Macollvie Neel, editor of the Haitian Times, was ready to start her workday from home on Monday when her doorbell rang. What she thought might be a delivery turned out to be more than a half-dozen police officers.

They charged Donald J. Trump and JD Vance, who spread baseless rumors that Haitians in an Ohio city were eating pets, with imperiling their community for political gain.

Bomb threats, school evacuations impact Springfield, Ohio, ever since JD Vance and Donald Trump spread pet-eating rumors about Haitian immigrants.