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More than 4,400 migrants have made their way by boat to the U.S. since August, officials say.

Cubans signed with Major League Baseball organizations and other foreign clubs will for the first time join domestic stars on the national team that will play in the World Baseball Classic.

Mark Cuban moved to Dallas in his 20s with just $60 in his pocket, so he had to try every money-saving hack he could think of to get by.

Another delegation from the United States will travel to Cuba this month to discuss law enforcement issues

Montes was highly regarded for her expertise on Cuba. But under the radar, she shared classified information with the Cuban government, including the identities of U.S. spies.

After pleading guilty to spying for Cuba in 2002, a former high-ranking U.S. official was released from prison Friday. Ana Belen Montes started spying for Havana in the 1980s.

Migrants entering the U.S. illegally are devastated to learn they may be sent back to Mexico under expanded limits on the pursuit of asylum.

18 people, including women and children, were rescued from a makeshift boat by the Scarlet Lady cruise ship between Key West and Cuba.

More than 500 Cuban immigrants have come ashore in the Florida Keys since the weekend, the latest in a large and increasing number who are fleeing the communist island.

The American embassy in Havana, Cuba, has reopened its visa and consular services Wednesday for the first time since a series of health incidents dubbed the "Havana Syndrome."

The Embassy confirmed this week it will begin processing immigrant visas, with a priority placed on permits to reunite Cubans with family in the U.S.

The U.S. Embassy confirmed this week it will begin processing immigrant visas, with a priority placed on permits to reunite Cubans with family in the U.S., and others like the diversity visa lottery.

The United States Embassy in Cuba is reopening visa and consular services Wednesday

The United States Embassy in Cuba is reopening visa and consular services Wednesday.

The Cuban government has finally changed its rules to allow women to compete in boxing tournaments.

In the last 24 hours, the U.S. Border Patrol Miami Sector and its partners encountered 88 Haitian migrants in five landings across the Florida Keys.

On Bill Maher's "Club Random" podcast, Mark Cuban said everyone over 30 should be reading every day.

Starting New Year’s Day, you can still wear bikinis on the beaches of Miami Beach, but forget about showing any butts — cigarette butts, that is.

MLB stars such as José Abreu, Yordan Alvarez, Randy Arozarena, Yoán Moncada and Luis Robert can now decide to play for Cuba in the WBC in March.

The United States will permit Major League Baseball players from Cuba to represent their home country in the World Baseball Classic next year.

Billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban recently spoke with high school students about the best way for young people to start businesses. Here's his advice.

Scarcity and economic turmoil are nothing new to Cuba, but soaring inflation and deepening shortages have made holiday shopping even more difficult for Cubans this year.

As Belkis Fajardo, 69, walks through the dense streets of downtown Havana with a small bag of lettuce and onions in hand, she wonders how she’ll feed her family over the holidays. Scarcity and economic turmoil are nothing new to Cuba, but Fajardo is among many Cubans to note that this year is different thanks to soaring inflation and deepening shortages. “We’ll see what we can scrap together to cook for the end of the year,” Fajardo said.

A half dozen women have gone to the Bahamian Embassy hoping to deliver a list of more than 100 Cubans who haven’t been heard from since leaving the island this year

Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, have offered Cuban artists a lifeline during the pandemic, which wreaked havoc on the island country's tourism industry and, subsequently, its art sales.

The Department of Homeland Security inadvertently tipped off the Cuban government this month that immigrants the agency sought to deport to the country had asked the U.S. for protection from persecution or torture.

Billionaire Mark Cuban says he followed four rules to get rich, and that anyone can use the same blueprint to make their own money and become a millionaire.

An incident involving the Cuban coast guard in plain sight of the U.S. embassy in Havana had people scratching their heads on Monday

An incident involving the Cuban coast guard in plain sight of the U.S. embassy in Havana had people scratching their heads on Monday.

Onlookers scratched their heads at a peculiar scene just off the coast of Havana on Monday — Cuba's coast guard intercepted nearly a dozen passengers from a scrappy blue handmade raft with an American flag painted along the bow. Handmade rafts are hardly out of the ordinary in Cuba, where innumerable vessels set off in attempts to reach Florida's shores. Growing waves of migrants have abandoned the Caribbean island in the past year by land, air and sea, an exodus fueled by a complex mix of deepening and compounding crises in Cuba.

