Protesters took to the streets of Cuba on Sunday in a rare outburst of social unrest as a fresh wave of blackouts exacerbated tensions on the cash-strapped island. Social media posts showed crowds of people in Santiago de Cuba, the second-largest city on the eastern part of the island, chanting “corriente y comida” — power … Read more
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by Republican officials in Texas that sought to shut down a federal program that has allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants to fly to U.S. airports, preserving for now a policy central to the Biden administration’s immigration agenda. The dispute centered on a Biden administration program that … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is closing in on a Senate deal on border security and Ukraine funding as the White House tries to resolve one of the last major sticking points: whether to preserve the president’s authority to allow migrants into the U.S. for special cases during emergencies or global unrest. Republicans deride … Read more
Updated Dec. 5, 2023 7:01 pm ET The Cuban espionage case involving former U.S. Ambassador Victor Manuel Rocha might turn out to be the most egregious in terms of how long it is said to have gone on, but it is far from being the first. In what Attorney General Merrick Garland called one of the … Read more
Washington — A former top U.S. diplomat who most recently served as America’s ambassador to Bolivia was arrested Friday and charged with acting as a foreign agent of Cuba, according to court documents. Beginning as early as 1981 and continuing through to the present day, Victor Manuel Rocha — a naturalized U.S. citizen born in … Read more