A new twist in the tensions between the United States and Cuba. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in favor of a U.S. company whose docks were confiscated by the Castro regime in 1960 after Fidel Castro came to power. The court’s decision — in a case openly supported by U.S. President Donald Trump — opens the door to future claims by other U.S. firms and citizens affected during the wave of expropriations carried out in the early years of the Cuban Revolution.

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Two red hearts stood out on her fitted dress, one over her chest and another at the throat, similar to those in images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In the entryway to her office in Seattle, Washington, there was a large painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe, next to which her clients lit votive candles to pray for their cases. These religious symbols were not chosen at random. Alexandra Lozano called herself “The lawyer of miracles,” an effective marketing strategy that drew hundreds of anxious undocumented immigrants living in the shadows to her law office. “I fix cases that are supposedly impossible to win,” Lozano promised in a Facebook video. A phrase that now rings hollow.

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With the latest exchanges of fire between the United States and Iran, the war in the Persian Gulf and its fragile ceasefire — marked by increasingly serious skirmishes — has entered a new phase, the most dangerous yet, raising the prospect of a return to hostilities. While the United States attacked Iranian targets for the second consecutive night, the Iranian General Staff has once again announced the complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and the Revolutionary Guard Corps has warned that Iranian troops will respond “decisively” to any attack by the adversary. President Donald Trump has threatened attacks may continue on Thursday if Tehran does not accept his conditions for peace.

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Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court dealt a severe blow to Black and Latino minorities in Louisiana, issuing a ruling that weakens the protections of the Voting Rights Act. The decision also legitimizes an aggressive redistricting effort in favor of the Republican Party that will dilute Black electoral power across the South, and by its broad reach, it strikes Latino voters equally. Days later, in Virginia, the state Supreme Court struck down a redistricting plan approved just weeks earlier by referendum, nullifying an electoral map redesign that would have allowed Democrats to gain seats through multiracial coalitions. Until then, recapturing the House of Representatives in November’s midterms had seemed almost certain. Now, no one is so sure.

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Three U.S. Tomahawk missiles forever changed the lives of dozens of families who, on a seemingly ordinary morning in late February, sent their children to the Shajarah Tayyebeh school in Minab, a city in southern Iran near the Persian Gulf. What followed was the deadliest attack of the war that, according to preliminary investigations, was conducted by the United States against the Tehran regime, killing 156 people, over 100 of them children. Two and a half months later, the wound remains open in Minab.

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The Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial is once again filled with water following President Donald Trump's renovations.

Southern Lebanon — which was turned into a battleground between Israel and the pro‑Iranian militia Hezbollah in 2023 — has suffered a new wave of devastation since February 28, when the Israeli and U.S. governments declared war on Iran and Hezbollah once again took up arms in solidarity with its ally. Israel then shifted its focus from Iran to striking Lebanon, intensifying both its military offensive and its occupation of the neighboring country.

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Rapper Vanilla Ice on Thursday said that he hopes he's able to perform at President Trump’s upcoming rally in Washington, one of several events scheduled to mark America’s 250th birthday. The rally was announced after multiple artists withdrew from a planned concert at Trump’s “Great American State Fair.” Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Robert...

Javier Milei’s government announced Wednesday the signing of an agreement with the United States to strengthen “its surveillance and control capabilities in the South Atlantic,” according to an official statement. The deal runs for five years and means, on one hand, a U.S. contribution of technology to modernize the South American country’s naval equipment and, on the other, authorization for forces from U.S. Southern Command to take part in patrolling Argentina’s southern sea.

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Talks to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz appear, for the first time in three months, to be moderately on track. At least that is the impression conveyed by public statements and leaks from both sides: water is beginning to fill the deep negotiating well, which until now had been practically dry.

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In just two days, several artists who had been announced for the Great American State Fair—a festival organized by Freedom 250, an initiative backed by the Trump administration—have withdrawn from the lineup after claiming they were unaware of the event’s political ties. The fair, scheduled for June 25 through July 10 on the National Mall in the nation’s capital, was billed as a massive celebration of American identity, featuring concerts, rodeos, amusement rides, livestock competitions, military exhibitions, and fireworks displays. It was also part of the extensive calendar of celebrations promoted by President Donald Trump leading up to the 250th anniversary of American independence in 2026.

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Since his return to the White House, Donald Trump has put into practice that old maxim that it’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission — except that the president of the United States never apologizes. The order issued on Friday by a federal judge in Washington to remove the Republican’s name from the Kennedy Center (KC), the capital’s major center of music and opera that Trump renamed without permission, has left the cultural institution in a state of uncertainty after more than a year of political meddling from the White House.

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