EVERY day, as he has done for the past 20 years, Carlos makes the rounds collecting bets in central Havana for "la bolita" – a clandestine national lottery that provides a sliver of hope for Cubans ...

Obviously, some of today’s young’uns, like those recently arrested in Panama City for various unnecessary violations of laws ...

This week, the Cuban government once again refrained from taking a definitive stance during a United Nations General Assembly vote that referenced ...

The winners of the 85th annual Peabody Awards will be announced on May 1. The Board of Jurors for the Peabody Awards 2025 ...

For Sonia Pérez, stepping into Havana’s Doña Alicia restaurant felt like entering a movie. Even as Cuba struggles with power ...

President Abraham Lin­coln signs a bill ending slavery in Washington, D.C. Approximately nine months later he would issue the ...

Georgia’s highest court waded Wednesday into a fight between Black landowners and local officials who have weakened ...

Betting has been illegal on the communist island for the past 66 years, but "la bolita" has persisted, and even grown, as ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed two bills into law Tuesday to rename the "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" on state ...

A federal judge in Boston issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed to stop the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...