Hurricane Melissa barreled through the Caribbean on Wednesday, thrashing Cuba after unleashing devastation in Jamaica and drenching Haiti, where at least 25 were killed.

The United Nations Security Council, with the Trump administration leading the charge, has authorized a 5,550-member strong Gang Suppression Force (GSF) to confront gang control in Haiti. It marks the first solid hope for restoring security since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.

People across the northern Caribbean were digging out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa​ on Thursday as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed.

Melissa Sapini, who won Miss Massachusetts USA in 2024, will soon fly to Thailand to represent Haiti at Miss Universe, which is set to take place on Nov. 21. Sapini previously made headlines as a winning pageant contestant and close friend of Jordon Hudson and Bill Belichick.

At least 20 people are dead in Haiti and another dozen are missing after a river in the town of Petit-Goâve, southwest of Port-au-Prince, flooded as Hurricane Melissa bombarded the country with heavy rain as it battered nearby Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 storm.

The sobering reality of the enormous destruction from Hurricane Melissa is becoming clearer as Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba begin to assess the damage while the storm heads toward Bermuda.

The United Nations human rights chief said Monday that 184 people were killed over the weekend in the Haitian capital, as Port-au-Prince was rocked by a spike in gang violence that pushed the death toll from Haiti's spiraling security crisis to at least 5,000.

Nine people, including an Irish missionary and a three-year-old child, were kidnapped from an orphanage near Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince on Sunday, officials said. Gena Heraty, the facility's director, was among those taken from the privately-run ...