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Trump administration indicts Cuba’s Raul Castro over 1996 plane shootdown

White House also issued a [statement](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/05/presidential-message-on-cuban-independence-day/) on Wednesday marking the establishment of the Cuban

U.S. grand jury indicts Raul Castro, ex-Cuban president

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China says US should stop 'threats' against Cuba after ex-leader charged

White House continues to ratchet up pressure on Cuba. The US has imposed new sanctions

Democrats seize on Trump support for Spencer Pratt in LA mayor’s race

politics or who is in the White House,” he said. “I keep telling people it’s a nonpartisan race.”

How Trump acolytes seized on UK teen’s killing to push anti-immigration agenda

White House directed a request for comment to the state department statement. “Henry Nowak’s murder

Second round in Islamabad: Who’s at the US-Iran negotiating table?

White House, where he was a primary architect of the Abraham Accords and recently participated

Young Americans demand court halt Trump’s biggest rollbacks of pollution protections

White House and EPA both declined to comment. More than a dozen environmental groups and public

Why Starmer still can't move on from the Mandelson mess

White House was expecting Mandelson. As the now former top mandarin at the Foreign Office

AI will help make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within a year, says Anthropic co-founder

White House and other AI accelerationists of “fear-mongering” to encourage regulation that could cement

What's it like to negotiate with Iran? We asked people who have done it

White House has shown an eagerness to resolve the conflict quickly. "If one side perceives

Ebola fears surge on the ground in Congo over rapid spread of a rare type

White House played a role in the decision to move the Americans to Europe, Pillai

Trump official-turned-foe John Bolton accepts plea deal in documents case

White House, portraying the president as being unfit for office, lacking basic knowledge of geography

US sanctions elected Hezbollah MPs and Lebanese security officials

White House “to crack down on individuals they say are standing in the way of the disarmament

SpaceX is poised for blastoff with an IPO likely to break records

White House on Tuesday. Trump said he would purchase a Tesla vehicle in what he calls

Iran war day 83: Tehran ‘reviewing’ latest US response to end conflict

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller warned Tehran it faced a choice between

Trump says he will ‘try and make’ son’s wedding, but timing is ‘not good’ for him

White House Rose Garden in 1971. As for Trump, he has been losing his political

Taiwan’s President Lai says he would be happy to speak with Donald Trump

White House weighed a massive arms package sale to the democratic island. It was the second

Somali referee Artan to miss World Cup after being barred from entering US

White House Task Force on the World Cup, said: "While I can't go into

DR Congo cancel World Cup training camp in Kinshasa over Ebola outbreak

White House World Cup Task Force, housed under the Department of Homeland Security, stressed that

US deepens European uncertainty with deployment of 5,000 troops to Poland

White House is creating confusion over which elements should be prioritised. “It is confusing indeed