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Read CNN’s Cuba Fast Facts to learn more about this communist country located in the Caribbean Sea, approximately 90 miles south of Florida.

“As of this moment, we know absolutely nothing about how they’re doing and how they’re being treated. We’re still in the same suffering,” Milena Africano, whose husband is among the detained, said after the meeting.

Six weeks after voters headed to the polls in Peru, former schoolteacher and union leader Pedro Castillo has been formally declared the country’s President-elect. He will be sworn in on July 28, the bicentennial of Peruvian independence, election authorities announced Monday.

Read CNN’s Guantánamo Bay Naval Station Fast Facts and learn more about its detention facility, nicknamed “Gitmo.”

Corruption inquiries, a spreading Covid-19 crisis, plunging popularity and persistent bouts of the hiccups. Brazil’s scandal-plagued President Jair Bolsonaro just can’t seem to catch a break ahead of presidential elections next year.

View CNN’s Fast Facts on the life of Fidel Castro and learn about the former Cuban leader.

As Haiti’s elite lay their assassinated president to rest, many terrified residents in Port-au-Prince have far more pressing issues on their minds as gang violence brutalizes the capital.

Indigenous leader and advocate Mary Simon has been installed as Canada’s governor general.

There was no mistaking the meaning in last week’s anonymous text message: Do what we say or die.

An Ecuadorian court on Monday ruled in favor of revoking the citizenship of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a judgment published by the Judicial Branch of Ecuador.

Following the most widespread protests since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, Cubans are now bracing themselves for a new aftershock poised to shake the communist-run island: Mass trials of those who dared to take to the streets calling for change.

Mrs. Moise was found bleeding on the floor next to the body of her husband, Jovenel Moise, on July 7. But she survived the mysterious attack — and is now lighting a fire under the search to bring the killers to justice.

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Anti-government activists in Cuba say that more than 100 people have been arrested or are missing on the island following widespread protests on Sunday.

The Yanomami people are battling an old and elusive enemy — one they haven’t seen since the 1980s.

After a lengthy power struggle that has pitched Haiti’s political landscape into uncertainty, the country’s acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph has agreed to step down and hand power to his rival Ariel Henry, according to a top government official.

Canada could start allowing fully vaccinated US citizens and permanent residents on non-essential travel into the country by mid August, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Christian Sanon, the Haitian-American doctor accused by authorities of plotting the assassination of Haiti’s President, spent months planning a foray into national politics in the country, holding weekly Zoom meetings through early this year with academics and business leaders, and at one point meeting with the man who allegedly supplied the mercenaries behind the killing, according to a person at the meeting.

The first forensic evidence that unmarked graves in their hundreds were located at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School was a juvenile rib bone and tooth found beneath the apple orchard.

Amid their country’s national crisis, Haitian CNN Heroes are stepping up to keep the most vulnerable — children and women — safe. And they hope this moment points Haiti toward a better future.

Cuba announced on Wednesday it was temporarily lifting restrictions on travelers bringing food, medicines and hygiene products into the country in an apparent acknowledgment of demands from anti-government demonstrators.

Parts of the Amazon rainforest are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, raising fears of the potentially devastating impact on its fragile ecosystems and a further worsening of the climate crisis, according to a new study.

The head of security at Haiti’s presidential residence has been placed in police custody, according to a close associate, as authorities continue to investigate the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will be transferred to a hospital in Sao Paulo for additional tests to determine whether he needs emergency surgery, according to Brazil’s Special Secretariat for Social Communication.

Colombia’s National Police chief has claimed that former Haitian Justice Ministry official Joseph Felix Badio was a key player in the assassination of Haiti’s president.

As Haitians woke up last week to the news their President had been brutally killed, an unidentified man called into a local radio station and unleashed a strange monologue while live on air.

Florida has taken a a step to halt investment of state resources in the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s over its decision to stop selling ice cream in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and contested east Jerusalem

Firefighters have gained more control over a Hawaii wildfire that forced thousands of people to evacuate over the weekend and destroyed at least two homes on the Big Island

It was not immediately clear how many shots were fired or if anyone was injured or killed.

Police in Florida identified the boyfriend of a mother who was shot and killed in front of her two children as the suspect in her death, warning on Monday that he is considered armed and dangerous.

The man suspected of fatally shooting a 17-year-old in a road rage incident on July 6 has turned himself in to police, authorities said Monday.

The divorce of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates has been finalized

JetBlue is staying in the Big Apple

Meat processer Tyson Foods will require all of its U.S. employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, becoming one of the first major employer of frontline workers to so amid a resurgence of the virus

Authorities say a gunman shot and wounded three people at a Tennessee business and was later fatally shot by police

The murders of two women in Atlanta-area parks last week sparked rumors on social media that a serial killer was on the loose – claims that police have flatly refuted – as authorities continue the hunt for suspects in both cases.

