
The White House has confirmed that President Barack Obama may visit Cuba in 2016–and says it is looking for ways to let the Cuban “revolution” interpret human rights norms in ways that allow it to retain power.
by Joel B. Pollak3 Jan 2016, 12:16 AM PST0

The Obama administration’s effort to normalize relations with Cuba is generating a surge in immigration from the island nation to the U.S.
by Caroline May7 Oct 2015, 2:34 PM PST0

With President Obama’s legitimization of Cuba making headlines, turn-of-the-century writings by Donald Trump suggest he would have striven to extradite and imprison Cuba’s leaders, not line their pockets, if president.
by Frances Martel19 Aug 2015, 10:42 AM PST0

Half of Britain’s youth say they are neither gay nor straight, but somewhere in between, a new poll has found. And while nearly a third of people thought that sexuality was binary, gay or straight, nearly two in three people
by Donna Rachel Edmunds18 Aug 2015, 6:51 AM PST0

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration doesn’t plan to invite Cuban dissidents to Secretary of State John Kerry’s historic flag-raising at the U.S. Embassy in Havana on Friday, vividly illustrating how U.S. policy is shifting focus from the island’s opposition to its single-party government. Instead, Kerry intends to meet more quietly with prominent activists later in the day, officials said.
by AP12 Aug 2015, 9:45 AM PST0