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The commander for Guantanamo Bay prison has signed a disputed order that requires officials to review communications between lawyers and prisoners charged with organizing the Sept. 11 attacks, a spokeswoman told The Associated Press.

Cuban immigration officials eventually send illegal Haiti migrants back to their home country.

Pope Benedict XVI ushered in Christmas for the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics on Saturday, urging humanity to see through the superficial glitter and commercialism of the season and rediscover the real significance of the humble birth of Jesus.

Don’t miss out on a sunny vacation in the Caribbean because you’re afraid it’s too dangerous; find out which islands are the safest and which are the most dangerous.

Bank of Nova Scotia has applied to re-establish a presence in Cuba and a report says rival Royal Bank of Canada is considering a similar move in the wake of Cuban reforms and a thawing of the country's icy relationship with the United States.

Cubans will also be able to avail themselves of debit cards, checks, and bank transfers.

Attorneys for Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning on Monday challenged evidence linking him to the biggest classified document leak in U.S. history, arguing others had access to the same files and that it cannot be proven Manning sent anything to WikiLeaks from his computer.

After Congressional negotiators signed off Thursday night on a $1 trillion omnibus spending bill that would avert a shutdown and fund the federal government through September, lawmakers' focus returned to the ongoing negotiations over the extension of the payroll tax cut.

U.S. lawmakers Thursday night reached a tentative deal to fund an array of government agencies through Sept. 30 and avert shutting down many of Washington's operations starting this weekend.

Congress Thursday approved a defense bill requiring the military to handle suspected foreign militants allied with al-Qaida, sending it to President Barack Obama for his expected signature.

Introducing: The world's tiniest frogs; amphibians that easily fit on a penny.

Senate Republicans Monday blocked Mari Carmen Aponte, President Obama's choice to be ambassador to El Salvador, stating there were unresolved questions about whether Cuban intelligence officials tried to recruit her as a spy in the 1990s.

Pope Benedict XVI will visit Communist Cuba this spring, a senior Roman Catholic Church official said Thursday.

Whether it’s an indoor herb garden or an entire grassed rooftop, there’s no doubt gardens are going urban.

Florida senator Marco Rubio has sealed the deal for a book, which is scheduled for publication next fall.

Just a month shy of her first anniversary as Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff's tenure has been marred by a series of corruption scandals involving cabinet ministers. Rousseff has lost minister after minister to corruption scandals since last June, almost at the rate of one a month. The latest to lose his office is Labor Minister Carlos Lupi. The successive resignations point directly to the corruption that is deeply embedded in the public administration system in Brazil.

Former pizza magnate Herman Cain's bid for the White House was an unconventional long shot from the start, but behind the colorful Cain Train a dysfunctional team has always been on the verge of running off the tracks.

An upcoming cycle of stormy solar activity risks causing damage to electrical transformers and threatening vulnerable energy infrastructure around the globe, a report by an insurance group says.

The U.S. and Canada were excluded from the two-day summit in Caracas.

Herman Cain should do himself and the Republican Party a favor and drop out of the presidential race -- but not for the reasons you think.

Between 1990 and 2010, the rate of poverty rate on the continent plunged from 48.4 percent to 31.4 percent; while the rate of indigence (extreme poverty) dropped from 22.6 percent to 12.3 percent.