The meeting came as the White House faced an uproar from progressive Democrats, who fault the administration for not finding a way to extend the eviction ban.

The Pentagon entered into a lockdown due to a “shooting event” outside the building, police confirmed to Fox News.

A preliminary report released Monday details how three passengers were able to radio for help and crash-land a hot-air balloon without injury in July, after their pilot and a fourth passenger were thrown overboard by the impact of an initial crash and bounce back to the sky.

A memorial Mass has been held in northern Michigan for the last remaining survivor of a Lake Michigan shipwreck that killed 33 people in 1958

Attorney general’s investigation concludes that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women

The effort follows the unionization of several 2020 Democratic presidential campaigns, and will make the D.N.C. the first national party group to have an organized work force.

Ryan Meehan is one of more than 22,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel working to extinguish the flames of some of America’s biggest wildfires.

Americans have more debt than ever before.

Waterspouts usually occur in the region from August through October, when the water of the Great Lakes is near its warmest, meteorologists said.

After the expiration of the moratorium over the weekend, the White House called on state and local governments to protect renters and sought to speed the flow of federal aid.

The Biden administration, in consultation with tenants’ groups, is considering a range of limited actions to blunt the impact of the expiration.

Gov. Jared Polis said he would issue a state of emergency declaration.

A pair of English researchers found that New Zealand is best poised to stay up and running as climate change continues to wreak global havoc. Other scientists found flaws in their model.

Federal prosecutors are seeking to retry a former University of Tennessee researcher accused of hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving research grants from NASA

In the highest court decision so far when it comes to college immunization mandates, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that Indiana University can proceed with its plan to require students and employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning to campus for the fall semester.

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Authorities say the suspect in the killing of three people in rural South Carolina hopped on a plane after the shootings and was arrested hours later at a Florida hotel

The AP’s board of directors has appointed chief revenue officer Daisy Veerasingham as the news cooperative’s new president and CEO

President Donald J. Trump said that he would not sue to keep six former officials from testifying, according to letters sent to them on Monday by his lawyer.

A group backed by undisclosed donors is targeting three Democratic prosecutors in Northern Virginia for recall campaigns in a test of what could be a national strategy in 2022.

A new documentary follows the complicated legal fight of a civil rights case in 1960s Louisiana that made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tuesday: Introducing the new voice of the newsletter. Plus, Bay Area counties instate a universal indoor masking requirement.

PepsiCo will sell Tropicana and other juices to a private equity firm in a $3.3 billion deal

A Trump-appointed appeals court judge criticized critical race theory in a concurrence he penned last week that challenged the viability of disparate impact theory as a legal claim in a racial bias case, according to a report.

Five police officers in Miami Beach, Fla., were charged Monday for allegedly using excessive force against two Black men in a hotel lobby about a week ago as prosecutors say body camera and surveillance footage show cops kicking a handcuffed man on the ground – before tackling another bystander who attempted to record the incident on his cellphone.

Firefighters gained more control over a wildfire in Hawaii that forced thousands of people to evacuate over the weekend and destroyed at least two homes on the Big Island, but officials warned that strong winds will return on Tuesday, raising the danger again.

Dozens of groups criticized what they see as a misguided White House strategy that focuses on organizing instead of federal legislation.

The man, who was one of six survivors of the capsizing that killed 13 people, said at a Coast Guard hearing that he broke a window with a fire extinguisher and was swept into sea.

A $1,000 reward is now being offered in the search for an “armed and dangerous” man in Texas accused of shooting and killing two horses during a burglary at a rural residence.

When CNN knocked on her door, Dasha Kelly panicked, thinking the eviction she’s been dreading was finally at hand.

A photograph has emerged of a man being duct-taped to a seat on a Frontier Airlines flight after he allegedly punched a male flight attendant and inappropriately touched two female ones, reports say.

Wall Street isn’t convinced that the world’s biggest oil firms can successfully overhaul their businesses as the climate crisis accelerates.

Video out of Detroit shows a police officer punching a man so hard he was knocked out and fell to the ground.

Officials in the border city of El Paso are unveiling a garden meant to bring healing two years after a gunman targeting Latinos opened fire at a Walmart, killing 23 people in an attack that stunned the U.S. and Mexico

Parts of the Southwest and the Rockies are getting rain with the risk of flooding as daily thunderstorms continue producing heavy downpours this week.

PepsiCo has struck a deal with private equity firm PAI Partners to sell the Tropicana, Naked and other juice brands in North America

Gymnast Rachael Denhollander is one of many people who can no longer watch the Olympics with casual enjoyment.

