Claudine Gay’s first public remarks at Harvard since resigning as the university’s president in January came not from lecture notes in a classroom, but from her heart in a chapel on campus. Gay, who resigned amid controversies stemming from the Israel-Hamas war, campus antisemitism, and allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly works, remains a professor at the Ivy League institution. She said her mother emigrated from Haiti “buoyed by a clear and urgent vision for her future,” and an agency placed her with a family in the Boston area, for...

A transitional council tasked with choosing Haiti’s next prime minister and Cabinet has been formally established, as gangs continue to tighten their grip on the troubled Caribbean country. The existence of the council, announced in a decree published Friday in a Haitian government outlet, was expected to trigger the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who promised to step down once the council was created. Henry did not immediately issue a comment following the publication of the decree. The council’s creation comes exactly a month after Caribbean leaders announced plans...

SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. -- A man living with Parkinson's disease who was struck by a stray bullet says he's grateful his injuries are not severe. Andre Thomas, an immigrant from Haiti, has a bandaged arm and a fright he'll never forget. "It's been like hell, because I figure out I could lose my life," he said. Thomas, 60, was helping close up his cousin's laundromat in Spring Valley, New York late Tuesday when suddenly gunfire erupted up the street. Two bullets struck the building, and one came through the window....

City and state officials will address questions from Chelsea residents Thursday about plans for a temporary safety-net shelter for migrant and homeless families that is expected to open in the city this month. State officials said late last month that in April they would open an overflow shelter in the vacant former Chelsea Soldiers’ Home to help address the growing need for emergency housing. The state’s ability to shelter a stream of migrant and homeless families has become a growing political and fiscal challenge amid ever-growing numbers of new arrivals...

The U.S. has begun evacuating some Americans trapped in Haiti amid one of the country’s worst periods of political unrest, but hundreds more have asked the State Department for assistance as gangs continue to control larges swaths of the nation’s capital.