Cuba
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Alan Gross suit against Development Alternatives Inc. settled
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Alan Gross and his wife filed the lawsuit against the U.S. government and Bethesda, Md.,-based Development Alternatives Inc. in November. The suit is now settled.
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Joanne Chesimard added to FBI Most Wanted Terrorist list
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is actively seeking the apprehension of Joanne Chesimard, a New Jersey woman who shot and killed a state police trooper in 1973.
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Cuba turns over Florida couple and children, parents arrested
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The couple accused of kidnapping their two young sons and fleeing by boat to Cuba has been booked into a Florida jail after being handed over to U.S. authorities.
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D.C. National Guard unit to deploy to Guantanamo Bay Detention Center in Cuba
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The 372nd Military Police Battalion of the D.C. National Guard has its marching orders. They deploy Tuesday for Fort Bliss, Texas before ending up at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center in Cuba.
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Alan Gross imprisoned: Maryland company, U.S. ask judge to toss $60M lawsuit
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Lawyers for Development Alternatives Inc. filed documents in federal court in Washington on Tuesday asking a judge to dismiss the case brought by Alan Gross, a subcontractor for the company, and his wife.
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Alan Gross celebrates Hanukkah while imprisoned in Cuba
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Alan Gross, who is imprisoned in Cuba for crimes against the state, has received another visit from Jewish leaders on the island.
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Alan Gross: Cuba accuses U.S. of lying about Gross' health
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The top Cuban diplomat for North American affairs says it's unrealistic to expect Cuba to free Maryland resident Alan Gross "unilaterally."
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Alan Gross, American imprisoned in Cuba, does not have cancer, despite previous report
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The Cuban government says a test shows an American imprisoned in Cuba doesn't have cancer, countering a previous statement by a US doctor that a mass on his shoulder should be assumed cancerous unless proven harmless.
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Alan Gross family sues Development Alternatives, Inc., USAID
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Alan Gross and his wife Judy sued Friday in federal court in Washington. Gross was arrested in December 2009 while on his fifth trip to Cuba as a subcontractor for an economic development organization based in Bethesda, Md.
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Hurricane Sandy path: Category 2 storm chugs on uncertain course toward East Coast
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As Hurricane Sandy continues its slow trek across the Caribbean on Thursday, weather watchers on the Eastern Seaboard continue to speculate about its potential path up the coast.
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National Archives presents Cuban Missile Crisis exhibit
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A new exhibit at the National Archives chronicles the tense 13-day standoff between Khrushchev and Castro during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Alan Gross, Maryland man imprisoned in Cuba, may have cancer
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A doctor says Alan Gross, a Montgomery County man imprisoned in Cuba, may have a cancerous growth on his shoulder, contradicting the Cuban government's stance that his health is normal.
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Diana Nyad pulled from water, Cuba-to-Florida swim seems elusive
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Her goal of swimming from Cuba to Florida appearing elusive, Diana Nyad was out of the water Tuesday morning, being checked by doctors on a boat after multiple jellyfish stings and bad weather hampered her swim.
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Pope Benedict in Cuba, demands greater freedom for Catholic Church
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Pope Benedict XVI is demanding greater freedom for the Catholic Church in Cuba during a Mass in the shrine of the island's communist revolution.
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Tumor removed from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
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Doctors successfully extracted a tumor from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's pelvic region and he was stable and recovering Tuesday with family at his side, his vice president announced.
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Alan Gross of Potomac not part of Cuban prisoner amnesty
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Alan Gross, a Potomac man jailed in Cuba for crimes against the state, is not among nearly 3,000 prisoners granted amnesty by President Raul Castro on Friday.
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Cuban officials open bar in D.C. named after Ernest Hemingway
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Cuban officials inaugurated an invitation-only bar at the mansion in northwest Washington where they have their offices last month.
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Alan Gross was 'undercover,' says Cuba
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Cuban officials say Alan Gross of Potomac, Md., who has been held in prison in the country for two years conducted "undercover activities" and was part of a program aimed at "disrupting the constitutional order in Cuba."
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