Cuba News

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.

Toronto saxophonist Jane Bunnett brings her new all-woman sextet of Cuban singers and players to the Edmonton International Jazz Festival Saturday.

With that hopeful but heartbreaking dispatch, a survivor named Luba Mizne implored the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for rescue amid the devastation of 1945 Warsaw.

The wife of Alan Gross visited her husband in a Cuban prison, then likened his plight to an American prisoner of war traded for five Taliban members.

When you arrive at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, you're greeted with a barrage of billboards with the popular Cuban government slogan promoting tourism: "Cuba, where the past and the present converge."

It's challenge enough to try to fit all the life we have to live into our 80 or so years, so imagine the difficulty of trying to cram one such life into 85 minutes of documentary.

When Americans think of business in Cuba, they think of government-owned enterprise.

Every day, you can see signs of a subtle change in relations between Cuba and the U.S. at Miami International Airport.