

World Jan 11

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced he will designate Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels as a “foreign terrorist organization" as time runs down on the Trump administration.
By Matthew Lee, Associated Press
Politics Sep 23

At a White House ceremony recognizing nearly two dozen veterans of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, Trump said U.S. travelers will also be prohibited from staying at hotels and other properties owned by the Cuban…
By Darlene Superville, Associated Press
World Jan 28

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake has struck in the Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and eastern Cuba.
By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press
World Dec 17

The Cuban economy is stagnant, with tourism numbers flat and aid from Venezuela far below its historic peak as Cuba's oil-rich chief ally fights through its own long crisis.
By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press
Nov 07

By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press
General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding and are unenforceable, but they reflect world opinion and the vote has given Cuba an annual stage to demonstrate the isolation of the U.S. on the embargo.

By Peter Orsi, Andrea Rodriguez, Associated Press
As founder and director of the National Ballet of Cuba, Alonso personified the island's arts program under Fidel Castro's communist rule and she kept vise-like control over the troupe past her 90th birthday despite being nearly blind for decades.
Oct 11

By Adriana Gomez Licon, Gisela Salomon, Associated Press
Since the end of the Obama administration, the number of Cubans deported from the U.S. has increased more than tenfold to more than 800 in the past year.
Sep 26

By Associated Press
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the ban is in response to "gross human rights abuses" in Cuba and supporting Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
Sep 20

By Andrea Rodriguez, Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press
Increasingly, gas stations are running out with people still waiting in line because of a fuel shortage blamed on the Trump administration.
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