Cuba

A woman who infiltrated the U.S. intelligence community and spent years spying for Cuba’s Castro regime is set to be released from prison this month.

The United States Embassy in Cuba is reopening visa and consular services Wednesday.

The flights would be the first since the Trump administration. Cuba has now agreed to accept deportees.

U.S. and Cuban officials plan to meet in Havana on Tuesday to discuss migration policy. It would be the latest in a series of sessions between two governments with a historically icy relationship.

Gay couples have begun to get married in Cuba under the country’s new Family Code.

Cuban officials say they’ve begun to restore some power after Hurricane Ian knocked out electricity to the entire island. The storm that hit with Category 3 force also devastated some of the country’s most important tobacco farms when it hit the island’s western tip and killed at least two people. The Energy and Mines Ministry announced Wednesday it had restored...

Power was initially knocked out to about 1 million people in Cuba’s western provinces, but later the entire grid collapsed.

One of Florida’s prominent airports is set to suspend flights Tuesday as Hurricane Ian heads toward the state, expected to become a dangerous Category 4 hurricane after making landfall Tuesday morning in western Cuba. A number of airlines around the country are also preparing for flight cancellations and changes.

Florida’s Gulf Coast was bracing for Hurricane Ian as it churned toward the state and was expected to become a dangerous Category 4 hurricane after making landfall Tuesday morning in western Cuba.

Cuban voters have approved a sweeping “family law” code that will allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt as well as redefining rights for children and grandparents. Official news media say the measure passed by 66.9% to 33.1% in an unusual national referendum. The reforms met unusually strong open resistance from the growing evangelical movement in Cuba despite an extensive...

Take a look at the footage captured from the International Space Station of Hurricane Ian in the western Caribbean Sea.

Evacuations were underway along Florida’s Gulf Coast Monday as Hurricane Ian formed and was quickly strengthening and expected to become a dangerous Category 4 hurricane before possible landfall later in the week.

A tropical storm watch was issued for the lower Florida Keys Sunday as Tropical Storm Ian was set to rapidly strengthen, with a large stretch of the Gulf Coast of Florida preparing for a possible landfall later this week.

Miami and Fort Lauderdale are now out of the cone of concern, but Tropical Storm Ian is still forecast to strengthen and impact Florida and Cuba as a hurricane

The Biden administration said Wednesday that the U.S. Embassy in Cuba will begin processing full immigrant visas in early 2023, making it easier for Cubans to reunite with family members in the United States.

Cuban firefighters are working with special teams sent by Mexico and Venezuela as they battle for a second day to control a fire blazing at a big oil tank farm. The area’s governor says efforts Sunday are focusing on preventing the flames from spreading further. Authorities say one firefighter is dead and others are missing since lightning struck a storage...

Cuban authorities say a fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility is raging uncontrolled in the city of Matanzas, where four explosions and flames injured 121 people and left 17 firefighters missing.

While the caravans have garnered media attention, the migrants traveling in them represent a tiny fraction of the migratory flow that carries people to the U.S. border every day, usually with the help of smugglers.

Much of the Florida peninsula, along with parts of Cuba and the Bahamas, are under a tropical storm warning.

The Biden administration has said it will reactivate the long-stalled Family Reunification Program, which lets Cubans legally in the U.S. bring close relatives.