FORT MEADE — Military prosecutors and defense lawyers tangled Monday over digital evidence against an Army intelligence analyst charged with massively leaking secret U.S. data to WikiLeaks, while his supporters fumed that the public was shut out as the hearing ...

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WASHINGTON — Washington and Cuba have had an icy relationship for decades, but the Cold War foes now have a place to share something else: chilly drinks. Last month, Cuban officials inaugurated an invitation-only bar at the mansion in northwest ...

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LINTHICUM — A travel agency and BWI airport say weekly charter flights between Maryland and Cuba will begin next year. Island Travel & Tours Ltd., along with its partner, Sky King Inc. will offer weekly charter service beginning March 21. ...

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HAVANA — Ramon Menendez went to his grave in the 1980s believing that his family grocery, shut down by Fidel Castro’s revolution, would one day rise again. In January it finally happened. La Moneda Cubana, which sold groceries, snacks and ...

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WASHINGTON  — The five remaining Chinese Muslims who are being held at Guantanamo Bay lost their latest bid Monday to get the Supreme Court to hear their case. The justices turned away a plea from the five detainees, who have been ...

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This week, the Maryland Lottery Agency released revenue figures from the state’s two slots casinos, the chief of staff for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake resigned and BWI announced it could soon fly you to Cuba. Those stories and more in this ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport has been cleared to offer passenger air service to Cuba, the airport said Tuesday. The federal approval comes as part of the president’s effort to ease restrictions on travel to the communist island ...

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HAVANA — The carpets are worn and the rooms have a musty feel. Yet Havana’s iconic Hotel Nacional, which marked its 80th birthday Thursday, wears its slightly shabby elegance with pride, an aging beauty a bit past its prime. The ...

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WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials are drafting an executive order that would set up a review process for detainees held indefinitely at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the White House said Wednesday. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told ...

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WASHINGTON— The wife of a Potomac man jailed in Cuba as an accused spy said Tuesday that she and her husband have been able to talk on the telephone more regularly after she wrote an August letter to Cuban President ...

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