MIAMI — President Donald Trump said Cuba is “in its last moments of life,” revealed that he’s personally involved in negotiations to enact change on the island and defended his administration’s close partnership with Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez to a room of Latin American and Caribbean leaders on Saturday.

“Cuba’s at the ...Read more

BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis — Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali sat behind the table inside a community center here, touting what he described as his nation’s success and an “extraordinary phase in our national development.”

Fourteen new hotels are being built and nearing completion, with another six proposed. A national stadium...Read more

As the war in Iran sends global fuel prices soaring, the U.S. Department of Justice has released a legal opinion claiming that President Donald Trump has the authority to override California laws and regulations that have blocked a controversial offshore oil operation by invoking the Defense Production Act.

The 22-page opinion, published this ...Read more

In recent days, tensions over the U.S. war in Iran have steadily mounted.

Polls have shown the campaign is widely unpopular. An entire flank of President Donald Trump's MAGA base has criticized it as a clear departure from the "America First" mantra Trump has long espoused. Leaders within the Trump administration have pushed against claims it ...Read more

At dawn on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, as rockets and gunmen poured into Israel from Gaza, Hamas military chief Mohammad Deif declared the Jewish state finished: “To our brothers in the Islamic resistance in Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Iraq and Syria, the day has come.”

The day did come, but not the one Deif imagined.

He’s dead, along with a ...Read more

MIAMI — Four men accused of hatching a plot in South Florida that led to the gruesome death of Haiti’s president will finally face trial on Monday, almost five years after Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his bedroom, plunging his nation into gang-ridden chaos.

A fifth defendant charged with them won’t be present at the trial in Miami ...Read more

ETZATLÁN, Mexico — There are two sides to the town on Jalisco's tequila trail.

One is the charming pueblo in foothills lined with neat rows of agave cactus. In the central plaza you'll see swaths of handwoven fabric draped like canopies over the cobbled streets — splashes of pink, blue, yellow and green offering welcome shade from the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s oldest wine school says a competitor is attempting to erase its existence from the internet through a “cyberbullying” campaign and trademark infringement, according to a federal lawsuit.

In the suit, PhillyWine LLC alleges that Keith Wallace and Alana Zerbe, the husband-and-wife duo behind the Wine School ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The masked protesters screaming at a federal agent outside his home was the type of scene Trump administration officials had long feared.

Cynthia Raygoza, Ashleigh Brown and Sandra Samane followed a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer from the downtown L.A. Metropolitan Detention Center to his Baldwin Park residence...Read more

DETROIT — Four people were killed and 12 others injured when tornadoes ripped through southwest Michigan Friday afternoon, according to the sheriffs in Branch and Cass counties.

Three people were killed when a tornado hit the area around Union Lake west of Union City, the Branch County Sheriff’s Office said Friday night.

Twelve people were...Read more

DETROIT — Three people were killed and 12 others injured when a tornado ripped through the Union City area of Michigan on Friday afternoon, WOOD-TV reported.

Of the 12 injured, three required hospitalization, according to the Branch County Sheriff’s Office. The names of the dead were not released.

“Our thoughts are with those who have ...Read more