Amid stepped-up surveillance flights, a visit of the C.I.A. director and an energy embargo, the White House is trying to increase pressure on Cuba.Raúl Castro is the former president of Cuba and younger brother of Fidel Castro.
Mr. Castro, Cuba’s former president, could soon face charges in the 1996 killings of four volunteer airmen who were members of a humanitarian group that searched for migrants at sea.Former President Raúl Castro of Cuba attending a May Day parade in Havana this month.
The United States has choked off Cuba’s fuel supply, plunging the already impoverished island into an acute energy crisis.People playing dominoes by flashlight as a protest fire burns in the background in Havana on Thursday.
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State officials had asked the justices to step in to allow the state to use a congressional map in the midterms that was drawn by Democrats and recently approved by voters.The Supreme Court’s ruling blocking the map wipes out four newly drawn Democratic-leaning House districts in Virginia.
Republican state leaders tried to expel Democratic lawmakers during their fight over redistricting last year. The court said it was not necessary.The top Democrat in the Texas House, Gene Wu, was among the lawmakers Gov. Greg Abbott sought to expel last year.
The president has shifted the foundations of American policy toward China, throwing aside the adversarial approach of recent years.President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China arriving for the state banquet in Beijing on Thursday.
Some of America’s most powerful C.E.O.s accompanied President Trump to Beijing during his summit with President Xi Jinping of China. Our reporter Ana Swanson explains what they were hoping to gain from the trip.
Having fought the Trump administration to a draw, China’s Xi Jinping is proposing “constructive strategic stability,” aimed at drawing lines he thinks the U.S. should not cross.President Xi Jinping of China welcomed President Trump in Beijing on Thursday.
On Threads and other sites, liberal-minded Chinese accounts were mocking the proceedings and offering a rare window into opinions on Xi Jinping and his leadership style.President Trump was cheered by children upon his arrival in Beijing on Thursday
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi is accused of leading attacks in Europe and being part of a retaliation campaign by Iran. Prosecutors say he is a leader of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia with ties to Iran.
Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch spoke after prosecutors said they had arrested a man planning to attack a Manhattan synagogue.Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch spoke on Friday at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan, hours after federal authorities said they disrupted a plot against a synagogue.
Top aides have drafted battle plans as peace negotiations have stalled.President Trump has not yet decided whether to resume military strikes on Iran, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told lawmakers that the Pentagon had “a plan to escalate if necessary.”
For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.The necropolis of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, where a nonroyal mummy was found with some lines on papyrus from Book 2 of Homer’s “Iliad.”
Critics denounced the highly unusual plan, which has yet to be finalized or approved, as a vast political slush fund financed by taxpayers.President Trump controls both the I.R.S., the agency he sued, and the Justice Department, which would typically represent the I.R.S. against legal claims.
The F.B.I. director continues to come under scrutiny for mixing government business with dates, vacation and leisure time.The memorial above the sunken battleship U.S.S. Arizona in Hawaii in 2016. Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, was accompanied by Navy SEALs on a “V.I.P. Snorkel” over the site that
Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted the sentence of Ms. Peters, a former county clerk serving a nine-year sentence for her role in a plot to examine voting machines after the 2020 election.Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2024 after bei
This was the third time Harvey Weinstein was on trial accused of raping an aspiring actress at a hotel in Manhattan in 2013.Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer, has faced three sex crimes trials in Manhattan.
The comedy star, who is the subject of a new documentary, has faced a series of unimaginable losses. Yet he says there are always laughs to remember.Grieving gives you “muscles to survive,” Martin Short said.
Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the target of an Israeli strike in Gaza City, took over the group’s military wing in Gaza last year. Israeli officials said he was also an architect of the Oct. 7 attack.
Texas Children’s Hospital was under investigation for billing practices on gender-transition treatments. The settlement was expected to end that inquiry.Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston is one of the largest children’s hospitals in the country.
A singer and actress, she drew wide attention for the fatal 1976 shooting of Spider Sabich. She was convicted of negligent homicide.
How Wi-Fi-connecting, app-based tech led to a backlash in the name of simplicity.
Authoritarians go after data. The president has already started.
