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The U.S. collegiate national baseball team will host its Cuban counterpart next month in a five-game international "friendship" series.The Triple-A Iowa Cubs said Tuesday the series will start in Des Moines on July 18. The Americans and Cubans will then play two games each in Omaha, Neb., and Durham, N.C.The U.S. and Cuba resumed play at the collegiate level last year in Havana after a 16-year hiatus. This year's series will be the first on American soil between the two nations since 1996.The 24-man American roster will be announced on June 30. The team will be coached by Jim Schlossnagle of TCU....
The Pentagon released the names of Guantanamo Bay's 46 "indefinite detainees," terror suspects considered too dangerous to transfer from the prison and who cannot be...
There will be festivities and fireworks, but Kata Secic can't muster much enthusiasm for Croatia's historic entry into the European Union.The 53-year-old Croatian te...
Members of 40 families driven from a farm in northern Colombia a decade ago are afraid to return, even though a court has now declared them the rightful owners.They ...
Thirty-eight countries have beaten a U.N.-imposed deadline of 2015 to cut in half the proportion of hungry people.The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization on Satur...
The U.S. Women's National Team captured its second consecutive gold medal at the 2013 Pan American Cup, held June 10-16 in Lima, Peru. Team USA lived up to its world...
Former Kennedy Dan Fenn and Author David Coleman weigh in on the 50th anniversary
Former dictator does something even his fiercest critics thought he never would
Columbia University Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs on what is needed to boost U.S. economic growth.
Cuba has begun offering Internet access at more than 100 publicly run computer centers around the country.People are lining up at one of the cyber-salons in Havana, ...
Cuban scientists project that rising sea levels will damage 122 Cuban towns or even wipe them off the map. They also say beaches will be submerged, water sources tai...
Australian endurance athlete Chloe McCardel is stroking steadily through the balmy waters off Cuba in an attempt to become the first person to swim from Havana to Fl...
Australian Chloe McCardel will battle swift sea currents, jellyfish stings, dangerous sharks and her own physical limits this week when she attempts a record swim fr...
The United States and Cuba will resume talks this week on restarting direct mail service despite a deadlock between Washington and Havana over detainees that has lar...
President Barack Obama has appointed a new envoy to lead a renewed effort to close the detention center at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Here's a look at wh...
The U.S. is identifying several dozen Guantanamo Bay prisoners slated for indefinite detention at the U.S. base in Cuba.The men are considered too dangerous to relea...
President Barack Obama has chosen a high-powered Washington lawyer with extensive experience in all three branches of the government to be the State Department's spe...
Christopher Sabatini on whether losing travel restrictions for Cubans will bring real change to the communist country
The top Republican crafting the Senate's sweeping immigration-reform legislation acknowledged Sunday the bill still has flaws, while a fellow GOP senator said their ...
Jay-Z and Beyonce stir controversy over vacation