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Cuba left reeling after Category 3 hurricane ravages island and knocks out power grid
Cuba was left reeling Thursday after a fierce Category 3 hurricane ripped across the island and knocked out the country’s power grid.
Hurricane Rafael rapidly strengthens to Category 3 as it swirls towards Cuba and US Gulf states
The wild late-season storm — which intensified by 50 mph over just 24 hours — was less than 85 miles from the island and expected to make landfall at around...
Rafael strengthens into Cat. 2 hurricane as Cuba braces for damaging winds, life-threatening storm surge
Hurricane Rafael continues to intensify and is expected to be near major hurricane strength when the late-season tropical system makes landfall in Cuba on Wednesday.
Tropical Storm Oscar disintegrates en route to the Bahamas after killing 7 people in Cuba
Oscar's remnants were located some 75 miles east-southeast of Long Island in the Bahamas on Tuesday afternoon.
Hurricane Oscar brushes past Turks and Caicos and heads toward Cuba
Its center was located about 70 miles West of Grand Turk Island, and it was heading west and expected to reach eastern Cuba Sunday night.
Cuba restores some power after two blackouts in 24 hours plunged island into darkness
Parts of the capital Havana and some hospitals have had their electricity restored after the national grid collapsed twice in a span of 24 hours, according to state-affiliated media.
Communist Cuba shuts down schools, state-owned workplaces as huge blackout leaves millions in dark
A massive outage left millions of Cubans without power and prompted the government Friday to implement emergency measures to slash demand.
House Republican doubts Harris-Biden tweak to migrant parole program will lead to deportations: ’Optics-driven smokescreen’
The program was halted for about a month earlier this year after an internal review found that thousands of sponsors for the migrants were listing of fake social security numbers...
House pols demand Harris-Biden admin explain ‘lapses in vetting’ that allowed a communist Cuban official to migrate to the US
Republican lawmakers slammed the “lapses in vetting” that allowed Manuel Menendez Castellanos to fly into Miami via a US-run visa parole program for Cubans, in letters sent to Department of...
DHS restarts migrant flights from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela — weeks after halting program over 'fraud' concerns
Under the Harris-Biden administration, the program had brought up to 30,000 migrants from those four nations into the US every month under two-year work permits, so long as they passed...
What is 'sloth fever'? Everything you need to know about the virus affecting US and Europe
Florida reported 20 travel-related cases, including nine last week.
Fla. lawmakers demand Biden admin probe after Cuban Communist Party leader migrates to US
Republican members of Florida’s congressional delegation kicked off about their "profound disgust" following reports that the communist official, Manuel Menendez Castellanos, had flown into Miami last week via a US-run...
50 years after arriving from Cuba, I fear America is falling apart
A writer reflects on his half-century of living in America and watching the nation fray from all sides.
Biden admin halts migrant flights to US from multiple Latin American countries — including Venezuela
"Out of an abundance of caution, DHS has temporarily paused the issuance of advanced travel authorizations for new beneficiaries while it undertakes a review of supporter applications," a spokesperson told...
Plea deal for 9/11 mastermind resurrects specter of Guantanamo's closing — will it ever happen?
A plea deal with the alleged mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks has resurrected questions about the future of Guantánamo Bay – the military prison where the US has lodged suspected...
Biden-Harris open border sparks mass exodus from Cuba
Between 2022 and 2023, one-tenth of all Cubans — more than one million people — have fled their socialist paradise.
Coast Guard blocks batch of Cuban migrants headed for US — then ships them back home
The Coast Guard's latest high-seas operations included picking up 20 Cuban nationals trying to get to the United States, all of them later repatriated back home, the agency said this...
Cold War concerns resurface as nuclear-powered Russian submarine arrives in Cuba
If you thought the Cold War had returned last week, you were not daydreaming.
US Navy fast attack sub arrives in Cuba a day after Russia sends warships to Havana
The Russian submarine Kazan is equipped with Zircon hypersonic missiles — reportedly capable of carrying nuclear warheads at nine times the speed of sound.
Four Russian warships, including a nuclear sub, are sitting 200 miles off the coast of Florida
Four Russian warships, including a nuclear submarine, have reached Cuba, just 200 miles off the coast of Florida ahead of a planned military exercise in the Atlantic.