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UN hears major differences on global approach to drug use

Jamaica defended its decriminalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana. Iran said it seized 620 tons of different ...

Fidel Castro,

Cuba's aging leaders to remain in power years longer

The former guerrilla fighters who founded Cuba's single-party government will hold power for years to come after a ...

Congress unlikely to act on Puerto Rico ahead of deadline

Congress seems increasingly unlikely to take action to help Puerto Rico ahead of a May 1 deadline for the commonwealth to ...

Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura

Fidel Castro gives rare speech saying he's nearing the end

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro delivered a valedictory speech Tuesday to the Communist Party that he put in power ...

Fidel Castro

10 Things to Know for Wednesday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday: 1.

Barack Obama

Obama's first farewell tour starts with damage control

President Barack Obama sets out this week on his first in a series of international farewell tours, a sometimes wistful ...

Raul Castro presents grim portrait of Cuban reforms

Cuban President Raul Castro delivered a grim report on the state of the country on Saturday, acknowledging that the communist ...

China and Japan help boost foreign holdings of US debt

Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities jumped in February, driven by China and Japan, the two biggest foreign owners ...

House Republicans miss budget deadline amid caucus divisions

House Republicans departed Washington on Friday having missed a deadline to pass their long-stalled budget and without ...

Kerry says Cuba should let anyone visit via cruise lines

A Cuban law that bars anyone born on the island from returning by ship is discriminatory and should be eliminated, Secretary ...

Guantanamo review board rejects release for oldest prisoner

A U.S. government review board has decided that the oldest prisoner at Guantanamo is not eligible for release. The Periodic ...

Raul Grijalva, Rob Bishop

Ryan: Congress needs to bring order to Puerto Rico crisis

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Congress needs to "bring order to the chaos" in Puerto Rico and prevent U.S. taxpayers from ...

John Kerry

US cites global governance crisis for declining human rights

The Obama administration is blaming a global crisis in governance as well as atrocities committed by non-state actors for a ...

Raul Grijalva, Rob Bishop

House GOP abruptly cancels vote on package for Puerto Rico

House Republicans on Wednesday abruptly canceled a committee vote on a plan to help Puerto Rico deal with its $70 billion ...

House GOP releases legislation to reverse Puerto Rico's debt

Seeking to reverse Puerto Rico's spiraling economy, House Republicans on Tuesday released compromise legislation to create ...

Manuscripts among rare Hemingway items shown at JFK library

Ernest Hemingway penned 47 possible endings to A Farewell to Arms, eight of which are on display at a new exhibition on the ...

'Hire some new redactors': How US hinders records requests

As U.S. officials dealt with the fallout of the government's once-secret "Cuban Twitter" program, they had one thing on their ...

Haiti artists forge int'l reputation with art made of junk

Amid a maze of car repair shops in Haiti's gritty capital, Andre Eugene pitches a shredded tire he found atop a towering ...

The Latest: New Zealand reviews its foreign trust rules

The Latest on the publication by a coalition of media outlets of an investigation into offshore financial dealings by the ...

Tiny British Virgin Islands has big role in leaked documents

A thriving financial services industry that evolved over the last 30 years in the British Virgin Islands made it one of the ...