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The recent shift in American-Cuban relations is part of a major overhaul of U.S. policy toward the Caribbean’s largest island nation.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio spoke Wednesday after to the announcement by the Obama administration that the U.S. will normalize relations with Cuba.

The Vatican has been working behind the scenes for months to achieve the US-Cuba rapprochement.

U.S. diplomatic relations with Havana will be restored in the biggest thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations in more than 50 years.

Foreigners going to Syria and Iraq to fight with ISIS use the Balkan states as one of their main transit points.

A police memo called on schools to increase security and to check underneath buses and other vehicles carrying students.

As Russian flights probe NATO airspace, Europe sends its most advanced warplanes to the Eastern border.

The embargo was put in place in 1959 after Fidel Castro led his anti-capitalist revolution in Cuba.

That may be changing as several initiatives create opportunities for women drivers -- and women passengers seeking safe rides.

President Obama has announced a major shift in U.S.-Cuba policy on Wednesday, just hours after the release of U.S. prisoner Alan Gross.

While New York and other major cities slowly test police body cams, the LAPD expects to deploy its program relatively quickly.

Higher education administrators and politicians are already criticizing the plan to link federal aid to college performances.

Clinton said the use of torture by the U.S. was unacceptable and should have never happened.

Pakistan will begin issuing approval for executions "within a day or two," following a Taliban attack that killed 141, including 132 children in Peshawar.

The spiritual leader says it might be better if the centuries-old tradition ended following the tenure of a “popular” Dalai Lama.

Nine British soldiers stood accused of killing up to 20 Iraqi detainees after the Battle of Danny Boy.

A new poll says only 40 percent of Americans think race relations are good, the lowest since 1995, following the Mike Brown and Eric Garner cases.

Lane will be taking over the post of Bishop of Stockport that has been vacant since May.

The prime minister said that Israel expects the bloc to act “immediately” to annul the decision.

Steroid injections tainted with black mold linked to a Boston-area compounding pharmacy killed 64 people and and made 750 people ill.

Gov. Chris Christie's administration paid fees to his wife's investment firm after New Jersey's investment in the firm was terminated.

The incident took place Wednesday in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the country’s northwest.

He's lost twice already, and other GOP moderates like Christie and Bush seem likely to run. But Mitt Romney doesn't seem to have ruled it out.

The attack on the port and the newspaper follows two car bomb explosions on Tuesday that killed 25 people, including 15 school children.

Authorities have intercepted telephone conversations between Lashkar-e-Taiba and terror suspects about a new attack.

A U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan has killed four Pakistani Taliban members and seven other insurgents.

The massacre occurred Tuesday when six militants from Tehreek-e-Taliban attacked a school, killing over 130 students.

Russia has so far spent about $80 billion -- a fifth of its international reserves -- in an unsuccessful move to stabilize the ruble.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said a transparent probe would be carried out to determine the cause for failing to monitor the assailant.