President Obama should lift travel restrictions and adopt other measures to start normalizing relations with Cuba, a Washington think tank said in recommendations unveiled this week.
MIAMI, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Incoming U.S. President Barack Obama plans further moves to relax restrictions on contacts with Cuba than he promised during the campaign, sources say.
HAVANA, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has offered to meet with President-elect Barack Obama, the communist island's state media reported.
HAVANA, May 27 (UPI) -- Ex-Cuban leader Fidel Castro says U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama would keep Cubans hungry were he to maintain the United States' trade embargo.
MIAMI, May 18 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has drawn criticism from some Cuban Americans who disagree with his policy on negotiating with U.S. enemies.
Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler