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.

Dozens of people are swimming and wading across Haiti’s longest river in a desperate attempt to flee gangs.

The United Nations and human rights activists are warning about an increase in pregnant women being deported from the Dominican Republic to Haiti where they say their lives are being put at risk.

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 has approved 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.

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Marleine Bastien stood with a group of activists Friday to advocate for Haitians in South Florida whose immigration status is going to change.

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

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has halted the processing of certain parole program applications, affecting thousands of immigrants already in the country.

For decades, Project Medishare has maintained a significant presence in Haiti, providing critical care, medicine, trauma services and even operating maternal health centers.

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.

Among the major orders from the Trump Administration late last week, the end of the Biden Administration's very specific parole program that could now leave countless people from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and Nicaragua in limbo or suddenly deportable.

Haitians marked the 15th anniversary of a tragedy on Sunday.

The Family Action Network Movement held a vigil Sunday to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, bringing together South Florida leaders and community advocates in Little Haiti.

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.

Gangs attacked a critical trauma center in Port-au-Prince and set it on fire. Local 10 News spoke with an advocate of that hospital about the effects this latest tragedy will have on an already fragile country.

Haiti’s main international airport has reopened one month after it closed for the second time this year because of gang violence.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Anthony Rodriguez, the chairman for the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners; U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the Haitian-American Democrat who represents Florida’s District 20; Christi Fraga, the mayor of the city of Doral; and Randy Deshazo, the deputy director of the South Florida Regional Planning Council.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Anthony Rodriguez, the chairman for the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners; U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the Haitian-American Democrat who represents Florida’s District 20; Christi Fraga, the mayor of the city of Doral; and Randy Deshazo, the deputy director of the South Florida Regional Planning Council.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the Haitian-American Democrat who represents Florida's District 20.

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.

A Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, came under gunfire during its landing attempt Monday, and passengers are now sharing their frightening experiences with Local 10 News.

Travelers on Royal Caribbean cruise ships with itineraries including Labadee, Haiti will continue their trips as planned, according to the company.

Officials are blaming illegal firearms for an increase or a record number of killings in a growing number of Caribbean islands this year.

The Federal Aviation Administration put in a temporary ban on all flights from the U.S. to Haiti after a Spirit Airlines jet, flying from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, sustained gunfire while trying to land in Port-au-Prince on Monday, injuring a flight attendant.

A Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Port-au-Prince came under gunfire while trying to land in the Haitian capital, the Haiti National Office of Civil Aviation told ABC News.

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

A Miami-based professor is warning that heightened deportation efforts under potential Trump administration policies could impact over a million immigrants in Florida alone, with local communities and families facing serious consequences.

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.

Donald Trump has voiced his desire to get rid of the Temporary Protected Status for Haitians so many times that migrants and advocates are worried that he may get reelected this November.

A Haitian national was brought back to the United States after her attorney says she was unfairly deported.

Some Haitians and Haitian Americans in South Florida were still outraged Sunday about former Donald Trump’s assertion that “in Springfield, they’re eating the dogs; they’re eating the cats.”

Haiti’s government has created a provisional electoral council.

The Florida secretary of state defended an investigation into petition fraud, as advocates gather signatures to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution through the proposed Amendment 4 — subject to a referendum on the November ballot.

Haitian authorities continued their response Sunday to a tanker truck explosion that killed at least 24 people in Haiti’s Nippes region.

Haiti's prime minister says at least 15 people have been killed and 40 others seriously injured after a tanker truck carrying gasoline flipped over and exploded.

A recent wave of misinformation has sparked significant backlash from South Florida’s Haitian community after Republican Vice President nominee JD Vance propagated a false rumor claiming that a Haitian neighbor was preparing to eat a lost cat.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg talks to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava after her re-election. She also hosts a Roundtable with Jesse Scheckner, of Florida Politics; Douglas Hanks, of The Miami Herald; and Anthony Man, of The Sun Sentinel; and she presents Anchor Calvin Hughes’s one-on-one interview with the new prime minister of Haiti.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg talks to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava after her re-election. She also hosts a Roundtable with Jesse Scheckner, of Florida Politics; Douglas Hanks, of The Miami Herald; and Anthony Man, of The Sun Sentinel; and she presents Anchor Calvin Hughes’s one-on-one interview with the new prime minister of Haiti.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg talks to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava after her re-election. She also hosts a Roundtable with Jesse Scheckner, of Florida Politics; Douglas Hanks, of The Miami Herald; and Anthony Man, of The Sun Sentinel; and she presents Anchor Calvin Hughes’s one-on-one interview with the new prime minister of Haiti.

This Week In South Florida: Exclusive interview with Haiti’s new prime minister has message for diaspora

After arriving at Haiti’s National Palace this week, Local 10 News witnessed a significant change in the Caribbean nation: dozens of members of its newly reformed military, marking the first time since the 1990s that Haiti has had an army.

Dramatic scenes unfolded on the streets of Port-au-Prince Monday morning, highlighting the ongoing struggle for control in Haiti’s capital.

