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Haitian pregnant woman in Florida fears deportation as TPS ends: “I’ve been in this country most of my life”

In Florida, a 29-year-old expectant mother is in hiding, concerned that she will be deported at any moment.    She is among the more than 300,000 Haitian nationals who held Temporary Protective Status until the Trump administration ended the decades-long program earlier this week after a prolonged legal fight, citing improved conditions in Haiti. Just…

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First beluga whales from Marineland arrive in Texas as international rescue effort gets underway

Two beluga whales settled into their new home — a 2-million-gallon salt water pool — in Texas on Tuesday following an international relocation mission from a shuttered Canadian theme park. The whales, named Bertie Bott and Frankie, traveled more than 1,500 miles from Niagara Falls, Ontario, to SeaWorld San Antonio. The same trip also brought…

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