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A digital billboard flashes an a message reading "Traitors, to immigrants, to Miami-Dade, to the American dream," alongside pictures of Florida politicians with roots in Cuba, including from left, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and U.S. Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Gimenez, and Mario Diaz-Balart, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Medley, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

3 House Republicans from Florida with Cuban roots carefully navigate Trump’s immigration policies

Three House Republicans from Florida with Cuban roots are carefully navigating President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

Customers watch as a robot arrives with their food at Dona Alicia restaurant in Havana, Wednesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A restaurant in Havana defies Cuba’s tech struggles with digital menus and a robot waitress

Los Angeles Angels' Yoan Moncada (5) and Jorge Soler walk to the dugout during the second inning of a spring training baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Cuba had record 26 players on opening-day MLB rosters and Japan had 12 for its most since 2012

A person walks past a pride flag at Casa Frida, a shelter that supports LGBTQ+ migrants, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

How a shelter hit by Trump’s aid cuts protects LGBTQ migrants in Mexico

This Nov. 22, 1963 file photo shows President John F. Kennedy riding in motorcade with first lady Jacqueline Kenndy in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo, file)

The release of a 1961 plan to break up the CIA revives an old conspiracy theory about who killed JFK

Robot waiter in a restaurant in Havana attracts customers and trends online

Even as Cuba continues to grapple with power outages, one restaurant in Havana made a bold decision to embrace the 21st century technology and automate. (AP video shot by Ariel Fernández and Milexsy Durán)

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In Cuba, transgender men’s soccer team kicks off, marking International Transgender Day of Visibility

Cuba makes agricultural land available to foreign company for first time since revolution

With fewer boats Cuba’s fishermen take to the sea in floating rafts to land their catch

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Cuban woman gets 7 1/2 years in prison for human smuggling conspiracy that led to 16 deaths

In this Aug. 29, 2021, file photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, a flag flies at half-staff as seen from Camp Justice in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Pentagon reviews plans to cut troops handling migrants at Guantanamo by as much as half

This Nov. 22, 1963 file photo shows President John F. Kennedy riding in motorcade with first lady Jacqueline Kenndy in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo, file)

Newly released JFK assassination files reveal more about CIA but don’t yet point to conspiracies

Jhoan Bastidas gives an interview at his father's house in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, after being deported from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. (AP Photo/Juan Arraez)

After a stint in Guantanamo Bay, a Venezuelan deported from the US adjusts to his homeland

A street vendor walks along the Malecon looking for customers during a general blackout in Havana, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Electricity gradually returns to Cuba after substation failure left millions in the dark

A classic American car with tourists is driven at sunset along the Malecon during a general blackout in Havana, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba suffers major power outage after substation failure leaves millions without electricity

A resident walks on a street during a general blackout in Havana, Cuba, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba suffers another massive power outage leaving millions in the dark

In this Aug. 29, 2021, file photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, a flag flies at half-staff as seen from Camp Justice in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US transfers immigrants out of Guantanamo Bay to Louisiana as court weighs legality

Cuban doctors arrive at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, June 8, 2020, after traveling to Italy to help with the COVID-19 emergency response. (Ismael Francisco/Pool via AP, File)

Caribbean leaders oppose US policy targeting Cuban medical missions, saying they’re critical

In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, the Office of Military Commissions building used for Periodic Review Board hearings stands, on April 18, 2019, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Immigration officials defend authority to hold migrants at Guantanamo Bay

Immigrants seeking asylum walk at the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center, Aug. 23, 2019, in Dilley, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Privately run immigration detention center that previously held families in Texas will reopen

Former Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart speaks while joined by his brother U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., center, and U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., right, as they discuss their views on the opening of the American embassy in Havana, during a news conference, Aug. 12, 2015, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Former US Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, a champion of democracy in Cuba, dies at 70

In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, flags fly at half-staff at Camp Justice, Aug. 29, 2021, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Attorneys are suing to keep 10 migrants out of Guantanamo Bay as others say they were abused there

Artisans Adrian Moran, left, and Ariel Sanchez, the creators of Clave Humidors, pose with one o their cigar humidifiers during the XXV Cigar Festival at Convention Palace in Havana, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba’s cigar fair showcases humidors as the new object of desire

In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, the Office of Military Commissions building used for Periodic Review Board hearings stands, on April 18, 2019, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US deports immigrants to Venezuela after judge blocked transfer to Guantanamo Bay

In this April 17, 2019, photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

ACLU sues for access to migrants flown to Guantanamo this month

President Donald Trump, from right, speaks to reporters accompanied by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Burgum's wife Kathryn Burgum, aboard Air Force One where Trump signed a proclamation declaring Feb. 9 Gulf of America Day, as he travels from West Palm Beach, Fla. to New Orleans, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Apple changes Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on maps

Cardinal Michael Czerny meets with journalists at the Vatican press hall, in Rome, on March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Vatican charity says Trump administration’s gutting of USAID is ‘reckless’ and could kill millions

In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, the Office of Military Commissions building used for Periodic Review Board hearings stands, on April 18, 2019, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Court grants request to block detained Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to Guantanamo

The Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Federal prisons being used to detain people arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown

In this April 17, 2019, photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

First military flight lands in Guantanamo Bay with migrants deported from the US

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters next to Air Force One after arriving back at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump’s foreign aid freeze could prove to be a boon for the world’s authoritarian strongmen

President Donald Trump listens as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pentagon prepares to deploy 1,000 more troops to bolster Trump’s immigration crackdown

In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, a building in Cuba carries the Spanish message "Republic of Cuba. Free American Territory," behind a gate marking the border with the U.S. Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, June 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

What to know about Guantánamo Bay, the base where Trump will send ‘criminal aliens’

President Donald Trump holds the document after signing the Laken Riley Act during an event in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

While signing Laken Riley Act, Trump says he’ll send ‘worst criminal aliens’ to Guantanamo

CNN's Jim Acosta speaks to journalists on the North Lawn upon returning back to the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

CNN’s Jim Acosta, an irritant to Trump, says he’s quitting rather than take a late-night time slot

A boat is seen on the Susitna River near Talkeetna, Alaska, on Sunday, June 13, 2021, with Denali in the background. Denali, the tallest mountain on the North American continent, is located about 60 miles northwest of Talkeetna. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Google to change map names for Gulf of Mexico and Denali when US updates them based on Trump order

People walk past the Selection La Habana new hotel, managed by Spanish chain Iberostar, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A new luxury hotel towers over Havana as Cuba’s economic troubles mount and tourism plummets

Cuban woman pleads guilty to human smuggling conspiracy that led to 16 deaths

Peter Bellerby, the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, holds a globe at a studio in London, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Gulf of Whatnow? Trump’s geographic renaming plans leave mapmakers pondering what to do next