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 federal judge says that a powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who was arrested over the summer in the U.S. can be transferred from Texas to New York to face charges there.

Prosecutors in Mexico are suggesting U.S. authorities made a deal with a Mexican drug lord who turned in himself and another capo to get his brother transferred out of a U.S. prison.

The strange saga of how two Mexican drug lords were detained after landing in a plane in the United States in July just got stranger.

The murders of about a dozen people in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa appear to be linked to cartel infighting, something authorities had feared would follow the July 25 detention of two top cartel leaders.

A powerful Mexican drug cartel leader has made his second appearance in federal court in Texas after being taken into U.S. custody last week.

A son of notorious drug kingpin “El Chapo” has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking and other charges in a Chicago courtroom days after an astonishing capture in the U.S. Joaquín Guzmán López was dressed in an orange jumpsuit and shackled at the feet Tuesday as federal prosecutors detailed a five-count indictment including drug trafficking and weapons charges.

The lawyer of a powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who is now in U.S. custody is pushing back against claims that his client was tricked into flying into the country.

An American nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti amid the Caribbean country's ongoing crisis.

A senior U.S. diplomat has called on China to rise above their differences and work with the United States on difficult global issues such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic as a responsible global power.

Florida’s flights to and from Brazil continue despite the risks of a more contagious coronavirus variant. France is among the countries that have suspended all flights to and from Brazil.

MIAMI – Federal authorities are warning travelers to avoid going to The Bahamas due to coronavirus pandemic-related conditions. The U.S. Department of State’s “reconsider travel” advisory on Monday follows the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s warning on Saturday asking Americans to “avoid all travel” to the Bahamas. Bahamian authorities are requiring tourists to have a travel health visa. Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story erroneously stated that 7,460 cases of COVID-19 had been reported on Tuesday. That number is, in fact, the total number of cases that have been confirmed in the Bahamas to date.

Drew Angerer/2017 Getty Images(CNN) - A gay married couple in Georgia sued the US State Department on Wednesday for refusing to recognize their daughter as a citizen. When they applied for Simone's US citizenship, the US consulate in London rejected their application, the release said. A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on the lawsuit, saying it does not comment on pending litigation. The lawsuit says that, "Because she is the child of two men, the U.S. Department of State evaluated Simone's citizenship under the standards only applicable to children 'born out of wedlock' and refused to recognize Simone's U.S. It accuses the State Department of violating the immigration act, saying it unconstitutionally disregards the "dignity and equality of the marriages of same-sex couples," and discriminates against their children.