Dominican Republic

U.S. authorities seized a $13 million luxury plane used by Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Monday.

An illegal alien, wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic, has been found living in the sanctuary state of Massachusetts.

Philadelphia’s population has been shrinking for years, but one segment has been soaring, with numbers showing that immigrants are growing.

An illegal alien accused of trafficking fentanyl in Massachusetts is also wanted for murder in his native Dominican Republic.

The Dominican Republic’s Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez said on Wednesday that his country will continue to deport illegal Haitian migrants, rejecting a United Nations request that urged the country to stop “forced deportations” of Haitian citizens.

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resurfaced in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, having disappeared from public view after a meeting in Kenya.

Haiti’s neighbors scrambled to increase patrols, build border fences, and recall their diplomatic missions as violence escalated on Monday.

An illegal alien, accused of murder, is among the roughly 2.2 million illegal aliens released into the United States under the watch of President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

A 42-year-old woman aboard Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas was rescued after spending more than 45 minutes in the water.

A Dominican professional basketball player named Óscar Cabrera Adames has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 28, according to reports.

A child from New York City was fatally shot when he and his family arrived in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday for spring break.

The Dominican Republic is building a 13-foot-high border wall in the hopes of ending waves of illegal immigration from Haiti — set to be the second-longest border wall in the Americas. 

Dominican Republic Environment Minister Orlando Jorge Mera was shot and killed in his government office on Monday by a man who knew Mera since childhood, the local Listín Diario newspaper reported Tuesday.

Citing illegal immigration and drugs and weapons smuggling, the Dominican Republic is building a wall on its border with Haiti.

A mafia fugitive was arrested in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, after Italian police discovered his YouTube cooking show.

Two women who worked together at a bar in Connecticut recently found out they are actually biological sisters.

The shooter at a New York City, New York, Christmas concert was an immigrant to the United States from the Dominican Republic who avoided deportation despite an extensive criminal record, officials confirm.

Border Patrol agents in Puerto Rico and local police intercepts a large load of cocaine and arrested four illegal aliens from the Dominican Republic. The failed smuggling attempt resulted in the seizure of nearly $15 million worth of cocaine.

The global coronavirus pandemic originating in China is leading conservative Latin American leaders to question key tenets of the region’s foreign policy.

Health officials in the Dominican Republic on Sunday reported the first confirmed case of the new coronavirus in the tourist-rich Caribbean, while British cruise ship passengers who had been trapped at sea due to virus fears were finally set to come home.

Dominican armed forces hurled tear gas canisters at protesters congregated before Santo Domingo’s Central Electoral Board (JCE) on Tuesday, alarming a largely peaceful crowd united to demand free and fair elections after the JCE abruptly canceled the results of this weekend’s national polls.

Three illegal aliens are among six accused drug dealers who were freed from jail by New York City officials after their arrests for allegedly operating a heroin-fentanyl packaging ring out of a Bronx apartment. 

White Sox reliever Kelvin Herrera stands accused of striking a man at a cockfight in the Dominican Republic.

Six suspects were taken into custody over the weekend after an American teacher was found dead inside her home in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, last week.

An American teacher was found strangled to death inside her apartment in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Tuesday. 

A man from the Dominican Republic has been arrested for allegedly bludgeoning to death four homeless men in New York City’s Chinatown neighborhood last week.

ROME (AP) – Italy’s president has paid homage to two officers killed in the line of duty in the northern city of Trieste.

Former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz has reportedly hired a ex-Boston police chief to investigate the shooting that hospitalized the player.

After the alleged assault of a Delaware woman, the Majestic Elegance Punta Cana resort is temporarily closing due to “low occupancy.”

A Delaware woman is suing a Dominican Republic resort for $3 million after she claims she was beaten at one of the resorts while she stayed there with her husband.

The U.S. State Department confirmed this week that a man from Forsyth, Georgia, died while vacationing in the Dominican Republic.

Rocker Rick Springfield has moved his music festival to Mexico as the number of deaths of American tourist continues to rise in the Dominican Republic.

Passengers with booked flights on Delta Air Lines are being allowed to rebook or cancel their travel plans to the Dominican Republic following reports of sickness and death in the country.

A father of two from Denver who was forced to disembark his flight leaving the Dominican Republic when he became ill on Sunday has died, according to family members.

A teenage girl from Argentina slipped into a coma on her trip to the Dominican Republic, with doctors saying she may have a life-threatening diabetic condition.

On Tuesday, a Louisiana honeymooner became the tenth American to die in the last year after visiting the Dominican Republic.