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A Cuban student, identified as Luo Xiao by her Chinese name, holds up her calligraphic work of Chinese character "rabbit" at Beijing Language and Culture University in this file photo taken on Feb 1, 2011.

Once a year, Felix Contreras and I head to New York for the Latin Alternative Music Conference.

An American who returned from Cuba decades after hijacking a jetliner to the communist island has been sentenced to 20 years in U.S. prison but will be eligible for early release on parole.

A spokeswoman for Sen. Robert Menendez said the New Jersey Democrat made a telephone call to a United States Attorney investigating one of his top fundraisers because of a concern about leaks to reporters.

State police say they posted information on the July 7 crash in Cattaraugus County on Facebook and Twitter.

Authorities say a tip called in by a Facebook follower led to the arrest of the motorist who was involved in a hit-and-run accident with an Amish horse-drawn buggy on a western New York road.

Abinanti First Representative to Call on Governor to Use Bank Settlement to Fund $1B of Tappan Zee Bridge Construction, Opposes Environmental Fund "Bridge Use" The New NY Bridge Under Construction July 2. BRIDGE still needs $3.5 Billion in financing and state has not announced where that is coming from.

In this July 7, 2014, photo, a Chinese made vehicle passes in front of a mural of revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Havana, Cuba.

There is no credible evidence that Cuban government agents hatched a smear campaign to try to link U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez to an underage prostitution scandal, government officials tell NBC 4 New York.

On the map, it's right next to Miami. But culturally speaking, Hialeah, Fla., is just as close to Havana.

New York is poised to collect nearly $3.3 billion from a recent settlement with France's largest bank for violating U.S. trade sanctions and conducting dollar transactions for clients in Sudan, Iran and Cuba.

This May 21, 2014 file photo shows Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist campaigning in Orlando, Fla.

While it was transporting Mende captives originally kidnapped in Sierra Leone from Havana , Cuba , in July 1839, the Africans took control of the ship.

BNP Paribas Pleads Guilty, to Pay $8.9 Billion for Illegally Processing Financial Transactions for Countries Subject to U.S. Economic Sanctions Washington, NY - July 1, 2014 - According to court documents submitted today, BNP Paribas S.A. , a global financial institution headquartered in Paris, agreed to enter a guilty plea to conspiring to violate ... (more)

Heat advisory in WNY from 1PM to 9PM Tuesday. The combination of hot temperatures and high humidity will combine and create heat index values or what it actually feels like to the skin as high as 104 degrees.

Fans of music and movies: the Film Society of Lincoln Center just announced the second edition of Sound + Vision.

The signs at the Texas border offer a glimpse of the enormity of the problem of unaccompanied minors trying to sneak into the US.

When NPR photographer David Gilkey was headed off to Cuba to shoot some of our stories , I told him, as his photo editor, that there was one clichA© he should absolutely avoid: cars.

Since the 1970 census the US government has been dividing the US population into Hispanic and non-Hispanic groupings.

While Republicans have seen their standing among most Latino voters collapse over the past decade, the one group where support for the GOP has been relatively solid is among Cuban Americans, especially Cuban Americans located in Florida.