Cuba News

Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez met Fidel Castro after the Cuban leader grabbed power in the 1959 revolution - the beginning of a decades-long and controversial friendship.

Dinner and a movie go hand in hand - and with a host of Michelin-starred chefs who have recently moved into downtown's 10013 ZIP, there's some good new neighborhood grub to go with the latest Tribeca Film Festival screenings.

Cuba's government said Wednesday it has launched a probe into how hundreds of thousands of customer cellphone numbers fell into the hands of a U.S. government program that used them to secretly set up a mobile-based, Twitter-like social network on the island.

A Jewish contractor who has launched a hunger strike while serving a long prison term in Cuba is receiving "dignified and decent treatment" in a hospital ward, where he is in normal and stable health, Cuba said on Wednesday.

Senate subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT., right, talks with US Agency for International Development Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2014, following the committee's hearing of the USAID's fiscal 2015 budget.

Binghamton Mets first baseman/designated hitter Matt Clark said following Sunday's win that the team's lineup had an abundance of power The America East Conference named Binghamton junior attackman Tucker Nelson its men's lacrosse Player of the Week on Monday.

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A federal proposal requiring more efficiency from wood-burning stoves has ignited a debate between the Obama administration and lawmakers who oppose the new regulations, arguing the rules impose an unfair burden on people in remote areas.

In this Oct. 20, 2013, file photo, Yoani Sanchez, a dissident blogger from Havana, Cuba, talks about the difficulties of practicing her brand of news gathering during a session at the 69th Annual General Assembly of the Inter American Press Association in Denver.

Usually Havana lags behind New York, but, with the partnership of U.S. choreographer Ron Brown, dance fans in the Cuban capital got the jump on the Big Apple.

As the demands of the professional journalist shifts into multimedia storytelling, data analytics and Web coding, are journalism schools properly educating and preparing young journalists for today's newsroom? Christine Rushton, 21, senior, Washington State University Rushton is working on a double degree in communication with a journalism emphasis ... (more)

The U.S. Agency for International Development is undertaking the anti-poverty effort with 32 partners from private industry and the academic world.

Sources have told the Advance that Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis is being mentioned as a possible running mate for GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino.

ECB decision. The European Central Bank will announce the outcome of its latest policy meeting at 7:45 a.m. Expectations are for no change to rates.

As the demands of the professional journalist shifts into multimedia storytelling, data analytics and Web coding, are journalism schools properly educating and preparing young journalists for today's newsroom? Christine Rushton, 21, senior, Washington State University Rushton is working on a double degree in communication with a journalism emphasis ... (more)

In this Nov. 6, 2013, file photo, workers landscape the area near a new port under construction in Mariel, Cuba.

As the demands of the professional journalist shifts into multimedia storytelling, data analytics and Web coding, are journalism schools properly educating and preparing young journalists for today's newsroom? Christine Rushton, 21, senior, Washington State University Rushton is working on a double degree in communication with a journalism emphasis ... (more)

It's being described as a charm offensive, an olive branch and a peace offering.

Lifetime Emmy Award winner Ernie Anastos has been the voice of Big Apple news for more than three decades.

Opponents of the president of the New York City public school union are calling foul over his recent "educational trip" to Cuba while members continue to work without a contract, according to The New York Post.