The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The U.S. Supreme Court won’t review Florida’s ban on using state or tuition funds for research trips to Cuba. The high court declined to take an appeal in the case on Monday. The Republican-controlled Legislature slapped the ban on public colleges and universities in 2006. It prohibits spending on [...]
(Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge in Miami has temporarily blocked Florida from enforcing a state law set to go into effect on July 1 barring companies that do business in Cuba or Syria from bidding for state and local government contracts. U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore granted a preliminary injunction on Monday evening [...]
Prominent Cuban Exile Corporate Leaders Warn of Castro’s “Cosmetic Reforms” Over a dozen former Fortune 500 senior executives and other multinational business leaders urge support for the Cuban pro-democracy movement and reaffirm their commitment to help the economic reconstruction of a free Cuba. Washington, D.C. – Prominent Cuban exile business and corporate leaders released today [...]
Under the wary eye of Cuba’s Communist authorities, opposition bloggers on Thursday kicked off a three-day event promoting Internet use to discuss the island’s problems. The “CLICK Festival” is aimed at educating Cubans on new information technologies and the use of online social networks on an island where Internet connectivity is sharply limited, organizers say. [...]
H.A.A.R.P. – The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).Its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications [...]
A House panel voted Wednesday in favor of holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, a move that inflamed partisan rancor on Capitol Hill and sets up the possibility of legal action against the attorney general himself. Holder has not yet been formally held in contempt of Congress. The full House would still need [...]
The number of undocumented Cubans who have been intercepted at sea or reached the United States this year has increased significantly. With 3 ½ months left in the fiscal year, the number has already surpassed the previous one-year period, according to U.S. government figures. From Oct. 1, 2011, until last week, 8,240 undocumented Cubans had [...]
IN LAST week’s leader on India’s economy we referred to the government as acting with Brezhnev-grade complacency. That was probably a bit too harsh. In the last few days I’ve listened to two energetic government bigwigs—officials rather than politicians—talk about the slowdown and what to do about it. Here’s what they had to say. The [...]
By DANIEL WAGNER WASHINGTON (AP) — Dutch bank ING Bank NV will pay $619 million to settle charges that it secretly moved billions of dollars through the U.S. financial system on behalf of Cuban and Iranian customers, in violation of U.S. sanctions. ING intentionally deleted information about thousands of transactions that would have linked the [...]
A review of Britain’s record on human rights was branded ‘ludicrous’ last night – for including criticisms from the governments of Iran, Russia and Cuba. The United Nations report also contains scathing assessments of the UK from other countries notorious for their wholesale denial of human rights – among them Pakistan, Belarus and the Sudan. [...]
The liberal media are finally looking into the birth certificate issue — Mitt Romney’s, that is. Reuters extensively investigated the presumptive Republican nominee’s background, and concluded that he was born on U.S. soil and qualifies as a “natural born citizen.” This follows the press corps’ relentless examination of Mr. Romney’s past: his record at Bain [...]
Facing a slew of economic bad news, President Obama said Friday the private sector is doing just fine but blamed Republicans for not helping out-of-work teachers and other public-sector employees – an analysis pounced on by GOP leaders. “The private sector is doing fine,” the president said during a White House press conference. “Where we’re [...]
Ron Paul has stopped actively campaigning in forthcoming primary contests, and after Texas everyone agrees that Romney has the nomination effectively locked up. But Ron Paul’s people are still striving to rack up as many delegates as he can at state Republican Party conventions before the Tampa . He’s continued to do it too—even after [...]
The cast bronze sculpture rests one arm on the bar. He looks ready to order another daiquiri, but in reality he’s observing, with his metal eyes, everyone who comes and goes from El Floridita. Some flash their cameras at that life-sized Hemingway statue, while others see it as something from the past, from that long-ago [...]
Cuban President Raul Castro has turned 81-years-old, exposing for another year the absence of indicators that the country’s leadership is moving quickly to prepare younger successors. Castro, who celebrated his birthday on Sunday, proposed in April 2011 to impose term limits on everyone in government including himself, but this is yet to be enacted. His retired [...]