The Latest Breaking News from Cuba

Cubans bundled up in heavy jackets, hats and gloves and shuttered their homes on Monday as near-record cold and strong winds slammed the balmy Caribbean island more accustomed to bright sun and sultry trade winds.

MIAMI — Federal agents say a man borrowed his friend’s boat on Jan. 21 and used it to pick up 27 migrants from Cuba to bring them back to the United States.

WASHINGTON — Four Republican members of Congress introduced legislation this week to establish a new State Department position that would be tasked with combating communism and authoritarianism.

By Dave Sherwood

Some 790 people who participated in anti-government protests in Cuba last year face prosecution for sedition, violent attacks, public disorder, theft and other crimes

The 6-1, 210-pounder — ranked No. 5 among international prospects by MLB Pipeline — played in Cuba’s top-level league from 2016 to 2020 and in Japan’s minor leagues.

Following recent threats of a potential military deployment to Cuba earlier this month, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin discussed the “strategic partnership” and further coordination of “actions in the international arena” with Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel in a call disclosed Monday by the Kremlin.

We've got quite a bit to get through this week so please keep your questions for the end. Biden racked up a year in office. Another keystone piece of his legislative agenda floundered in the Senate. And, you can rebook your winter holiday to Cuba now.

WASHINGTON — The CIA doesn’t believe that a foreign adversary is engaged in a global campaign targeting U.S. personnel wielding a secret weapon, intelligence officials revealed this week. But the agency still cannot explain a core group of over two dozen cases — including those in Cuba that drove the…