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Bill O'Reilly to Sean Penn: Drop dead, will ya?
Reporter's Paul Bond has a new Q&A interview up with Fox News curmudgeon Bill O'Reilly once again proving that political conservatives have a bizarre antipathy toward Hollywood celebrities. Most of the Q&A is pretty softball stuff -- with questions like...Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Entertainment, Television, Ring Lardner Jr.
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Obama Sees Positive Signs From Venezuela, Cuba
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - President Barack Obama on Sunday suggested Cuba release its political prisoners and strongly defended his highly publicized handshakes with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the end of overseas trip that he said heralded a...Tags: Prisons, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party, Justice and Rights, Barack Obama
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Cuba's surrogates
Today, Fidel Castro will fire another round in his battle with the United States that began 47 years ago when the Kennedy administration imposed an economic embargo on Cuba. Castro may be on his deathbed, but he has surrogates.
In this case, it will...Tags: Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Politics, Foreign Aid, Human Rights, Cuba
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U.S.-Cuba relations
The United States has begun a liberalization of its Cuba policy. The omnibus spending bill that President Obama signed this week not only loosens restrictions on travel to Cuba, it opens the door for more exports from the U.S. despite the 47-year-old...Tags: Bill Clinton, Foreign Aid, Politics, Cuba, Timothy Geithner
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Fidel Castro suggests his health is failing
Fidel Castro suggested today that his health is failing, saying that four years from now he doesn't expect to be following current events. In an online column titled "Reflections of Comrade Fidel," the 82-year-old Cuban leader appeared to be pondering...Tags: Defense, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Emergency Incidents, Foreign Aid, Prisons
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Reach out to Cuba
Not since Richard Nixon went to China has an intractable foreign policy issue been so ripe for resolution as U.S. relations with Cuba are today.
As with China, bilateral hostility has persisted long after the causes of the initial break have ceased to...Tags: Bill Clinton, Elections, John F. Kennedy, New York, Barack Obama
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Reporters behind bars
At least 125 journalists are being held worldwide in blatant government attempts to restrict freedom of speech, according to human rights groups, employing a form of hostage-taking in the service of censorship. Most of these are journalists arrested in...Tags: Journalism, Amnesty International, Cuba, Prisons, Politics
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Old guard in Cuba keeps reins
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersCuba's parliament signaled Sunday that the status quo of a stunted state-run economy and strained relations with the United States will persist for now as it named Raul Castro to replace his ailing brother, Fidel, as president and chose another aging...Tags: Crimes, Elections, Justice and Rights, Communist Party of China, Condoleezza Rice
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Hurricane Ike shreds central Cuba, heads for Havana
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHurricane Ike ripped through central Cuba on Monday, toppling colonial landmarks and forcing the evacuation of nearly 1 million people -- with more likely to be displaced as the powerful storm plowed toward populous Havana. Revolutionary leader Fidel...Tags: Health, Journalism, Entertainment, Barack Obama, Florida
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Semper Fidel
"I can tell you that he has recovered his fastball of 90 miles an hour," Hugo Chávez informed the world last week after meeting with Fidel Castro, adding that the Cuban president for life "has his uniform hanging near him and he's peeking at it, but he'...Tags: Defense, Crimes, Politics, Cuba, Death
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Fidel Castro gives up Cuba's presidency
South Florida Sun-SentinelAlmost half a century after seizing power in a guerrilla war, the iconic and combative Fidel Castro quietly ceded command of communist Cuba on Tuesday, ending his rule as the world's most tenured government leader. The news met with low expectations...Tags: Education, Executive Branch, Elections, Politics, University of Miami
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A new approach to Cuba
Fifty years ago, Ernesto "Che" Guevara led a column of war-steeled rebels into Havana as Fidel Castro took the city of Santiago at the other end of the island and declared a Cuban revolution. This one, Castro said, would not be like Cuba's 1898...Tags: Bill Clinton, Prisons, John F. Kennedy, Democracy, Justice and Rights
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