A Haitian gang is demanding a $17 million ransom for kidnapped missionaries. Alex Murdaugh has been denied bond as he faces charges of taking $3 …
A Haitian gang is demanding a $17 million ransom for kidnapped missionaries. Alex Murdaugh has been denied bond as he faces charges of taking $3 million from his housekeeper’s death settlement. And what’s more effective: COVID-19 vaccine or natural infection? ???? Helloooo! It’s Laura. It’s Tuesday. So here’s Tuesday’s news! The Short List is a snappy USA TODAY news roundup. Subscribe to the newsletter here or text messages here. A wide-ranging strike in protest of the abductions, violence and lawlessness consuming battered Haiti stretched into a second day Tuesday amid reports that a powerful gang was demanding a $17 million ransom for 16 Americans and a Canadian kidnapped three days ago. The streets of Port-au-Prince were oddly quiet and largely empty Monday as the protest shuttered businesses, schools and public transportation. Bold criminal activity was rampant even before the July assassination of President Jovenel Moïse at his home. That crisis, along with an August earthquake that killed more than 2,200 and destroyed more than 130,000 homes, has fueled a near-total collapse of civil order. Haiti’s turmoil reached the global spotlight Saturday when 17 people – seven women, five men, five children, all Americans except one Canadian – were seized in the community of Ganthier east of the capital after they visited an orphanage. The House committee investigating the Jan.6 attack on the Capitol is set to vote Tuesday to advance a contempt citation against former President Donald Trump’s adviser Steve Bannon.
