HAVANA (AP) — Raul Castro turned over Cuba’s presidency Thursday to a 57-year-old successor he said would hold power until 2031, a plan that would place the state the Castro brothers founded and ruled ...

HAVANA, Cuba -- A 57-year-old bureaucrat replaced Raul Castro as the president of Cuba on Thursday, launching a new political era as a government led by a single family for six decades tries to ensure ...

Raul Castro, who stepped down Thursday as Cuba's president, lived most of his life in the shadow of his iconic brother Fidel. But after taking over in 2006 he steered the island on a path of radical ...

SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) — After a week of national mourning that reached near-religious peaks of adulation, Cuban President Raul Castro announced Saturday that his government would prohibit the naming of ...

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Raul Castro was marking his 83rd birthday privately Tuesday, a milestone that passed without fanfare but served as a reminder that his revolutionary generation’s time in ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that after the U.S. captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, Cuba’s communist regime may be on the way out. “There’s no way that the communist ...

HAVANA (AP) – Angela Castro, the eldest sister of Cuban revolutionary leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, has died following a long illness, another sibling who lives in exile confirmed Wednesday. At 88, ...

HAVANA -- When Kevin Kiermaier slid into home for the Tampa Bay Rays' first run of the day, President Barack Obama flung his arms wide to signal "safe." Then he turned to his left and shook the hand ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Raul Castro, Cuba's likely new leader after his ailing brother Fidel Castro bowed out on Tuesday, is a pragmatist more concerned with putting food on Cuban tables than spreading ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro and his army are running Cuba like a "military corporation" and former leader Fidel Castro maintains a powerful voice on the board, a Cuba expert says in ...