Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Cabinet next week will consider approximately $90 million in grants for local law enforcement agencies throughout the state.

The United States has imposed sanctions on Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel, along with four other individuals, according to a filing Thursday on the U.S. Treasury Department website. Included in the sanctions are Alejandro Castro Espín, the son of former President Raúl Castro, who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba.

Residents of Havana are dealing with a growing garbage crisis. Piles of waste have been accumulating on nearly every street corner, worsened by a U.S. energy blockade that caused power outages and a fuel crisis.

An Associated Press investigation reveals that dozens of children who were separated under the first Trump administration have been re-separated, despite a judge's order to reunite them. Some of their parents have been locked in immigration detention facilities for months, others deported back to their home countries after being taken from their families once again.

COMMENTARY Colombia should have shed its violent, centuries-old polarization when its civil war ended, but its political pendulum still swings far right and far left — especially in this presidential election.

Thousands of U.S-based Cuban immigrants have been deported to Mexico under the Trump administration, according to Human Rights Watch. Left in limbo, they are stranded in the country — unable to return to either the U.S or Cuba.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean during a Senate hearing June 2, saying the Defense Department determined the strikes’ legality and based its decisions on intelligence information. Here’s a rundown of our recent fact-checks and stories about the boat strikes.

Right-wing Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo De la Espriella was the attorney for Venezuela's alleged corruption mastermind, Colombian-born Alex Saab, when UM prof Bruce Bagley was recruited into Saab's money-laundering schemes. Did De la Espriella help facilitate the relationship?

The U.S. government has granted a visa to Woodensky Pierre, the only member of Haiti’s national soccer team living in the Caribbean country.

Peru is grappling with a surge in extortion and violence, especially in areas like Trujillo. Gladys Saavedra, who works in a market there, says extortionists demand $300 monthly from vendors. Last June, the market was set on fire when the women refused to pay. Crime has become a major concern as Peruvians prepare to elect a new president.