A business group sent a letter to San Francisco officials threatening to stop paying taxes if the city did not address issues including the homeless problem.
During the CNN-New York Times’ Democrat debate on Tuesday night, former HUD Secretary Julián Castro claimed, without evidence, that President Donald Trump is “caging kids” at the United States-Mexico border while freeing terrorists of the Islamic State (ISIS).
Castro went after Biden hard during the third debate, asking if the former vice president had just forgotten what he said minutes before.
Julian Castro hit former Vice President Joe Biden for forgetting what he said his healthcare plan would do for Americans who lose their jobs and, thus, their health insurance.
Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro said during CNN’s 2020 Democrat presidential primary debate that the term “open borders” is a “right-wing talking point.”
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 2019 report on Monday, which found a steep decline in religious freedom in Cuba.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio praised Donald Trump for empowering the Cuban people by reversing some of former President Barack Obama’s diplomatic concessions with the Castro brothers.
In a foreign policy speech on Friday, President Donald Trump is set to announce changes in the United States’ relationship with Cuba, including increased travel restrictions and an effort to stop foreign aid going to “repressive members of the Cuban
Former Obama Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes is not happy with President Trump’s moves to reverse Obama’s “normalization” of Cuba, and has penned an article in the Atlantic in which he claims it “will fail” and calls it the “last illogical gasp of a strain of American politics with a 50-year track record of failure.”
President Donald Trump is expected to announce a restructuring of American policy towards Cuba in Florida on Friday.
Pro-EU campaigner Gina Miller has credited growing up listening to Fidel Castro’s musings on social justice for her political activism, and branded the Brexit vote an “emotional spasm”.
U.S. President Barack Obama is to send a more senior representative to the funeral of Communist dictator Fidel Castro than he did to the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes will attend the funeral of the
Cuban-Americans in Southern California were overjoyed at the news of Fidel Castro’s death on Friday, as the dictator who clung to power for decades and drove many to flee to the United States finally passed.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has praised late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro as a “hero for many”. In a statement issued by the Commission after Castro’s death, Mr Junker said the Communist dictator was “one of the historic figures of
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has praised Communist dictator Fidel Castro as a “legendary revolutionary” and “remarkable leader” after the former Cuban leader’s death Friday night.
Early Saturday morning, MSNBC captured the celebratory reaction to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s death. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo
On Tuesday, Christopher Kohrs, 38, a.k.a. the “Hot Cop of the Castro,” was charged with two felony counts of hit-and-run stemming from a North Beach hit-and-run crash early Sunday morning.
The non-government organization Amnesty International issued an urgent call for the international community to pressure the communist Cuban government to release Danilo Maldonado Machado, an artist known as “El Sexto” who has spent ten months in prison for painting the names “Fidel” and “Raúl” on two pigs.
Today the Obama administration raised the American flag above the U.S. embassy in Cuba. It is unclear what, if anything, the U.S. has won in exchange for normalizing relations with the Castro regime–one of the world’s most oppressive tyrannies. It is clearer what we have lost.
The Castro brothers haven’t survived in power without being canny politicians as well as ruthless tyrants. And they have President Barack Obama pegged: they know that his ego trumps all other priorities, and are willing to flatter him to win concessions. Raúl Castro used his country’s debut at the Summit of the Americas to deliver an hour-long rant against the U.S. role in the region–then excused Obama: “I apologize to him because President Obama had no responsibility for this.”
There isn’t much for the United States in any of President Obama’s lame-duck fire-sale deals with foreign dictators. One of the very, very few things Cuba was expected to do, in exchange for billions of dollars pumped into the Castro’s pockets by relaxed U.S. sanctions, was release some of the political prisoners rotting in its dungeons.
Peggy Noonan’s praise for the Obama administration’s new Cuba policy has one particularly ugly paragraph that demands its own response. (I posted an initial criticism of her overall column on Friday, and this one paragraph has bothered me for the better
Although some Cuban celebrities in Hollywood reacted with pleasure to President Barack Obama’s announcement that the United States will normalize relations with the communist Castro regime in Cuba, those who have opposed the regime simply remained silent. The publicist for
Just one day before President Obama announced sweeping changes that would allow potential American investment in Cuba, the Cuban government apparently had begun preparing itself by announcing new measures that would allow Cubans who work for foreign companies to keep only 8%
When Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan made “the case for Barack Obama” in 2008, she put his foreign policy at the top of her list: “He has within him the possibility to change the direction