Trump Administration

The second lady's summer reading challenge invites kindergarten through 8th grade students to read a dozen books this summer.

The Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press. One of the people said the potential indictment is connected to Castro's alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of planes operated by the Miami exile group.

The officials involved in preliminary discussions with Cuban authorities also told The Associated Press that they are not optimistic the communist government will accept an offer for tens of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday again blasted the Cuban government, labeling it a "failed state" run by "incompetent communists."

Once worth as much as roughly $5.5 billion on the stock market, the Broward County-based airline known for its bright yellow planes said Saturday it had shut down after its final flight departed from Detroit and landed safely in Dallas.

Spirit Airlines is preparing to stop flying. But the timing of a final decision is uncertain, The Wall Street Journal reports. President Donald Trump, however, says he’s still looking at a taxpayer-funded takeover of Spirit Airlines.

Farming equipment is falling silent across Cuba, with no fuel to power it. As a result, poverty is deepening and hunger is increasing across Cuba, a country of nearly 10 million people.

The vote on the war powers resolution showed how Republicans continue to stand behind Trump as he acts unilaterally to exert American force in a range of global conflicts.

The De Grazia brothers were ordered freed from Venezuela's brutal Rodeo I prison, where they've spent two years with no due process — but a warden's refusal to release them raises doubts that President Trump's favored regime faction is "running" the country.

American Airlines is now poised to become the first commercial airline to resume flights from Caracas to Miami with a daily, non-stop service.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel told NBC News’ Meet the Press that he would not step down in his first interview with a U.S. network, a portion of which was broadcast Thursday.

"To be housing ICE detainees in a detention camp in the middle of the Everglades … without making sure that they have enough access to nutritious food and the ability to sleep and have access to counsel — everything about this screams inhumane and unnecessary," U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, told reporters.