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"Nothing will change for the Cuban people," Sen. Marco Rubio said. "Things are worse than they were before this opening. We're getting nothing in return." (Associated Press)

Marco Rubio slams Obama outreach to Cuba

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Workers use cranes to paint the Estadio Latinoamericano baseball arena in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, March 1, 2016. On the same week as the visits by Obama and The Rolling Stones, the Tampa Bay Rays are expected to play the first Major League Baseball exhibition game in Cuba since 1999, part of an extraordinary string of events in a country that spent the Cold War isolated from the United States and its allies. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Obama to attend baseball game in Cuba

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says District schools could be modeled on Cuban institutions. (Associated Press)

D.C. looks to communist Cuba for lessons to improve literacy

By Ryan M. McDermott - The Washington Times

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said attacking homelessness and affordable housing were two of her guiding priorities when creating her first budget for the city, which proposes sales tax and parking garage tax hikes, and cuts some funding to the University of D.C. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Muriel Bowser, D.C. mayor: Washington region may benefit from construction in Cuba

By Ryan M. McDermott - The Washington Times

A soldier carrying a fumigating machine enters a home as residents wait outside in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Cuban President Raul Castro announced Monday that he is dispatching soldiers to help keep the Zika virus out of Cuba, calling on the entire country to help kill the mosquito that carries the disease. Castro says Cuba has yet to report a case of Zika. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Cuba sending 9,000 soldiers to fight Zika virus

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

President Barack Obama talks with Cuban President Raul Castro before a bilateral meeting, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Obama reignites policy fight with Cuba trip

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘JFK’s Forgotten Crisis’

By Joseph Goulden

President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shake hands before a bilateral meeting Sept. 29, 2015, at the United Nations headquarters. (Associated Press)

Obama to visit Cuba within next month: report

By Victor Morton and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference in Washington on Dec. 15, 2015. (Associated Press)

Muriel Bowser, D.C. mayor, to go to Cuba on trade mission

By Ryan M. McDermott - The Washington Times

United States Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Cuba's Minister of Transportation Adel Yzquierdo Rodriguez, right, sign the airline transportation agreement as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles Rivkin, top left, looks on in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. Cuba and the United States signed the agreement that will allow U.S. commercial airlines to begin operating flights to the island and vice-versa for the first time in decades. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

TRAVEL: U.S., Cuba sign deal on commercial flights

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 22, 2011, file photo, a farmer drives his tractor in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. The Obama administration has approved the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a century, allowing a pair of former software engineers to build a plant assembling as many as 1,000 small tractors a year. The partners were notified by Treasury Department officials in February 2016. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, File)

U.S. OK’s first factory in Cuba since revolution

By Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press

Pope Francis wears a traditional Mexican sombrero hat he received as a gift by a Mexican journalist aboard the plane during the flight from Rome to Habana, Cuba, on his way to a week-long trip to Mexico, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016. The pontiff is scheduled to stop in Cuba for an historical meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill that the Vatican sees as a historic step in the path toward healing the 1,000-year schism that split Christianity. (Alessandro Di Meo/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope, Russian patriarch exchange symbolic gifts

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Pope Francis, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill to meet in Cuba in historic step

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U.S. President Barack Obama stands with Cuba's President Raul Castro before a bilateral meeting at the United Nations headquarters on Sept. 29, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama lifts more sanctions against Cuba

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obama stands with Cuba's President Raul Castro before a bilateral meeting at the United Nations headquarters on Sept. 29, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama says his Cuba policy is working, tells Congress to lift embargo

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A United Airlines plane, front, is pushed back from a gate at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. (Associated Press)

U.S., Cuba agree on restoration of commercial flights

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President Obama shakes hands with Cuban President Raul Castro in front of members of the media before a bilateral meeting Sept. 29, 2015, at the United Nations headquarters. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama says Raul Castro is not an ‘ideologue,’ hopes to visit Cuba next year

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times