BARACK OBAMA

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.

Higher education administrators and politicians are already criticizing the plan to link federal aid to college performances.

A new poll says only 40 percent of Americans think race relations are good, the lowest since 1995, following the Mike Brown and Eric Garner cases.

He's lost twice already, and other GOP moderates like Christie and Bush seem likely to run. But Mitt Romney doesn't seem to have ruled it out.

Authorities have intercepted telephone conversations between Lashkar-e-Taiba and terror suspects about a new attack.

Russia has so far spent about $80 billion -- a fifth of its international reserves -- in an unsuccessful move to stabilize the ruble.

Amir Hekmati, who is held for allegedly spying in Iran, also wrote an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama.

The sanctions, in response to Russia’s attacks on the Ukraine, were enacted Tuesday and are expected to arrive by the end of the week

The judge concluded that Obama’s executive action exceeds “prosecutorial discretion.”

North Korea's ambassador to the U.N. also said the "so-called 'human rights issue'" in his country is "politically fabricated."

The 50-acre center in Dilley will house up to 2,400 illegal immigrants and include a library, classrooms and a playground.

Dr. Vivek Murthy's confirmation as U.S. surgeon general was impeded by Republicans over his views supporting gun control.

Vivek Murthy became President Barack Obama's nominee for surgeon general in 2013, and the Senate could finally vote on his candidacy Monday.

President Obama has been briefed on the hostage crisis, which local law enforcement is reportedly addressing as they would a terrorist threat.

Disclosures from the internal documents have caused turmoil at the studio, a unit of Japan's Sony Corp.

The election victory effectively gives a green light to a consumption-tax increase in 2017.