A delegation of at least three U.S. lawmakers has visited Havana and met with Cuba’s government this week

Cuban officials say women boxers will be able to compete officially after decades of restrictions, though they didn't yet confirm if that would be taken to a professional level like Cuban male boxers.

Cuban officials have announced that women boxers will be able to compete officially after decades of restrictions.

Cuba enacted a new penal code this week that activists and human rights organizations worry could further limit free expression and snuff out protests at a time of deepening discontent on the island

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Cuban counterpart pledged mutual support over their fellow communist states’ “core interests” Friday at a meeting further hailing a return to face-to-face diplomacy by Beijing. In comments to Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, Xi said China hoped to “strengthen coordination and cooperation in international and regional affairs” with Cuba. The two will “go hand in hand down the road of building socialism with each's own characteristics," Xi was quoted as saying in a Chinese government news release.

Yoel Garcia made about $12 a month as a teacher in Cuba and could barely fill his fridge. Now, he's living his "American dream."

Yoel Diaz made about $12 a month as a teacher in Cuba and could barely fill his fridge. Now, he's living his "American dream."

Yoel Diaz made about $12 a month as a teacher in Cuba and could barely fill his fridge. Now, he's living his "American dream."

Grammy-winning Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés, who helped found the 'nueva trova' movement and wrote 'Yolanda,' dies at 79

Grammy-winning Cuban balladeer Pablo Milanés has died in Spain at age 79.

A Cuban immigrant celebrates his first American paycheck living in the United States, detailing the milestone and how it has allotted him with 'opportunity'

Cuba says it will receive deportation flights from the United States that had been stalled in the pandemic — and said it was open to continuing dialogue with Washington.

U.S. authorities stopped migrants more than 230,000 times on the Mexican border in October, the third-highest month of Joe Biden’s presidency.

U.S. and Cuban officials plan to meet in Havana on Tuesday to discuss migration policy.

As a boy, Mark Cuban sold boxes of garbage bags door-to-door. This 14-second sales pitch he developed for his neighbors was his key to success, he says.

Like the rest of the Caribbean, Cuba is suffering from longer droughts, warmer waters, more intense storms, and higher sea levels because of climate change

Like the rest of the Caribbean, Cuba is suffering from longer droughts, warmer waters, more intense storms, and higher sea levels because of climate change.

Cuban and State Department officials have met in Havana to discuss the expansion of consular and visa services on the island

After raising controversy by hiring hundreds of Cuban doctors, Mexico’s president appeared ready Friday to anger critics again by announcing plans to buy crushed rock ballast for a tourist train project from Cuba. A lot of people in Mexico already have doubts about President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Maya Train project. There are questions about its environmental impact and uncertain demand for the train service.

Billionaire Mark Cuban says people should pay off their credit card debt and then burn them. "If you use credit cards, you don’t want to be rich,” he adds.

The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the American economic embargo of Cuba for the 30th year, with the Biden administration continuing former President Donald Trump’s opposition and refusing to return to the Obama administration’s 2016 abstention

A boat off northern Cuba traveling toward the United States sank Saturday after a collision with a Cuban coast guard ship, and at least five people died, Cuban officials said Saturday.

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Cuba became the the ninth country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage in recent years.

Gay couples have begun to get married in Cuba under the country’s new Family Code

Gay couples have begun to get married in Cuba under the country’s new Family Code.

The origin of the sandwich has been a long-standing debate between Tampa and Miami, which both claim ownership. The truth is neither came up with it.

Soccer coaches across Cuba are training hundreds of players as part of a new program to elevate the sport’s profile and status in a country that last qualified for the World Cup in 1938.

Border Patrol agents in the Miami sector apprehended two illegal immigrants after they made landfall in the Florida Keys with windsurf boards.

U.S. weighs aid to Cuba following hurricane and request from Havana

"We can only pray our crews find them so their families and loved ones can rest," the Coast Guard said.

Lights started to flicker on in the capital, Havana, but much of the city and other parts of western Cuba remained without power Wednesday.

Cuban officials said they had begun to restore some power Wednesday after Hurricane Ian knocked out electricity to the entire island.

Power was initially knocked out to about 1 million people in Cuba's western provinces, but later the entire grid collapsed.

Hurricane Ian is on track to hit Florida just shy of a Category 5 storm on Wednesday.

Cuba remains in the dark after Hurricane Ian knocked out the power grid and devastated some of the country’s most important tobacco farms when it hit the island’s western tip as a major storm

Cuban officials say they've begun to restore some power after Hurricane Ian knocked out electricity to the entire island.

