Research scientists published a report and a map in the May issue of the Preventing Chronic Disease journal that illustrates the "Most Distinctive Causes of Death" in the U.S.
Cuba is ready to name an ambassador to the United States by the end of the month, the Communist country's leader, Raúl Castro, said on Tuesday. President Obama "may" have chosen the U.S. ambassador to the island.
Americans are becoming less Christian and more secular, the Pew Research Center reported based on a massive study it conducted between June and September 2014.
Federal officials on Tuesday uncovered a sophisticated drug tunnel in Southern California that connected to a home across the border in Tijuana, Mexico.
The online travel agency CheapAir.com plans to start selling direct charter flights between the United States and Cuba beginning Wednesday. The company's move is another sign that the rapprochement President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raúl Castro initiated last November is beginning to have practical effects.
ISIS, the terror group known for the brutal rule it has established across large swaths of territory it controls in Iraq and Syria, is operating a camp in northern Mexico, just a few miles from the U.S. border and El Paso, Texas, Judicial Watch said.
The rapprochement between the United States and Cuba could mean that tens of thousands of U.S. yachts could soon descend on island, an influx for which the country's infrastructure is not prepared.
Discussions between the United States and Cuba turned to communications issues this week as a delegation led by Daniel Sepulveda, the U.S. State Department's coordinator for international communications, visited the Communist island.
Tourists in Cuba tend to appreciate its "unique character (as) one of the world's last remaining bastions of Communism," and many who fear the country will soon be "Americanized" due to warming relations with the United States are flocking to the island to take in the traditional flair.
Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio would "absolutely" defy U.S. allies to revoke any Iranian nuclear deal he might inherit from Barack Obama, the Florida senator said on Tuesday. The next president "should not be bound" by a potential agreement the Obama administration strikes with Iran, he added.
Fidel Castro upped the ante in the row between the United States and Venezuela on Tuesday when he warned that the government of embattled President Nicolás Maduro was prepared to confront U.S. "threats and impositions."
The latest round of talks between U.S. and Cuban negotiators ended after just one day on Tuesday, and participants did not disclose how much progress they had made in their attempt to restore diplomatic relations between Havana and Washington.
Relations between the United States and Cuba may have warmed since the two countries announced plans to restore full diplomatic ties in December, but Havana did not hold back on Tuesday when it called new U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, its closest ally, "arbitrary and aggressive,"
The "spring forward" mnemonic device will once again feature prominently at 2 a.m. on Sunday as Daylight Saving Time kicks in across most of the United States. The best way to stay current will be to set your clocks one hour forward before you go to bed on Saturday night.
Mexico's foreign ministry on Tuesday forcefully condemned the death of Ernesto Javier Canepa Díaz, a Mexican citizen shot to death by police in Santa Ana, California, on Friday, according to a statement released on its Web site.
President Barack Obama on Monday said that his administration's overture to Cuba will usher in reforms on the island and that he hopes to open a U.S. Embassy in Havana by mid-April. He cautioned that the opening of a full-scale diplomatic post does not mean that ties between Washington and Havana would be completely normalized.
Crowned a national hero by Cuba's president last week, convicted spy Gerardo Hernández - who was release last Dec. 17 after President Barack Obama commuted his double life sentence - says he is ready to return to duty.
