Cuba

Report: U.S. needs to encourage economic reforms in Cuba

The Center for Democracy in the Americas says the United States should show support for recent reforms that could improve the lives of the Cuban people.

Shadow Inventory 2011

U.S. Congress

Congress approves free-trade pacts

Congress has OK’d long-delayed free-trade agreements that phase out tariffs on trade with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. They now await the president’s signature.

COURTS

Promises of Costa Rican dream homes fueled a 'Ponzi-type scheme,' lawsuit says

She wanted a piece of paradise — a tropical retirement home where the temperature is warm, the air is clean and the crowds and stress of South Florida are far, far away.