Ian made landfall in Cuba's Pinar del Rio province, where officials set up 55 shelters, evacuated 50,000 people, and took steps to protect crops in the nation's main tobacco-growing region.

Hurricane has Ian knocked out power across all of Cuba and devastated some of the country’s most important tobacco farms when it slammed into the island’s western tip as a major hurricane

Hurricane Ian has knocked out power across all of Cuba and devastated some of the country’s most important tobacco farms when it slammed into the island’s western tip as a major hurricane.

Hurricane Ian is on track to hit Florida as a major hurricane this week.

A Colombian guerrilla group says it has freed six captive members of the security forces in a goodwill gesture ahead of planned peace talks with the government of new President Gustavo Petro.

A second firefighter has died in Cuba, where crews have controlled a massive blaze that began last week at a key oil storage facility amid a deepening energy crisis.

Cuba authorities say a deadly fire that has consumed at least half of a large oil storage facility in western Cuba and threatens to bring more power failures to the island's already fragile electric system has been largely controlled after nearly five days.

Flames have engulfed a fourth tank at an oil storage facility in western Cuba as the raging fire consumes critical fuel supplies on an island facing a growing energy crisis.

A deadly fire that began at a large oil storage facility in western Cuba has spread, threatening to plunge the island into a deeper energy crisis as it forced officials to shut down a key thermoelectric plant.

Pope Francis is offering support to firefighters and search crews in Cuba following explosions at a big oil tank farm in the western province of Matanzas.

Cuban firefighters have been joined by special teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela as they battle for a second day to control a fire blazing at a big oil tank farm.

The young people come and go on their electric motorcycles at this highway outside Cuba’s capital where they perform stunts and talk about their two-wheelers, which would be largely silent if it weren’t for the music blasting from speakers.

A year ago, thousands of people filled Cuba’s streets and public squares in the country’s largest outpouring of protest in decades.

Two members of a loose-knit group of dissident artists have been sentenced to prison in Cuba.

The first storm of the new hurricane season hit Cuba in mid-June and collapsed or damaged dozens of homes in the capital — tearing off pieces of roof, balconies and facades.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has confirmed that he will not attend the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week, dealing a blow to the event hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden.

The U.S. Transportation Department is making it easier for Americans to travel to Cuba, lifting flight restrictions that were established during the Trump administration.

Some of the more than 840 Haitians who tried to reach the United States in a boat but ended up in Cuba say Thursday that they fled violence in their country and were charged thousands of dollars by smugglers who ushered them onto a dilapidated boat and later abandoned them at sea.

The Biden administration's move to ease some sanctions on Cuba are being met with some confusion and caution by people on the island.

The Summit of the Americas is a little more than two weeks away in Los Angeles, and there's still no clear answer on which countries are going.

The United States might invite a Cuban representative to the Summit of the Americas next month, according to a U.S. official.

The Biden administration says it will expand flights to Cuba and lift Trump-era restrictions on remittances that immigrants can send to people on the island.

More bodies have been pulled from the ruins of a luxury hotel in Cuba’s capital, bringing the official death toll from a powerful explosion at the iconic building to 40.

The death toll of a powerful explosion at a luxury hotel in Cuba’s capital has increased to 31 as search crews with dogs hunt through the rubble of the iconic, 19th century building looking for people still missing.

Relatives of the missing in Cuba’s capital are desperately searching for victims of an explosion at one of Havana's most luxurious hotels that killed at least 27 people.

Ricardo Alarcón, who was for years the head of Cuba’s parliament and one of the country’s most prominent diplomats, has died in Havana.

The United States and Cuba have held their highest-level diplomatic talks in four years after a severe disruption in ties during the Trump administration.

Every year in Cuba, millions of crabs emerge from the forest at the beginning of the spring rains and head for the waters of the Bay of Pigs, crossing streets and highways on a perilous journey to mate and reproduce there.

Former Dallas Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson is suing the Mavericks, alleging that team owner Mark Cuban fired him in retaliation for reporting sexual misconduct by a team executive.

Unaccompanied child migrants trying to enter the United States will no longer be denied a chance to seek asylum under new guidance announced by U.S. health authorities.

Ten Cuban migrants in a sinking vessel were rescued off the Florida coast.

Cuban courts have wrapped up the hearing phase of six mass trials for people accused of involvement in the largest and most unruly protests on the island in decades.

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