The releases are also taking place days after U.S. President Joe Biden's administration announced ... and humanitarian ways to make it happen. Havana said, however, that the gesture to the pontiff ...

Florida Democrats torched outgoing President Joe Biden after he decided to remove Cuba's state-sponsor-of-terrorism designation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden notified Congress of his intent to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, the White House announced, as part of a deal facilitated by the Catholic Church to free political prisoners on the island.

U.S. President Joe Biden will relax sanctions targeting long-time foe Cuba days before Donald Trump takes office in a broad set of steps on Tuesday that he expects to lead to release of political prisoners in Havana.

Cuban authorities would release some of them before Biden's administration ends on ... legal and humanitarian ways to make it happen. Havana did not link the prisoners' release to the U.S ...

WASHINGTON/HAVANA (Reuters) -The Biden administration ... relations just days before Donald Trump takes office. President Joe Biden's announcements effectively roll back many of the sanctions ...

In a last-minute move before he leaves office next week, President Joe Biden removed Cuba from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, lifted sanctions on companies run by Cuba’s military and again suspended a provision in a law that allows Cuban Americans to seek compensation for confiscated property on the island.

But Cuba is still a Communist dictatorship that rules through fear and brutality against its own population and provides safe haven for terrorist killers from groups like Colombia’s ELN, as well as fugitive murderers from the US; its secret police are also central to Nicolás Maduro’s continued tyranny in Venezuela.

President Joe Biden said Friday that Meta’s decision ... Biden won’t comment on new Havana syndrome intelligence Biden told reporters Friday that he would not comment on new intelligence ...

President Joe Biden is removing Cuba from a U.S. government list of state sponsors of terrorism on Tuesday, according to administration officials.

Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday removed Cuba from a blacklist of nations ... prisoners from its jails following talks with the Vatican. In La Guinera, one of Havana's poorest outlying neighborhoods and a hotspot for protests in 2021, Dariel ...