As President Donald Trump mused about “taking Cuba” earlier this year, the question that has hovered over the exile community for decades — what happens the day after Cuba’s communist regime falls — suddenly gained urgency, sparking an intense planning effort in Miami for a future transition whose contours are still unclear.

Prominent...Read more

When I first met my husband, I was astounded that he could glimpse a bird flitting among trees 50 yards away and identify it with the confidence of someone looking at a field guide. “Cardinal,” he’d say, as we flew down the highway, after a flash of red appeared for a split second.

It seemed impossible. Was he making these identifications...Read more

SAN DIEGO — No one can know what happened inside the house on Boulder Lake Avenue in the hours before the Voight family was found dead earlier this month.

San Diego police are still investigating the shootings, and suspect a decorated war veteran shot and killed his wife and daughter, then turned the gun on himself.

Relatives say Amy Voight ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he expects talks with Iran to resume this week, even after rejecting the latest Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reported, citing a phone interview with the president.

Trump said the deal Iran wants is something that the U.S. might have agreed to about a year ago, adding that Iran has overplayed...Read more

To visit Bab el-Mandeb is to understand that old adage about looks being deceiving. For this humble fishing village in Yemen, a tumbledown grouping of barely-there huts nestled between the water and an imposing mountain range, stands sentinel over one of the world's most vital waterways.

The village shares its name with the Bab el-Mandeb Strait...Read more

The powerful nor’easter that has flooded streets across New York City and multiple states and sent trees crashing to the ground is expected to continue Sunday, with strong winds and heavy rains continuing through the day.

The storm is expected to bring heavy winds until noon Sunday and a coastal flooding warning remains in effect in New York ...Read more

U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham displayed a willingness to take on one of the toughest policy traps in British policies by pledging to overhaul care for the elderly. He also indicated he may introduce new taxes to pay for it.

For years successive British prime ministers have tried and failed to improve the means-tested adult social-care ...Read more

A 25-year-old Philadelphia woman won the $300,000 first prize in a NASA competition to design food systems to improve how astronauts eat in space, and eventually how they will eat on Mars, the space agency announced Thursday.

Chinyere “Chichi” Ukeje, a native of Bowie, Md., now living with her husband in Northeast Philadelphia, submitted a ...Read more

The once simple message "Get out the vote" now has a corollary: "Protect the vote."

That message was hammered home Saturday for dozens of voting rights groups, community organizations and unions attending a rally to recruit and train poll watchers for the November election.

Organizers for several groups brought together under the banner of ...Read more

U.K. police were investigating a potential terrorism incident after five men were arrested near an air base used in U.S. strikes on Iran, with President Donald Trump saying the suspects were “looking to do big damage” to the facility.

Trump credited British authorities with foiling the incident early Sunday at RAF Fairford, a key launching ...Read more

Iran stuck to its seven-day proposal for reopening the crucial Strait of Hormuz, saying it won’t soften its conditions, while President Donald Trump sent mixed signals about his willingness to reach a deal.

The conditions Iran wants are something Washington might have agreed to about a year ago, Trump told Axios in an interview on Sunday, ...Read more

The one-two punch of a higher-than-usual tide and weeks of heavy rain submerged South Florida streets this weekend and put the region under a coastal flood advisory.

Starting Saturday evening and continuing into Sunday morning’s high tide, the ocean poured into urban cities up and down the coast, breaking a recent record for flooding in Fort ...Read more

A lawsuit filed Wednesday by St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry says Mayor Kaohly Her overstepped bounds in other ways beyond sexual harassment.

While the harassment allegations are attention-grabbing, the lawsuit also describes the backdrop to Her’s interactions with the department since she became mayor, working conditions after Henry made a ...Read more

With moderate flooding already has been reported at the Jersey Shore, along with wind gusts to 50 mph, the beach towns were left to wonder Friday what may happen when the extraordinary early-season nor’easter gets closer.

And forecasters were warning that the storm almost certainly would overstay its welcome.

“It could be slow to pull out,...Read more

More than 175,000 people have visited the Obama Presidential Center since its opening, with visitors coming from 50 U.S. states and 39 countries. Nearly a third were from Illinois.

The statistics come from data released Saturday in a statement by the Obama Foundation commemorating 100 days since the presidential center first opened June 19. ...Read more

A low-pressure trough near Bermuda could become a tropical depression in the next few days, according to experts with the National Hurricane Center.

Tropical Storm Fay, after degenerating last Tuesday, redeveloped into a tropical storm on Thursday evening. But by late Sunday morning it was once again a tropical depression located far east of ...Read more

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Are people on the South Pole walking upside down from the rest of the world? – Ralph P., U.S.

When I was standing at the South Pole, I felt the same way I feel anywhere on ...Read more

Two hurricanes churning in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico are sending high surf toward Southern California that will overlap with unusually high tides, bringing hazards for beachgoers and possible coastal flooding.

The hurricanes, Polo and Odalys, are not expected to make landfall in California, and only isolated showers are forecasted in parts ...Read more

The proposed permanent U.S. military base in Poland, dubbed Fort Trump, will cost as much as 17 billion zloty ($4.4 billion) and could open as early as in 2029, according to a report from newspaper Rzeczpospolita.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in New York this week that Poland, a NATO member and a front-line state to Russia’s...Read more

Brazil’s government extended measures to contain rising fuel prices, ensuring continued relief for consumers ahead of the presidential election’s first round on Oct. 4.

The Finance Ministry ordinance ensures that a diesel fuel subsidy totaling 2.12 reais ($0.41) per liter — which was scheduled to expire Saturday — will last at least ...Read more