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WASHINGTON (AP) — Freighters once carried Cuban nickel and limestone to the port of New Orleans and North Dakota beans to Havana. Cuban families ate bowls of American rice, while U.S. tourists f...

Sony Pictures has decided not to release the theatrical showing of "The Interview," a film starring James Franco and Seth Rogan. The film is a comedy about two television journalists hired t...

BOSTON (AP) — In the biggest criminal case ever brought in the U.S. over contaminated medicine, 14 former owners or employees of a Massachusetts pharmacy were charged Wednesday in connection wit...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Gross says he learned the lesson during five years in Cuban captivity that freedom is not free.Gross spoke in Washington just after returning from Cuba, where he was impri...

(NEW YORK) — A slim majority of Americans support the immigration program created by Barack Obama’s executive action — but divisions on whether he exceeded his authority impede most ...

(NEW YORK) — Sony has told theaters they do not have to show The Interview, after the group claiming responsibility for stealing troves of Sony executives' emails released a note apparently...

Held for five years in Cuba, 65-year-old American contractor Alan Gross has been released from prison and is en route to U.S. soil, ABC News has learned exclusively.In a landmark humanitarian prisoner...

(PESHAWAR, Pakistan) — At least one student survived Tuesday's tragic Taliban attack at a Pakistan school by playing dead, the BBC reported.Shireen Khalid Wadud told the BBC that her friend...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Robin Williams' suicide seared into the world's collective mindset more than anything else this year, based on what people were searching for on Google.The reactio...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Metro says train service has been restored on the blue, orange and silver lines between Farragut West and L'Enfant Plaza after a water main break flooded part of Metro Cen...