Americans’ optimism about the coronavirus pandemic getting better has plummeted as threat of the delta variant continues.

PepsiCo to sell Tropicana, other juice brands, in exchange for $3.3 billion in pretax proceeds

Classrooms are opening their doors to a different pandemic. Here is how to think about risk.

Voting in Seattle’s mayoral primary opens Tuesday, and voters living in the city plagued by the “CHOP” or “CHAZ” protest zone last summer must now decide among 15 candidates, including at least one city council member who supported cries to “defund the police.” 

The bill falls short of the transformational climate measures that President Biden has requested.

Fresnillo feels to residents overrun by violence and paralyzed by fear, a testament to the failure of Mexico’s government to tackle organized crime.

A California mother died Friday just days after she was shot in front of her 6-year-old daughter, in what police said may be a case of mistaken identity.

A man suspected of killing three people and injuring a child in a shooting in South Carolina on Monday has been arrested in Florida following a manhunt, authorities said Tuesday.

Prosecutors say five Florida police officers are being charged with battery connected to the violent arrests of two Black men last week

An armed robbery suspect who was shot by an officer in Georgia on Monday afternoon before being captured by police has been linked to a previous armed robbery of a Brinks truck, according to reports.

The legislature for Nassau County, New York, approved a bill Monday that says anyone who harasses or injures a first responder — which includes police officers — can be fined up to $50,000 while giving first responders the ability to sue the person directly.

Five Miami Beach police officers are facing criminal charges, accused of using excessive force during the arrests of two men at a local hotel last week.

Two primary contests for special elections, one in a heavily Democratic district and one in a Republican-friendly area, will provide some clues as to where the parties are headed.

Today in History Today is Tuesday, Aug. 3, the 215th day of 2021. There are 150 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint. On this date: In 1914, Germany declared war on France at the onset of World War I. In 1949, the National Basketball Association was formed as a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League. In 1966, comedian Lenny Bruce, whose raunchy brand of satire and dark humor landed him in trouble with the law, was found dead in his Los Angeles home; he was 40. In 1972, the U.S. Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. (The U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the treaty in 2002.) In 1981, U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike, despite a warning from President Ronald Reagan they would be fired, which they were. In…

They thought the worst of the pandemic was behind them. Then a new wave of cases arrived at the I.C.U. at Providence Saint John’s Health Center.

The legislation contains $65 billion to connect rural communities and low-income urban residents who cannot afford high-speed internet service.

A preliminary report details how three passengers were able to radio for help and crash-land a hot-air balloon without injury in July, after their pilot was thrown overboard by the impact of an initial crash

The sprawling, 2,702-page bill includes historic investments in traditional projects as well as broadband expansion and funds for some climate projects.

An evolving virus and 18 months of ever-changing pandemic messaging have left Americans angry, exhausted and skeptical of public health advice.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was questioned by investigators in the state attorney general’s office for 11 hours last month as part of an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him, The New York Times reported Monday.

Four years after a white supremacist march, the Virginia city is reconsidering its housing and zoning rules.

Citing new concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, the administration will continue to rely for now on a Trump-era policy.

The United Nations is calling the Myanmar military’s extension of the state of emergency and election delay moves in the wrong direction from international calls for the restoration of democracy

Maricopa County and Dominion Voting Systems are rebuffing the latest subpoenas from Arizona’s GOP-led Senate for election materials related to the so-called audit of 2020 election ballots.

The workplace mandate gap.

Investigators say three people have been killed in a shooting in rural South Carolina

The United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution establishing a Permanent Forum of People of African Descent to provide expert advice on addressing the challenges of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance

Oregon officials believe a $90 million settlement with the parent company of Victoria’s Secret guarantees an end to its culture of harassment and fear

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina announced Monday that he has tested positive for Covid-19 despite being vaccinated and has experienced “flu-like symptoms,” but said that he now has only “mild symptoms” and is very glad he had been vaccinated because “without vaccination I am certain I would not feel as well as I do now.”

San Francisco’s iconic cable cars were rolling and ringing their bells on the city’s hills again Monday after being sidelined for 16 months by the pandemic

A Tennessee state trooper has testified that he saw his former colleague on the force yank the mask off a protester last summer during the COVID-19 pandemic The testimony refutes the ex-officer’s denial

“We’re going to fight this tooth and nail,” said a lawyer for the former president.

In a deeply polarized country, suffering an extreme health crisis, one of the few uniting beliefs is the admiration across the political spectrum for a doctor recently beatified by the Vatican.

The Black Lives Matter supporters alleged constitutional rights violations.

A mandate to wear face coverings in indoor public places is back for millions of residents — even those fully vaccinated — in the San Francisco Bay Area as the highly contagious Delta variant causes a spike in new Covid-19 cases.

