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The delivery of a Chinese-built, Spanish-backed offshore oil rig to Cuban waters has been delayed until summer. But when drilling does begin 90 miles off the Florida coast, it could mean a host of problems -- and opportunities -- on the energy and the political fronts.

Cuba's government plans to lay off nearly 500,000 workers in the biggest economic changes the country has seen in decades.

The jury found ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich guilty of lying to the FBI but deadlocked on the 23 other charges. Because of one hold-out juror, Blagojevich goes free on charges including allegedly selling the President's Senate seat.

Director Robert Pietri found the perfect location for his independent film production. It allowed him to shoot at about one-fifth the cost, and the local government was cooperative. The location: Cuba, the new shoestring-budget cinema paradise. At least it was for Pietri, a 42-year-old New York...

The Treasury Department is relaxing rules for Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other companies, letting them provide social networking, email, and other web services to citizens in Iran, Sudan, and Cuba, in an effort to help open closed regimes.

If America's spy satellites are trained on Cuba at this very moment, they're likely to reveal local tourism officials puffing away on celebratory Cohibas. The reason? While tourism is down big-time across the rest of the Caribbean, tourist arrivals to the Communist isle are up 3.1 percent, year to...

A cigar may be just a cigar sometimes, but when's a Cohiba a Cohiba? Any devotee of the leaf is aware of the existence of parallel brands. A Montecristo in Manhattan is not the same as a Montecristo in Havana. Nearly five decades of isolation have led to two separate worlds, and an end to the Cuban...

And I thought the United States had it bad with the recession.The global economic crisis is hitting Cuba so hard that it is running out of toilet paper and may not get more until the end of the year, according to a Reuters story quoting officials from state-run companies.Cuba imports toilet paper...

In what is believed to be the first bilingual announcement ever made in the White House Press Room, the Obama administration unveiled a sweeping change in the United States' relationship with Cuba. Cuban-Americans are now allowed to send unlimited amounts of money to the island, and can travel...

As the Obama administration begins the first, tentative steps toward opening relations with Cuba, it's worth wondering what, exactly that change will mean for American tourists. In the short run, travel will be limited to Cuban-American citizens, although the White House's decision to encourage...