CUBA

They will be the first in their positions in more than 50 years.

Cuban-Americans on both sides of the aisle denounced Obama's move as rewarding the Castros.

For the first time in a half century it will be legal to import the world's best cigars into the world's richest nation.

The new Cuba policy doesn't actually open up travel visas for Americans, but it's a step in that direction, experts say.

Only 5 percent of Cubans have had unrestricted access to the open Internet. That's about to change.

Cuban president Raúl Castro saluted the reopening of diplomatic ties with the U.S. but said Cuba wants to end the embargo now.

The longstanding embargo on the island nation will officially remain in place despite a historic diplomatic shift.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio spoke Wednesday after to the announcement by the Obama administration that the U.S. will normalize relations with Cuba.

The Vatican has been working behind the scenes for months to achieve the US-Cuba rapprochement.

U.S. diplomatic relations with Havana will be restored in the biggest thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations in more than 50 years.

The embargo was put in place in 1959 after Fidel Castro led his anti-capitalist revolution in Cuba.

President Obama has announced a major shift in U.S.-Cuba policy on Wednesday, just hours after the release of U.S. prisoner Alan Gross.

The prize, an alternative to the Nobel, was awarded to Castro for "important contributions to emphasizing the need to eliminate nuclear war."

A newly released report says that the unsuccessful program needlessly jeopardized young Cubans.

The CIA operated "black site" detention facilities in nations around the world, where it held and interrogted terror suspects in the aftermath of 9/11.

Republican lawmakers cheered the Senate bill, but some say it's really meant to play to a Florida audience.

Here are six things to look for in the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee torture report, to be released Tuesday.

Felix Baez, 43, was one of 256 Cuban doctors and nurses who went to West Africa to treat Ebola patients.

The U.S. government has repeatedly called on Cuba to release Alan Gross, who was supposedly unaware that what he was doing was illegal.

Many lawmakers have rejected provisions on transfer of detainees -- an essential step toward the closure of the Guantanamo Bay facility.

The spotlight now shifts from the jungles of Colombia to a well-guarded meeting hall in Cuba.