Concerns over Haiti’s disputed presidential elections widened Monday when Catholic bishops and a group of pastors joined an alliance of opposition presidential candidates in demanding an inquiry into the vote. The alliance of eight candidates, led by second-place finisher Jude Célestin and dubbed the G8, reiterated its demand for an independent commission to verify the […]

  Charlie Sheen revealed he is HIV positive Tuesday in an exclusive TODAY interview with Matt Lauer. “It’s a hard three letters to absorb. It’s a turning point in one’s life,” the 50-year-old actor said. Sheen said he made the announcement to end a smear campaign and extortion efforts. “I have to put a stop […]

BY JACQUELINE CHARLES Haitian elections officials are rejecting requests to form an independent commission to verify the preliminary presidential election results, saying the law doesn’t grant them the authority to do so. The decision by the nine-member Provisional Electoral Council came after a meeting with eight presidential candidates Monday night and amid growing calls to […]

BY JAY WEAVER jweaver@MiamiHerald.com Twelve jurors told a Miami federal judge on Friday afternoon that they were deadlocked in deciding the fate of a Haitian National Police officer standing trial on a drug-smuggling charge. But a half hour later — after the judge urged them to find common ground — the jury reached a verdict: […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Government-backed candidate Jovenel Moise and former state construction chief Jude Celestin appear to be advancing to a runoff election for Haiti’s presidency, according to preliminary results announced Thursday. The much-anticipated results from the 54-candidate first-round presidential contest on Oct. 25 were issued by Pierre Louis Opont, the leader of the Provisional […]

Haitians will have to wait until Thursday to learn who won the country’s recent presidential elections or advanced into a Dec. 27 runoff. “Publication of the results have been postponed until [Thursday] to take into account all of the complaints that have been received,” Pierre-Louis Opont, the president of Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council, told the […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —Haitian investigators are looking into new allegations of child sex abuse against an American man who founded an orphanage for boys in Haiti’s capital decades ago and who successfully sued a Freeport, Maine, man for defamation this summer. Police with an arrest warrant searched unsuccessfully Friday for Michael Geilenfeld at a modest private […]

Starting Tuesday, New Yorkers applying for jobs won’t initially need to disclose if they’ve previously been convicted of a crime. The Fair Chance Act, which was introduced in City Council in 2014 by Council Member Jumaane Williams, passed by the council in June and signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio in late July. The law, […]