Associated Press

Regional carrier Silver Airways announced Wednesday it is shutting down operations after a failed attempt at restructuring through bankruptcy, leaving some passengers stranded at airports in Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

Two South Florida shark divers convicted of theft for freeing 19 sharks and a giant grouper from a fisherman’s longline have been pardoned by President Donald Trump. Pardons for Tanner Mansell and John Moore Jr. were signed last week.

A U.S. citizen, Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez, was arrested in Florida under a state immigration law that a judge has put on hold.

Yaquelin Dominguez-Nieves, 26, who had been living in Sebring, Florida, was sentenced in Miami federal court, according to court records. She pleaded guilty in January to conspiring to smuggle people into the U.S.

“I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, gave Brazil its first Oscars win on Sunday in the best international film category.

A man revered by millions as the “doctor of the poor” will be the first saint from Venezuela. Pope Francis approved a decree Tuesday but did not set a date for the canonization of Dr. José Gregorio Hernández, who died in 1919.

Power has been restored to most of Chile’s 19 million people after the nation’s most disruptive blackout in 15 years. Authorities said on Wednesday that they lifted the strict curfew imposed hours earlier as the outage left 98% of the population without electricity.

Immigration officials are saying that anyone living in the U.S. illegally will soon have to register with the federal government, and those who fail to do so could face fines, imprisonment or both.

Eight green sea turtles stunned by the cold during a rare snowfall in Florida have been released back into the Atlantic Ocean.

Brazil's top prosecutor Paulo Gonet has formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.

A spokesperson for the Florida Fellowship of Hispanic Councils and Evangelical Institutions, said community members, including many who supported Donald Trump in the last election cycle, now feel devastated and abandoned.

Gustavo Petro said that his government would provide loans to those who take up his offer to return home and enlist in one of its programs to start a business.