In another example of a ruthless campaign to crush dissent, Cuban authorities sentenced the wife of a Cuban political ...

Mausser found the Democratic Socialists of America and became involved in her local New York City chapter, where she met then ...

The Cuban government released dissident leader José Daniel Ferrer from prison Monday and sent him with his family into exile ...

Cuba’s 94-year-old ruler Raúl Castro, who is officially retired, reappeared this week to preside over a rare national defense ...

A movement born in churches to help vulnerable immigrants has become a constitutional battleground in Chicago and Portland, ...

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Today in History for Oct. 19: In 1216, King John of England died after consuming what was described as an excessive number of peaches and too much beer. In 1656, Massachusetts passed a law preventing ...

(CNN) — The US Supreme Court agreed to wade into Cold War history Friday by granting an appeal from Exxon over the Cuban government’s confiscation of an oil refinery and other property Fidel Castro’s ...

Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member who was convicted in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper, has died in Cuba, where she had fled to after escaping from prison, Cuban officials ...