Jury selection has begun in the trial of four men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. They are charged with conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haiti’s former leader, plus related charges. Christian Sanon was set to go on trial with the others, but his trial will be held separately for medical reasons. They face possible life sentences. They have all pleaded not guilty. The trial was previously set for last year, but a judge agreed to delay to Monday because of discovery challenges and the volume of evidence. Officials say Moïse was killed on July 7, 2021, when about two dozen foreign mercenaries, mostly from Colombia, attacked his home near Port-au-Prince.

A subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based company that has lost control of two critical ports on the Panama Canal says it is seeking $2 billion of compensation in damages from Panama over its “illegal” takeover of the ports. Panama Ports Company, a unit of Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison Holdings, said in a statement it is demanding the sum under international arbitration proceedings that it had already started. Panama’s government last week seized control of the Balboa and Cristobal ports on each end of the Panama Canal, after the country’s Supreme Court declared earlier that a concession allowing the Panama Ports Company to run the pair of ports was unconstitutional.

Court documents say immigration authorities arrested a reporter for a Spanish-language news outlet in Tennessee without a warrant. But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says in a court filing Friday that a valid arrest warrant was issued. Agents arrested Nashville Noticias reporter Estefany Rodriguez Florez during a traffic stop Wednesday. She is being detained by ICE’s enforcement and removal operations. Rodriguez has done stories critical of ICE. Her lawyers want her released. They say in court records that Rodriguez is a Colombian citizen who entered the U.S lawfully and has applied for political asylum and legal status through her husband, a U.S. citizen. A lawyer for ICE says her visa had expired.

Court documents show that a man accused of killing three women in Utah was already known to police in Iowa. Twenty-two-year-old Ivan Miller had been scheduled for an arraignment Friday in Iowa where he's accused of breaking into a cabin back in December. Miller had been released without bail on those charges in January after vowing to appear for the next court appearance. He's now jailed in Colorado and separately charged in Utah with the deaths of the three women. A public defender representing Miller in the Colorado case said Friday during a court hearing that his client will fight extradition to Utah and does not want to speak to media.

A Cleveland woman is jailed with bail set after $2 million after being accused of killing her two young daughters. Twenty-eight-year-old Aliyah Henderson said little on Friday during a brief court hearing. The remains of the children were recovered after a dog walker alerted police Monday. The girls had been buried in suitcases a short distance apart in a city field. They were 8 and 10 years old. A public defender declined to comment about the case.

A Pakistani business owner who tried to hire hit men to kill a U.S. politician has been convicted in a trial that showcased allegations of Iran-backed plotting on American soil. A jury delivered its verdict against Asif Merchant on Friday. Merchant acknowledged in a U.S. court that he sought to put an assassination in motion during the 2024 presidential campaign. He testified that he was acting on instructions from a contact in the Islamic Republic’s powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Merchant said the handler broached possible targets including then-candidate Donald Trump, then-President Joe Biden and Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador and presidential hopeful. The Iranian government has denied trying to kill U.S. officials.