A tiny, mismanaged island remade hemispheres for decades. Now it is dying. The myth, unfortunately, will outlast the wreckage ...

Behind the absurdity were real geopolitical stakes: the Bay of Pigs, Soviet alliances, and a superpower unwilling to accept a communist stronghold 90 miles from Florida. But execution after execution ...

The indictment against Raul Castro, filed in federal court in Miami, charges him with one count of conspiracy to kill U.S.

These pictures of John F. Kennedy, from his family life to his time in the White House, capture a rarely seen side of JFK.

U.S. military intelligence-gathering flights are surging off the coast of Cuba, notable for the suddenness of their ...

The U.S. blockade of Iran continues amid an uncertain round of peace negotiations, while Congress wrestles with the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown and the looming lapse of a key ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — In 1961, Thomas “Pete” Ray and other Alabama Airmen were shot down and killed during the secret Bay of Pigs mission in Cuba. Gov. Kay Ivey signs bills enhancing benefits for ...

MIAMI — In April 1961, the United States made a daring attempt to liberate Cuba in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. About 1,500 Cuban exiles, backed by the CIA, launched the military operation. But it failed ...

Eduardo Zayas Bazán was one of the first members of Brigade 2506 to open fire when he landed on a southern Cuba beach on April 17, 1961. He was 25 and part of a group of determined Cuban exiles intent ...

MIAMI (AP) — Manuel Portuondo was still a teenager in 1960 when his family, like thousands of others, fled Cuba for Miami, following the culmination of the Cuban Revolution a year earlier. Soon after, ...