Michelle Garcia

May 13, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Michelle Garcia |Michelle García

May 13, 2024, 2:37 PM UTCCrystal Dunn, the veteran defender on the U.S. women’s national soccer team heading into the Olympics, says it’s about time people are taking notice of women’s sports. “Finally,” she told NBC News on the eve of the WNBA draft. “What you see is just what happens when people pay attention.

May 1, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Michelle Garcia |Michelle García

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May 1, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Michelle Garcia |Michelle García |Berkeley Lovelace Jr. |Janelle Griffith

May 1, 2024, 8:11 PM UTCA proposal to ban formaldehyde in hair-straightening products that was scheduled to take place in April has not been released by the Food and Drug Administration, disregarding the agency’s own deadline. The proposal had come after wide-ranging studies found an association between some of the ingredients in hair-smoothing and hair-straightening products, which are used mostly by Black women, and cancer. It is unclear why the FDA has not released its proposed ban.

Apr 25, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Michelle Garcia |Michelle García

April 25, 2024, 2:54 PM UTCHaiti’s prime minister Ariel Henry officially resigned Thursday as a transitional government is sworn in and a new leader, Michael Patrick Boisvert, will become the country’s interim president. Boisvert, working with a nine-member transitional presidential council, will attempt to quell the gang-fueled turmoil that has taken over Port-au-Prince. Boisvert became Haiti’s minister of economy and finance in 2020, according to a government website.

Apr 12, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Michelle Garcia |Michelle García

A transitional council tasked with choosing Haiti’s next prime minister and Cabinet has been formally established, as gangs continue to tighten their grip on the troubled Caribbean country. The existence of the council, announced in a decree published Friday in a Haitian government outlet, was expected to trigger the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who promised to step down once the council was created. Henry did not immediately issue a comment following the publication of the decree.