haiti does not have a single vaccine to offer its more than 11 million people more than a year after the pandemic began.