Billions each year would be allocated to grants to remove lead-contaminated pipes in the nation’s schools.

Lawmakers have turned to $200 billion in unused money from previous economic relief programs that Congress approved to combat the pandemic.

The legislation directs funding toward an expansive backlog of needed repairs and aims to shore up infrastructure to withstand climate change.

With their cheeky name and rich adobo, these skewered “pregnant shrimp” rule the beaches of Puerto Vallarta and are perfect for grilling at home.

The officials, two court clerks and an investigative judge who collected evidence in President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination, are now in hiding.

Americans are trickling back to their pre-pandemic workplaces, but most offices are still largely empty. And that’s affecting local economies in a major way.

The new funding would be the largest investment in passenger rail since Amtrak was created in 1971, according to the administration.

Showers and storms will build throughout the week along the Gulf and East coasts as a cold front stalls in the Southeast.

Here is a look at the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season.

With a pandemic-forced sojourn to Buffalo and Florida now complete, Toronto’s exciting young team got a chance to experience its actual home crowd.

Emily Oster caters to a data-obsessed crowd of modern parents. But sometimes you just can’t optimize your kid.

Angry protests before and during the funeral reflected the nation’s deep divisions, a backdrop to a moment many had hoped would help mend a fractured nation. Shots were reported outside the event.

Struck by gunfire, Martine Moïse lay bleeding as the assassins who killed her husband ransacked her room. Now, she says, the F.B.I. must find the mastermind behind the attack.

As reports continue to rise of US diplomats and intelligence officials being sickened by the mysterious Havana Syndrome, inside the State Department frustration is rising among rank-and-file staffers and diplomats over what multiple officials say has been a tepid response by the department.

The athletes will join another 150 refugee students selected who were accepted to one of 80 participating institutions this fall.

Spurred by victims of Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s regime, the court has reopened an investigation into whether Banco de Chile helped the former Chilean dictator launder money.

Kisha Supernant has brought radar technology to the search for burial sites in Canada while she works to reshape her profession’s relationship with Indigenous communities.

The “Elvis of Merengue” released more than 100 albums and won six Latin Grammys. For a time, he was mayor of the capital of the Dominican Republic.

In a remarkable act of defiance, thousands of Cubans took to the streets two weeks ago and chanted “We’re not afraid!” Many are now terrified.

Scenes from the Golden State’s largest wildfire of 2021 so far

Critics challenged a study’s claim that a netlike structure found in rocks in a Canadian mountain range could be an 890-million-year-old sponge fossil.

The Trump administration desperately wanted to cut government benefits, and it had outside help to do so. But very few of its new rules held up.

Businesses such as Nike and Oracle are happy to let you work from home—just not in Colorado.

Workers in factories that produce goods for the U.S. are getting American vaccines. Officials in both countries hope the program will help reopen the border and restore their economies.

Despite promises from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada has yet to produce a plan to bring Afghan interpreters and other workers to the country.

Canada said this week that most restrictions on fully vaccinated American travelers will be lifted in early August. But the U.S. extended its border closure.

In British Columbia, researchers have undertaken a unique challenge: tracking orphan grizzly cubs, reared in a shelter, to see whether they can thrive back in the wild.

Among those facing the human rights sanctions are Cuba’s defense minister and special forces troops who swept up protesters in a wave of arrests larger than any other crackdown over the last few years, if not decades.

In the United States, this pandemic could be almost over by now. The reasons it’s still going are pretty clear.

Argentines no longer have to be identified as female or male on their national identity documents, the latest step in President Alberto Fernández’s push for gender equality.

Images of the development, training, and deployment of the first vehicle driven by humans on the surface of another world

In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building. A 14-year-old child was in the back.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez sees his new story collection, “Songs for the Flames,” as part of a thriving literary landscape in Colombia because, he said, “places in conflict produce fiction.”

Depending on where you live and your risk tolerance, vaccinated people are justified in either masking or unmasking indoors.

Once one of the world’s most powerful travel documents, the might of the United States passport has been diminished during the pandemic. With US Covid-19 cases now past the 32.4 million mark, some nations continue to view vacationers warily even as more Americans get vaccinated.

Images from one of the largest blazes so far in California’s 2021 fire season

The Trumpist wing of the GOP uses history as a bludgeon, without regard to context, logic, or proportionality.

Justice Stephen Breyer hasn’t retired yet. But filling Supreme Court seats is just one battle in a war over the judiciary—one that progressives worry they’re losing.

“Every single Christian of color who is proximate to evangelical spaces gets called everything but a child of God. And that’s just part of the work.”

The high court’s decision was overdue. It will also usher in a new world.

On July 4, 1776, the United States committed itself to a set of principles. It did not always live up to those words. But the words exerted their own power.