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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government has given a visa to Woodensky Pierre, the only member of Haiti’s national soccer team who lives in the Caribbean country, to travel and participate in the World Cup, an official said Tuesday. Thecieux Jeanty, Haiti’s soccer federation spokesperson, told The Associated Press that Pierre is scheduled to travel to Florida on Tuesday. “It was a great moment for him, a […]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s government has filed notice under a U.N. agreement on maritime law for compulsory conciliation of a sea border dispute with neighboring Thailand, Prime Minister Hun Manet said Tuesday. At issue is territory claimed by both that is believed to contain large, exploitable amounts of natural gas and other hydrocarbons. The decision to take the matter to the the U.N. Convention on the Law of […]

KFF Health News and The Associated Press sifted through thousands of immigration habeas corpus claims to find allegations of medical neglect from people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the second Trump administration. Without a comprehensive, publicly available dataset of medical complaints by those in ICE custody, we used immigration habeas corpus claims to identify detainees’ healthcare-related allegations raised in federal court. Although the intended purpose of habeas […]

An investigation by KFF Health News and The Associated Press has found that hundreds of detainees across at least 33 states allege immigration detention facilities are failing to provide adequate medical care. Detainees allege they didn’t receive medications on time — or at all — for conditions including high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, epilepsy, Parkinson’s and HIV. Requests for help went unanswered for weeks. Blood sugars rose. Infections festered. Cancers […]

An Albanian man’s pain grew so unbearable, he said, he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention center. A Honduran mother of two said she was hospitalized for a heart problem after she was denied blood pressure medications while held in Florida. A Venezuelan man said his leg grew purple and swollen from flesh-eating bacteria when staffers at a Vermont facility […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will face a litany of questions Tuesday about the Trump administration’s diplomatic efforts around the world, including Iran, when he appears for back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill for the first time since the Iran war began.  Senate Republicans will meet Tuesday to discuss next steps after the Justice Department said it would comply with a court order pausing the implementation of a $1.776 billion settlement fund designed to compensate President […]

June 2 (Reuters) – Five U.S. residents who were on the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship have returned to their home states following three weeks of monitoring at the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the facility said on Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had requested the individuals from the cruise ship remain at the NQU through May 31. UNMC said the five […]

Andreeva powers into French Open semifinals and sets up showdown with Ukrainian PARIS (AP) — Teenager Mirra Andreeva has dominated Sorana Cirstea at the French Open 6-0, 6-3 to reach the semifinals for the second time. Rain arrived in Paris on Tuesday and play started under the closed roof of Court Philippe-Chatrier. Cirstea was competing in the quarterfinals for the first time in 17 years and struggled against her 19-year-old […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — On the eve of the Stanley Cup Final between the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes, one of the general managers involved laid out his thinking when making roster moves. “We want to be aggressive off the ice,” the GM said. “When you have a chance to add really high-end players, we never want to miss out on it.” While the Golden Knights under Kelly McCrimmon […]