Raul Castro said Thursday that he expected 57-year-old Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez to serve two five-year terms as president and eventually take Castroβs place as head of the Communist Party, potentially dominating Cuban politics until 2031.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed that his CIA chief secretly met with Kim Jong Un in North Korea and said βa good relationship was formedβ heading into the adversariesβ anticipated summit.
The Cuban government on Wednesday selected 57-year-old First Vice President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez as the sole candidate to succeed President Raul Castro in a transition aimed at ensuring that the countryβs single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it.
A Charlotte City Council Member is in the middle of a social media firestorm after she posted a conspiracy theory about the 9/11 terror attacks.
U.S. health officials say a closely watched medicine made from the marijuana plant significantly reduces seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy and warrants approval in the country.
A family spokesman says former first lady Barbara Bush is in βfailing healthβ and wonβt seek additional medical treatment.
Gun rights supporters β many carrying rifles and ammunition β gathered at state capitols across the U.S. on Saturday to push back against efforts to pass stricter gun-control laws that they fear threaten their constitutional right to bear arms.
Voters in Alaskaβs largest city are on track to becoming the first in the U.S. to defeat a so-called bathroom bill in a referendum that asked them to require people using public bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender at birth.
Organizers are encouraging gun rights supporters to bring unloaded rifles to rallies at state capitols across the U.S. this weekend, pushing back against a wave of student-led gun violence protests that some see as a threat to the Second Amendment.
Vice President Mike Pence will be in Charlotte on Friday, April 20th.Β
California Gov. Jerry Brown has agreed to deploy 400 National Guard troops at President Donald Trumpβs request, but not all will head to the U.S.-Mexico border and none will enforce federal immigration enforcement.
Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan will not run for re-election, people close to the Wisconsin lawmaker said Wednesday.
After privately assuring senators that his company will do better, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is undergoing a two-day congressional inquisition that will be very public β and possibly pivotal for the massive social networking company he created.
Federal agents have raided the office of President Donald Trumpβs personal attorney Michael Cohen, seizing records on topics that include a $130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who says she had sex with Trump.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Monday that 225 members of the stateβs National Guard were heading to the U.S.-Mexico border to support President Donald Trumpβs call for troops to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration.
Asserting the situation had reached βa point of crisis,β President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation directing the deployment of the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration.
China on Wednesday issued a $50 billion list of U.S. goods including soybeans and small aircraft for possible tariff hikes in an escalating and potentially damaging technology dispute with Washington.
Trump administration officials said Monday theyβre crafting a new legislative package aimed at closing immigration βloopholes,β hours after the president called on Republicans in Congress to immediately pass a border bill using the βNuclear Option if necessaryβ to muscle it through.
The Trump administration opened the door to a potential White House meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, raising the possibility of an Oval Office welcome for Putin for the first time in more than a decade even as relations between the two powers have deteriorated.
First, the United States imposed a tax on Chinese steel and aluminum. Then, China counterpunched Monday with tariffs on a host of U.S. products, including apples, pork and ginseng.
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