Local 10′s Calvin Hughes arrived in Port-au-Prince on Monday, bringing viewers a firsthand look at Haiti’s challenges and efforts to rebuild a country that was once hailed as the crown jewel of the Caribbean.

Children in Haiti desperately need the country’s new prime minister to succeed.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Torey Alson, a Broward School Board member; Rodney Jacobs and Chad Klitzman, both Democrats running for the Florida State Senate; and Scott Galvin, a North Miami councilman. Local 10 News Anchor Calvin Hughes talks about his coverage of Haiti.

Amid an ongoing anti-gang crackdown involving a United Nations-backed law enforcement mission, Haitian authorities reported a prison break turned deadly in Saint-Marc, a coastal city north of Port-au-Prince.

Ernesto continued to strengthen on Thursday morning as it churned northward into the Atlantic about 250 miles northeast of the Turks and Caicos and the southeastern Bahamas.

The office of Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille says security officers had to fire shots to cover leader’s exit from a hospital in Port-au-Prince.

Sure, they call it the City of Light.

Officials in Haiti say at least three people have died and up to 40 remain missing after a boat in the waters off northern Haiti caught fire with up to 80 Haitians on board trying to escape to the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Fort Lauderdale Commissioner John Herbst, Florida Rep. Hillary Cassel, Miami-Dade Commissioner Oliver Gilbert, and U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick.

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille met with U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson on Saturday at the Notre Dame d’Haiti Catholic Church in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood.

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.

Border Patrol agents are investigating after they say five individuals from both Haiti and the Dominican Republic were apprehended following a “migrant landing” on Hillsboro Beach Sunday night.

With thousands of people in Haiti driven from their homes by gang violence, some children find distraction from their harsh lives in arts classes.

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.

President Joe Biden has welcomed Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House to kick off a three-day state visit.

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.

Frantz Fabien is among the Haitians in South Florida who are worried about the possibility of the expiration of the Temporary Protected Status in August.

A man appeared in Fort Lauderdale federal court Monday after federal authorities busted him smuggling nearly three dozen migrants on his boat off the coast of South Florida, according to a criminal complaint.

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.

The U.S. State Department confirmed on Monday that three flights of rescued Americans had come from Haiti, and that more were expected on Tuesday.

A Florida Division of Emergency Management flight from Haiti landed early Sunday morning at Orlando International Airport with 21 Floridians rescued from the crisis. Hundreds more want to leave.

The second flight chartered by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis transporting U.S. citizens out of Haiti landed at Miami International Airport on Thursday.

As chaos continued in Haiti, Gov. Ron DeSantis worried about a mass migration and deployed members of the Florida National Guard to help enforce immigration law at sea.

Miriam Cinotti, a Florida missionary, was one of 13 U.S. citizens who were evacuated from Haiti over the weekend after gang violence sent the country into chaos.

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

The airport in Port-au-Prince remains closed as gangs control the area, leading to the first official evacuation flight bringing 30 Americans to Miami on Sunday.

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

Three new Florida state laws are aimed at illegal entry and undocumented people in Florida.

There is an ongoing scramble to staunch the street violence in Haiti's cities and neighborhoods and help the people whose families are watching from South Florida, helpless and bracing for the possibility of a Florida-bound mass exodus.

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.

Nestled off the Overseas Highway, an encampment awaits the arrival of additional state law enforcement officers in the Florida Keys.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference Friday morning at the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Winter Haven.

Travelers on cruises in the Caribbean are receiving changes to their itineraries because of the political unrest in Haiti.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is ordering more than 250 law enforcement officers and soldiers to the Florida Keys to help stop what he anticipates to be an increase in Haitian migrants fleeing violence in their country.

The next step for Haiti is a transitional government and elections, which hasn't happened in eight years in the country, and a new leader.

Deteriorating conditions in Haiti are capturing the attention of Haitian-Americans in South Florida.

Politicians across Haiti are scrambling for power after Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced that he would resign once a transitional presidential council is created.

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On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg welcomes Vicki Lopez, Shevrin Jones, Tom Fabricio, Glendon Hall, and Jacqueline Charles.

As Haitian gang violence runs rampant, the U.S. military airlifted personnel in and out of the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Southern Command reported on Sunday at the request of the U.S. State Department.

As Haitian gang violence runs rampant, the U.S. military airlifted personnel in and out of the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Southern Command reported on Sunday at the request of the U.S. State Department.

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.

Officials say six members of a religious congregation in Haiti and a teacher have been kidnapped while gathered in front of a school in the capital.

Haitian Bishop Pierre-André Dumas was at Jackson Memorial Hospital on Saturday after arriving at Miami International Airport.

Bishop Pierre Andre Dumas gave the homily when he visited Miami’s Notre Dame D’haiti church two years ago.

The former first lady of Haiti, as well as the ex-Prime Minister have been indicted in the assassination plot of Haitian President Jovenel Moise.

A judge in Haiti responsible for investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has indicted his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haiti’s National Police, Léon Charles.

Authorities are seeking to raise awareness within the South Florida community after they say a man accused of operating an orphanage in Haiti traveled to the country to sexually abuse a minor.

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