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More than 330,000 Haitians have lived in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status that ended Aug. 5. Trump administration officials are now urging them to leave.

Migration experts said Haitians who lost TPS also lost work authorization, forcing them to either remain in the United States illegally while working under the table, or to seek a new life elsewhere. In return for permission to live and work in the United States, TPS-holders were required to give the federal government their addresses and other personal information that could now be used to track them down.

Some Haitians are now seeking refuge in Canada. But migrant-rights groups fear Haitians fleeing to the northern border are unaware they may be detained by ICE and then deported.

“The stakes are so high at the border and a lot of people are not very well informed," said Jenn McIntyre of the nonprofit Canada-U.S. Border Rights Clinic.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/08/15/haitians-losing-tps-canada-immigration/91242415007/

Hi, Nikol from USA TODAY's audience team here. In her story, our reporter Zulekha Nathoo explains why it's important to have a safe environment for disagreements in the workplace: it can lead to better innovations.

A culture in which people feel safe enough to speak up and admit mistakes without fear of punishment, known as psychological safety, is becoming a competitive advantage.

Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, a pioneer of research on psychological safety, says the need for dissent and even friction has never been greater because AI is "introducing so much change and novelty and uncertainty." The only way to forge through it, she says, is "through iteration, through a constant experiment, small, smart experiments."

Experimentation, however, requires a climate many organizations lack: feeling like you can ask questions or challenge ideas without those actions coming back to haunt you.

Read more in Zulekha's story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2026/07/30/best-workplace-advantage-in-ai-age/90919352007/

From USA TODAY:

Latin America has seen a broad political shift to the right since President Donald Trump began his second term in January 2025.

Razor-thin elections in Colombia and Peru are redrawing Latin America's political map, reversing the "pink tide" of left-leaning governments that defined the region in the early 2020s. The term “pink” implies a softer form of communism than “red."

The political shift is primarily driven by disappointment with leftist governments that led to more organized crime and economic inflation. Leaders are now drawing voters to the right with promises of security and economic reform.

Both elections were finalized in late June, and each right-wing candidate − Abelardo de la Espriella of Colombia and Keiko Fujimori of Peru − won by extremely narrow margins.

Fujimori, daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, is set to be inaugurated July 28, and Trump is sending a presidential delegation to attend the ceremony. De la Espriella will be inaugurated Aug. 7.

The Trump administration didn't directly officially support Fujimori during her campaign, but it did endorse these victorious right-wing candidates:

- De la Espriella of Colombia in June 2026.

- José Antonio Kast of Chile in December 2025.

- Daniel Noboa, incumbent president of Ecuador, who was reelected in April 2025.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2026/07/28/peru-colombia-presidential-elections-right-wing-shift-trump/90643377007/