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FILE In this file photo taken from video, Belarus Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya speaks during a zoom interview with the Associated Press in Japan, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. A feud between Tsimanouskaya and team officials that prompted her to seek refuge in Poland has again cast a spotlight on the repressive environment in the ex-Soviet nation, where authorities have unleashed a relentless crackdown on dissent. (AP Photo/Daniel Kozin, File)
EXPLAINER: What happens when Olympics and politics collide?

By Graham Dunbar Aug. 04, 2021 04:11 AM EDT

A young migrant girl from Venezuela stands with her mother as they wait with Border Patrol after turning themselves in after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. Record numbers of Venezuelans are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as overall migration swells. They're fleeing turmoil in the country with the world's largest oil reserves and pandemic-induced pain across South America. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Driven by pandemic, Venezuelans uproot again to come to US

By Joshua Goodman Jun. 28, 2021 01:01 AM EDT

Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, addresses the U.N. General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (Eskinder Debebe/United Nations via AP)
US votes against UN resolution condemning US embargo on Cuba

By Edith M. Lederer Jun. 23, 2021 03:27 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: U.S.

By The Associated Press Jun. 09, 2021 01:26 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: June 8 The Montreal Gazette on anti-Muslim hatred in...

Today in History

By The Associated Press May. 12, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Wednesday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2021. There are 233 days left in the year. Today’s...

Raul Castro, first secretary of the Communist Party and former president, attends the VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba's opening session, at the Convention Palace in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 16, 2021. (Ariel Ley Royero/ACN via AP)
Era ends as Raul Castro steps down as Communist Party chief

By Andrea Rodríguez Apr. 17, 2021 12:04 AM EDT

Raul Castro, first secretary of the Communist Party and former president, attends the VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba's opening session, at the Convention Palace in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 16, 2021. (Ariel Ley Royero/ACN via AP)
Raul Castro resigns as Communist chief, ending era in Cuba

By Andrea Rodríguez Apr. 16, 2021 03:26 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 16, 2016 file photo, delegates attend a Cuban Communist Party Congress in Havana, Cuba. The VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, between April 16 and 19, 2021, could go down in history as the last with a member of the Castro family at the head, if Raul Castro fulfills his announcement to say goodbye as Secretary General.(Ismael Francisco/Cubadebate via AP File)
A retiring Castro to bring younger face to Cuba's communists

By Andrea Rodriguez And Joshua Goodman Apr. 15, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

Guillermo Lasso, presidential candidate of Creating Opportunities party, CREO, celebrates after a presidential runoff election at his campaign headquarters in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Sunday, April 11, 2021. With most of the votes counted Lasso, a former banker, had a lead over economist Andres Arauz, a protege of former President Rafael Correa.(AP Photo/Angel Dejesus)
Ecuador goes with conservative banker in presidential vote

By Regina Garcia Cano And Gonzalo Solano Apr. 11, 2021 12:00 AM EDT

Presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso, representing the Creating Opportunities party or CREO, flashes a thumbs up at a campaign rally in Cayambe, Ecuador, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Lasso, a former banker, and rival Andres Arauz, a protege of former president Rafael Correa, will compete in a second-round vote this coming Sunday, April 11. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Ecuador, Peru to elect presidents amid strengthened pandemic

By Regina Garcia Cano And Mauricio Muñoz Apr. 09, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

Dr. Amy Acton roils US Senate race by saying she won't run

By Mark Gillispie And Julie Carr Smyth Apr. 06, 2021 11:48 AM EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Dr. Amy Acton, the former state health director whose entry into the U.S. Senate race in Ohio had been highly anticipated, said Tuesday...

Today in History

By The Associated Press Feb. 19, 2021 12:00 AM EST
Today in History Today is Friday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2021. There are 315 days left in the year. Today’s...

Presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso, representing the Creating Opportunities party or CREO, flashes a thumbs up after attending an event with rival Yaku Perez, of the Pachakutik political party, in which both are asking for a ballot recount of Sunday's election, in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. It remains undecided which of the two has the votes to advance to the run-off race in April to face frontrunner Andres Arauz. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Questions abound as Ecuador heads to presidential runoff

By Gonzalo Solano And Regina Garcia Cano Feb. 17, 2021 12:01 AM EST

A person takes a flyer with COVID-19 information for vaccination as people visit the community center Mixteca during the coronavirus pandemic, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. From elderly Cuban Americans in Florida to farmworkers in California, Latinos face daunting barriers like fear, language and a lack of education and access as the COVID-19 vaccines roll out, creating risks for public health as the virus mutates and spreads. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
Latinos face barriers like fear, language in getting vaccine

By Gisela Salomon, Claudia Torrens And Anita Snow Feb. 16, 2021 09:27 AM EST

Accompanied by his mother, left, and wearing a mask to curb the spread of COVID-19, Yaku Perez, presidential candidate representing the Indigenous party Pachakutik, casts his ballot for president during general elections in Tarqui, Ecuador, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Marcelo Suquilanda)
Divided Ecuador heads to presidential runoff ballot in April

By Gonzalo Solano And Regina Garcia Cano Feb. 08, 2021 12:28 AM EST

Esperanza-UNES- alliance party presidential candidate Andres Arauz, left, and his running mate Carlos Rabascall celebrate as they wait for the official results to know if they have reached the necessary percentage to win in the first electoral round, in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Leftist leads in early returns for Ecuador presidential vote

By Gonzalo Solano And Regina Garcia Cano Feb. 07, 2021 12:08 AM EST

FILE - In this April 2, 2020, file photo, a person on a stretcher is removed from Carnival's Holland America cruise ship Zaandam at Port Everglades during the new coronavirus pandemic in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Several major cruise lines have canceled trips until the first quarter of 2021. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
Florida's 2020 dominated by virus, economy and election

By Terry Spencer Dec. 27, 2020 01:57 PM EST

In this Oct. 10, 2020, a caravan in favor of President Trump drives down the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. Florida's Cuban American voters remain a bright spot in Trump's effort to retain his winning coalition from 2016. Polls show his strong support from these key voters may even be growing to include the younger Cuban Americans that Democrats once considered their best hope of breaking the GOP's hold.  (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP)
With salsa, caravans, Cubans make last push to reelect Trump

By Adriana Gomez Licon Oct. 30, 2020 01:55 PM EDT

Dancers perform as Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden watches during a visit Little Haiti Cultural Complex, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Biden aims to expand map as Trump recovers from coronavirus

By Will Weissert And Bill Barrow Oct. 05, 2020 05:53 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Georgia

By The Associated Press Sep. 30, 2020 01:19 PM EDT
Recent editorials from Georgia newspapers: ___ Sept. 30 The Daily Citizen-News on the presidential...

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