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The U.S. pressure campaign against Cuba appears to have entered a new phase.

The Supreme Court subjected the world’s largest cruise ship companies to a stiff headwind on Thursday, reviving a claim that alleged they trafficked in property confiscated by the Cuban government when they docked their ships in Havana.

Cuban officials closed ranks around Mr. Castro, their embattled former president, who was indicted on murder charges in the downing of two civilian planes 30 years ago.

President Trump has been openly mulling a takeover of Cuba similar to the operation that toppled Venezuela's Nicolás Madoro. What it would mean for the regime's leaders remains to be seen. Here are some of the figures to watch.

It’s an indictment that could doom any lingering chance of a deal to avoid armed conflict between the United States and Cuba. The federal charges against former Cuban leader Raul Castro regarding the downing of a civilian plane in 1996 fired up the Cuban exile community in Miami,

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made no bones ⁠about ⁠who he blames for Cuba's economic woes. The culprit, according ⁠to the Cuban American politician, is a military conglomerate known by its initials GAESA.

Supreme Court dealt a major blow to four cruise lines accused of profiting from Cuban property seized during Fidel Castro's communist revolution in 1959.

The communist island once had a vaunted military, but it’s now “a shell of a shell of what it used to be.”