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LES CAYES, Haiti -- The death toll from a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti more than doubled to 724 on Sunday as rescuers raced to find survivors amid the rubble ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching tropical storm that threatened to further complicate relief efforts.

Biden walks a tightrope on Cuba Ishaan Tharoor People shout slogans against the government during a protest Sunday in Havana. (Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters) The anti-regime protests taking place throughout Cuba delivered yet another jolt to the White House. Just as the Biden administration was grappling with the near-unprecedented events in Haiti following the assassination of the country’s president, it now has to reckon with what could be a historic uprising taking place in ...

Article content The attack by assailants that Haitian authorities described as “commandos” comes amid months of escalating political instability and gang violence that have critically eroded the rule of law in the Caribbean nation of 11 million. Moïse, 53, dissolved parliament in January 2020 and ruled by decree as opponents and protesters demanded that he step down. Armed gangs with unclear allegiances have seized control of growing portions of the country, terrorizing the population with...

Giuliani’s long quest to put himself in legal jeopardy appears to have paid off Aaron Blake © Sarah Silbiger/For The Washington Post Former New York mayor and Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani speaks during a news conference challenging the election results in November. (Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post) For years, a question has been on the lips of many political watchers: What’s up with Rudolph W. Giuliani? The man who, as New York mayor, built a bipartisan reput...

Mahir Ali THE opening sentence of a report in The Washington Post last Saturday encapsulates some of the lazy prejudices that have dogged mainstream American perceptions of a tiny neighbouring island for more than six decades. “Sixty-two years after a band of revolutionaries set Cuba down a path of confrontation with Washington,” writes Anthony Faiola, the newspaper’s South American/Caribbean bureau chief, “the last of the Castro brothers … announced he will surrender official power.�...

White House sidelines planned commission, eyes “George Floyd” bill

A report by Megan Janetsky and Anthony Faiola for The Washington Post. On a January morning in the foothills of the Andes, Gonzalo Cardona Molina gave his daughter a goodbye hug, jumped on his 2015 Yamaha motorcycle and set off for the habitat of the elusive yellow-eared parrot. Cardona had spent two decades nurturing the…

Democrats say they've learned the lessons of 2009

What nation serves as the most powerful example of how statism can wreck an economy and impoverish people?The Soviet UnionGreeceCubaChinaZimbabweVenezuelaThose are all good choices, but perhaps Argentina is the best example .02/27/2021 14:07:39PM EST.

It’s hard to imagine a February address to Congress can take place as it normally would.