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President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, to travel to Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump defends vulgar remarks while partly denying them

By JILL COLVIN and ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Norway Prime Minister Erna Solberg on the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump denies saying ‘sh—hole countries’ in private DACA talks

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs at the Palmer House Hilton, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017 in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun Times via AP) ** FILE **

Joe Biden on Trump’s ‘s—-hole’ comment: ‘It’s not what a president should believe’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, is negotiating for a solution with Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who has been among his party's most liberal members on immigration. (Associated Press/File)

Senators to pursue immigration deal over Trump’s objections

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Maine’s delegation blasts Trump over vulgar remark

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018 photo, residents sit at a construction site in the Caradeux refugee camp, set up nearly eight years ago for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. President Jovenel Moise's government reacted with outrage Friday to reports that President Donald Trump used a vulgar remark to describe the country on the eve of the anniversary of the 2010 earthquake, one of the deadliest disasters in modern history. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Haitian ambassador to U.S.: Trump’s alleged comments, ‘regrettable,’ not helpful to Haiti

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Jan. 9, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. Trump used profane language as he questioned Thursday, Jan. 11, why the U.S. should permit immigrants from certain countries as he rejected a plan by a bipartisan group of senators that would have changed rules affecting entrants from Africa and Haiti, according to three people briefed on the conversation. The White House did not deny the comment. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Members of Haitian community react to Trump’s comments

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President Donald Trump pauses during a prison reform roundtable in the Roosevelt Room of the Washington, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump derides need for immigrants from “sh—hole countries”

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Former US missionary gets 40 years for child sexual abuse

Associated Press

A boy living in a family-style home for abandoned children poses for a photo covering his face with a clown doll in Bucharest, Romania, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. Once infamous for its orphanages, Romania is now emptying them, reuniting abandoned children with their own families or placing them in foster homes, and the goal is to shut the system down completely in a few years. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Global effort to get kids out of orphanages gains momentum

By ALISON MUTLER and GILLIAN WONG and DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Some Amarillo residents embrace, support orphanage in Haiti

By JON MARK BEILUE - Associated Press

The Trump administration said Monday it is ending a temporary residency permit program that has allowed almost 60,000 citizens from Haiti to live and work in the United States since a 2010 powerful earthquake shook the Caribbean nation. The Homeland Security Department said conditions in Haiti have improved significantly, so the benefit will be extended one last time — until July 2019 — to give Haitians time to prepare to return home. (Associated Press)

Temporary Protected Status for Haitians canceled

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Trump administration said Monday it is ending a temporary residency permit program that has allowed almost 60,000 citizens from Haiti to live and work in the United States since a 2010 powerful earthquake shook the Caribbean nation. The Homeland Security Department said conditions in Haiti have improved significantly, so the benefit will be extended one last time — until July 2019 — to give Haitians time to prepare to return home. (Associated Press)

US ending temporary permits for almost 60,000 Haitians

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 9, 2015 file photo, activist Paul Kendrick of Freeport, Maine, poses outside U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Portland, Maine. Lawyers for Kendrick asked in October 2017 that a defamation lawsuit filed by orphanage founder Michael Geilenfeld and U.S. charity, Hearts With Haiti, be dismissed. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Man who accused orphanage founder seeks lawsuit dismissal

By DAVID SHARP - Associated Press

Sandra Honore, a diplomat from Trinidad and Tobago who has served since July 2013 as the head of the U.N. mission in Haiti known as MINUSTAH, listens to a question during an interview in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti is coming to an end on Oct. 15. Immediately afterward, the U.N. will start a new mission made up of international civilian police officers and civilians. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

UN ending 13-year military peacekeeping mission in Haiti

By EVENS SANON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2016 file photo, Haitian-American musician Wyclef Jean talks to the press upon arrival to vote during elections in the Petion-Ville suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Jean, a three-time Grammy winner, gave the command for drivers to start their engines at a NASCAR race at Dover International Speedway in Delaware, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

Wyclef Jean enjoys ‘global gumbo’ in ‘Carnival III’ release

By DAN GELSTON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2016 photo, a Sri Lanka Air Force airman carries the U.N. flag during training for a road patrol at the Institute of Peace Support Operations Training in Kukuleganga, Sri Lanka. A U.N. fund to help victims of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers and U.N. staff has now grown to $1.5 million following contributions from 10 more countries including Sri Lanka, whose troops were implicated in a three-year-long child sex ring in Haiti. The U.N. Department of Field Support made the announcement Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 in New York. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, file)

UN fund for sexual abuse victims grows to $1.5 million

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

Indiana man builds water pumps for South American villages

By MITCHELL KIRK - Associated Press

In this May 24, 2017 photo, a Haitian man makes his way up a dirt road towards a makeshift shelter at The Ambassadors of Jesus Church in Tijuana, Mexico. He is among about 4,000 Haitians to establish roots in Mexico's northwest corner after the United States abruptly closed its doors late last year. The Mexican government has welcomed them, and they are already having an outsize economic and cultural impact. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Correction: Haitians-The Mexican Dream story

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Farm helps international students in agricultural program

By TRACEY O'SHAUGHNESSY - Associated Press