Amid stepped-up surveillance flights, a visit of the C.I.A. director and an energy embargo, the White House is trying to increase pressure on Cuba.Raúl Castro is the former president of Cuba and younger brother of Fidel Castro.
Mr. Castro, Cuba’s former president, could soon face charges in the 1996 killings of four volunteer airmen who were members of a humanitarian group that searched for migrants at sea.Former President Raúl Castro of Cuba attending a May Day parade in Havana this month.
The United States has choked off Cuba’s fuel supply, plunging the already impoverished island into an acute energy crisis.People playing dominoes by flashlight as a protest fire burns in the background in Havana on Thursday.
Also, the Eurovision finale. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
The president has shifted the foundations of American policy toward China, throwing aside the adversarial approach of recent years.President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China arriving for the state banquet in Beijing on Thursday.
Having fought the Trump administration to a draw, China’s Xi Jinping is proposing “constructive strategic stability,” aimed at drawing lines he thinks the U.S. should not cross.President Xi Jinping of China welcomed President Trump in Beijing on Thursday.
On Threads and other sites, liberal-minded Chinese accounts were mocking the proceedings and offering a rare window into opinions on Xi Jinping and his leadership style.President Trump was cheered by children upon his arrival in Beijing on Thursday
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi is accused of leading attacks in Europe and being part of a retaliation campaign by Iran. Prosecutors say he is a leader of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia with ties to Iran.
A commander of one of the most-hard line and powerful Iranian proxies in Iraq has been charged with plotting to attack Jewish sites in the United States.A protester holding a Kataib Hezbollah flag in Baghdad, Iraq, in March. The militia was founded after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq,
The F.B.I. director continues to come under scrutiny for mixing government business with dates, vacation and leisure time.The memorial above the sunken battleship U.S.S. Arizona in Hawaii in 2016. Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, was accompanied by Navy SEALs on a “V.I.P. Snorkel” over the site that
Federal officials say that hundreds of additional agents, officers and National Guard troops will be deployed ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration.Members of the Mississippi National Guard near the Washington Monument in April.
The Trump administration broke the law, Michigan and others told a court, by declaring an “energy emergency” and forcing an aging coal-burning plant to keep operating.The J.H. Campbell coal-burning power plant in West Olive, Mich. The state is challenging a Trump order to keep the aging plant active
For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.The necropolis of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, where a nonroyal mummy was found with some lines on papyrus from Book 2 of Homer’s “Iliad.”
Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted the sentence of Ms. Peters, a former county clerk serving a nine-year sentence for her role in a plot to examine voting machines after the 2020 election.Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2024 after bei
The loyalist, Dan Bishop, put his fealty to the president on display when he pressed the F.B.I. to chase investigative leads it had already rejected.During his time in the House, from 2019 to 2025, Mr. Bishop served on the subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government.
This was the third time Harvey Weinstein was on trial accused of raping an aspiring actress at a hotel in Manhattan in 2013.Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer, has faced three sex crimes trials in Manhattan.
Nancy Pelosi and Jerrold Nadler are retiring, prompting competitive races to succeed them. Whoever wins their seats could tap big donors and shape the Democratic Party.Representative Jerry Nadler and Nancy Pelosi, then the House speaker, loomed large in their respective districts. Now that they are
Representative Steve Cohen has represented Memphis since 2007. After Republicans redistricted his seat, he is leaving the field, possibly to his young rival, Justin J. Pearson.Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, held a news conference in his office on Capitol Hill on Friday to announc
Republican state leaders tried to expel Democratic lawmakers during their fight over redistricting last year. The court said it was not necessary.The top Democrat in the Texas House, Gene Wu, was among the lawmakers Gov. Greg Abbott sought to expel last year.
The comedy star, who is the subject of a new documentary, has faced a series of unimaginable losses. Yet he says there are always laughs to remember.Grieving gives you “muscles to survive,” Martin Short said.
Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the target of an Israeli strike in Gaza City, took over the group’s military wing in Gaza last year. Israeli officials said he was also an architect of the Oct. 7 attack.
The Department of Health and critical psychiatry activists are hoping to upend 40 years of medical orthodoxy.
A singer and actress, she drew wide attention for the fatal 1976 shooting of Spider Sabich. She was convicted of negligent homicide.
Three years after King Charles III was crowned, the Royal Opera House in London hung plush new stage curtains bearing the monarch’s insignia — but only after the old ones gave up the ghost.
