17 suspects, including 2 Americans, detained in Haiti.
Tropical storm Elsa moves north; 17 suspects, including two Americans, were detained in Haiti for alleged roles in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise. Tonight's Sentences was written by Gregory Svirnovskiy. Tropical storm Elsa pummels the Eastern seaboard Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images -
Tropical storm Elsa is moving up the coast. After making landfall in Florida and pummeling much of the Southeastern seaboard, Elsa moved on Friday through New Jersey, New York City, and Boston, spurring on violent winds and flood conditions in its wake. [CNN / Madeline Holcombe] -
The thunderstorms on Elsa's exterior hit New York City Thursday, submerging at least one subway station and closing roadways. Travelers were forced to trudge through water to find their trains and 12 motorists were rescued from their cars in the Bronx. [USA Today / Ryan W. Miller] -
But the body of the storm was making its way through Georgia and the Carolinas Thursday. Seven inches of rain fell in parts of each state and a dozen tornado warnings forced people to stay inside and take cover. [AccuWeather / Mark Puleo] -
Elsa made landfall in the US in Taylor County, Florida, on Wednesday. More than 30,000 people lost power, but no structural damage was recorded in the state. One person was killed In Jacksonville. [Orlando Sentinel / Joe Mario Pedersen and David Harris] -
By Friday night, Elsa will exit into Canada, no longer strong enough to be called a tropical storm. It's the first named storm to hit the Eastern seaboard in what figures to be an especially busy and fraught hurricane season. Officials are bracing for worse. [The Weather Channel] 2 Americans detained after assassination of Haiti's president -
17 suspects, including two US citizens, have so far been detained as law enforcement in Haiti looks for answers after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise. [Associated Press / Evans Sanon, Danica Coto, and Joshua Goodman] -
Moise and his wife were shot overnight Wednesday at their residence in downtown Port-au-Prince, reportedly by assassins posing as agents in the United States DEA, which maintains an office in Haiti. Bocchit Edmond, Haiti's ambassador to the United States, said the attack was "was carried out by foreign mercenaries and professional killers." [Associated Press / Evans Sanon and Danica Coto] -
The suspects include a slew of retired Colombian soldiers. Haitian authorities have killed three suspects and are currently seeking eight more. [BBC] -
Some members of the public have assisted police in the search for the assassins, tracking down several who were hiding in bushes. One was carrying the president's personal checkbook and surveillance footage of the killing. [BBC] -
Democracy in the Americas' poorest nation has long been tenuous. But conditions have worsened since January 2020, when Moise began ruling by decree after allowing the terms of all those in parliament to expire without a new election. Many in Haiti disputed the president's right to rule, holding that his term expired this February. [CNN / Ryan C. Berg] - EU leaders and activists in Hungary are up in arms after an anti-LGBTQ law went into effect Thursday; the law challenges what President Viktor Orban has called the EU's "liberal consensus." [Associated Press / Justin Spike]
- Michael Avenatti, once talked about for a potential presidential run, was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for trying to extort Nike. [CNN / Erica Orden and Kara Scannell]
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