Thirty years ago, a Cuban fighter jet shot down two civilian planes operated by Florida-based exile group Brothers to the ...

The indictment says Castro "authorized the use of deadly force" against Brothers to the Rescue in January 1996, one month before the attack, after the group dropped leaflets on the Cuban mainland that ...

An Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Congo boarded a flight in Paris “in error” amid flight restrictions tied to the Ebola outbreak, U.S. Customs ...

The Department of Archives and History said a collection of 1960s Ku Klux Klan materials discovered at the Department of ...

An assault on Cuba needs excuses for hating it.  But given that any exchanges between the US and Cuba has been blocked out of ...

The Black Death: A Global History. By Thomas Asbridge. Random House; 544 pages; $38. Allen Lane; 560 pages; £40 The disease seems to have emerged in Asia. It soon reached Europe, ravaging Italy first.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday defended the Trump administration’s decision to slap new sanctions on Cuba, the ...

The claim that the founders meant America to be a Christian nation isn’t just bad history—it’s a declaration of war by the religious right. The day after President Donald Trump told a reporter that “I ...

When Demarius Cummings heard that his cousin, James Broadnax, was scheduled to be executed on April 30, 2026, he told lawyers his conscience couldn’t take it anymore. Both men were arrested for the ...

President Donald Trump has moved to withdraw his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of ...

Communities in World Cup host cities across the United States are organizing to ensure that the tournament lives up to its ...

A decade after Fidel Castro’s death, the fate of his communist revolution might be tied to an unlikely figure: his great-nephew, a colonel who goes by the nickname “El Cangrejo,” the Crab, and has a ...