Cuba

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., laid down the gauntlet on the possibility of installing an ambassador to Cuba with President Obama set to announce the creation of embassies in Havana and Washington. (AP Photo)

Rubio vows to block any Obama nominee for Cuban ambassador

Susan Crabtree · July 1, 2015 2:31 pm

U.S. and Cuba to announce embassy openings

U.S. and Cuba to announce embassy openings

Susan Crabtree · June 30, 2015 11:35 pm

U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

National Security

State has a new pointman for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center

Pete Kasperowicz · June 30, 2015 3:09 pm

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. and Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., right, leave a hotel after a press conference in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, June 27, 2015. The U.S. Senate bipartisan delegation spoke to the media during their visit to Cuba as the two countries move toward reopening embassies and restoring long-strained diplomatic ties. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

National Security

Senators hope Congress will support Cuba opening

Charles Hoskinson · June 27, 2015 10:35 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, June 25, 2015, to release it's annual human rights reports. The Obama administration has once again identified Iran and Cuba as serial human rights abusers even as it accelerates attempts to improve relations with both countries. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Kerry stresses U.S. ‘humility’ as he cites Iran, Cuba as serial human rights abusers

Barbara Boland · June 25, 2015 6:56 pm

President Obama seems to lack confidence and, facing a world that resembles 1800 more than 1945, reaches out to Iran's mullahs and the Castro brothers while disrespecting many of America's friends. (AP Photo)Â

Facing a changing world balance, Obama makes odd choices

Michael Barone · June 24, 2015 10:25 pm

White House dismisses Jeb Bush dig against Obama’s plan to tour Cuba

White House dismisses Jeb Bush dig against Obama’s plan to tour Cuba

Susan Crabtree · June 16, 2015 6:39 pm

In this Aug. 26, 2004, file courtroom sketch, Ali Hamza al Bahlul appears before a military commission at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

Court ruling could help unravel other Guantanamo convictions

Tara Copp · June 12, 2015 9:45 pm

Anatoli Sienczenko, right, Anatoli Sienczenko Jnr, wear Black Sea Cossack uniforms, while attending a commemoration service for the Victims of Communism, in Washington D.C, June 12. 2015.Â (Graeme Jennings/WEX)

Democracies working with tyrants a ‘kick in the balls’

Emilie Padgett · June 12, 2015 9:29 pm

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during the 69th session of the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Fixing the U.N.

Kim Holmes · June 8, 2015 4:01 am

Lifting trade embargoes and re-establishing diplomatic relations will only tighten the Castro regime's grip on the Cuban people. (AP Photo)Â

Will Cuba see political change?

Vincent Amoroso · June 5, 2015 9:00 am

Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are the chief sponsors of a new bill, which comes in response to the Obama administration's decision to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba and remove them from a terrorism watch list.

Rubio, Cotton move to block financial transactions with Castro regime

Susan Ferrechio · June 3, 2015 5:55 pm