Cuba

The Rolling Stones announced Tuesday that the group will play a free concert in Havana on March 25, becoming the most famous act to play Cuba since its 1959 revolution.

U.S. officials say the Pentagon's long-awaited plan to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer the remaining detainees to a facility in the United States calls for up to $475 million in construction costs that would ultimately be offset by as much as $180 million per year in operating cost savings.

He is charged with two conspiracy counts that revolve around current Seattle Mariners outfielder Leonys Martin, a Cuban who previously played for the Texas Rangers.

Sen. Bob Menendez has lashed out at President Barack Obama's decision to go to Cuba.

The rights group is asking the Defense Department to investigate claims by lawyers for Mustafa al-Hawsawi that he is receiving inadequate medical treatment at the U.S. base in Cuba.

Another politician who wanted to express their displeasure with the Cuba trip, was West New York Mayor Felix Roque. Roque, who came from Cuba when he was 11 years old, says he came to the U.S. because of the oppressive regime.

Recently 10 NJ legislators took a trip to Cuba and since, there have been other NJ lawmakers who have condemned the trip. One of legislators who took the trip, as well as two NJ legislators opposed to the trip, joined me to discuss the venture.

Ten prisoners from Yemen who were held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been released and sent to the Middle Eastern nation of Oman for resettlement, officials said Thursday, portraying it as a significant milestone in the long-stalled effort to shutter the detention center.

The inert missile did not contain any explosives, the Journal reported, but there are concerns that Cuba could share the technology with potential U.S. adversaries like North Korea or Russia.

The United States and Cuba are close to an agreement on restoring regularly scheduled, commercial flights between the countries, a senior American diplomat said Tuesday, as talks on the matter were ongoing.