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The U.S. has for the first time abstained from voting against an annual UN resolution calling for an end to its economic embargo against Cuba. The final tally was 191-0, with the U.S.…
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Although the new directives state that there is no intention to promote a "regime change" in Cuba, it sets out the objectives that the U.S. pursues in the current relationship, taking…
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Republicans fear that a Trump electoral debacle could hand one or both houses of Congress to the Democrats. Democrats and others outside the Republican establishment are uneasy about…
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Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who was in the vanguard of the movement to stop the Vietnam War and became one of the nation’s best-known champions of liberal causes, has died in Santa…
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The list of increasingly visible, vested interests wanting to put an end to the embargo is growing in profoundly important and practical ways. Leading the way is the medical field where…
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The White House on Friday issued something called a Presidential Policy Directive devoted to "United States-Cuba Normalization." At its core, the directive breaks, clearly and…
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Amendments expand venues for scientific collaboration, facilitate increased humanitarian support, and bolster trade and commercial opportunities between the U.S. and Cuba. The new…
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Donald Trump had it coming for a long time. Now the day of reckoning has arrived. What I didn’t predict is that of all the cardinal sins of which Trump is guilty of—avarice, wrath,…
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It’s a word used to describe a cat and even a coward. Donald Trump — and he’s not alone in this — uses it to describe a woman’s genitalia. And the word, as used by Trump in a recently…
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Since we don't know who will win and nobody knows what to expect, no matter what the results of the presidential election, what's most important is to understand that we're in the…
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