A U.S. jury has found a once powerful Haitian gang leader guilty of organizing the kidnapping of 16 U.S. citizens in 2021 and holding them hostage for more than two months.

Sunday was Haitian Flag Day. And in Boston, home to a large and growing Haitian population, that meant a good time.

Pope Leo XIV's genealogy can be traced back to Haiti, where his grandfather, Joseph Norval Martinez. His census records tell ...