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Pope Leo XIV’s Creole heritage highlights complex history of racism and the church in America

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in…

John McCarthy May 11, 2025

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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to end humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from four countries, setting them up…

John McCarthy May 9, 2025

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Cuban mother deported from US pleads with Trump to reunite with her family

HAVANA (AP) — Ten times a day for the past two weeks, Heidy Sánchez has made the same two-block trek from her parents’ home in Havana looking for an internet signal to…

John McCarthy May 8, 2025

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We’ve deported nursing mother to Cuba, child with cancer goes to Honduras. America, wake up

Somebody please explain to me why a mother of a nursing baby, whose husband is a U.S. citizen, was snatched from her family and sent back to Cuba. Or why…

John McCarthy May 2, 2025

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Lawsuit says migrants endure isolation and intimidation at US’ Guantanamo detention center

HAVANA (AP) — Immigration and civil rights advocates have renewed concerns that immigrants detained at Guantanamo Bay are being held in extreme isolation, cut off from meaningful access to legal…

John McCarthy April 27, 2025

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Tampa woman deported to Cuba gets separated from one-year-old and U.S. citizen husband

TAMPA (Miami Herald) — A Cuban woman living in Tampa who came to the United States in 2019 and is married to a U.S. citizen was abruptly detained by immigration…

John McCarthy April 26, 2025

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Leaked documents show Cuban military sitting on billions of dollars amid humanitarian crisis

HAVANA (MH) — Even as Cubans have been dying because of shortages of medicines and supplies at hospitals, and the government claims it doesn’t have the money to buy them…

John McCarthy April 10, 2025

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Mysterious underwater ‘pyramid’ believed to be 12,000 years old reshapes history

TAIPEI CITY (DM) A "sunken pyramid" near Taiwan may rewrite everything we thought we knew about the ancient world. Sitting just 82 feet below sea level near the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, a…

John McCarthy April 8, 2025

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Trump’s mass deportations are not just cruel, but will badly hurt Miami’s economy

MIAMI — What irony! Miami’s Venezuelan, Cuban and Nicaraguan exile communities, who have been among President Trump’s most fervent supporters, are now among the biggest victims of his mass deportations.…

John McCarthy March 30, 2025

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Rubio to discuss with Jamaica Cuban doctor program after US visa threats

KINGSTON (Reuters) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Jamaica and the U.S. will discuss the Cuban doctors helping the Caribbean island's health system to better understand the…

John McCarthy March 29, 2025