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Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill will slash health care for legal immigrants to pay for tax cuts
Arizona Mirror
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July 2, 2025
Provisions in the new tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate early Tuesday would go even further than the House bill in removing health care and other benefits from immigrants with legal status. The House version of the massive tax and...
Judge Rules That Trump Administration EO on Asylum Claims Would Violate Immigration and Nationality Act
Red State
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July 2, 2025
The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. In a decision released on Wednesday, a federal judge ordered a halt to the implementation of one of President Trump's first acts in...
Book review: Three Revolutions by Simon Hall — how Russia, China and Cuba changed forever
Taipei Times
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July 2, 2025
A historian explores eyewitness accounts of the most dramatic political upheavals of the 20th century If the word “revolution” implies, etymologically, a world turned around, then what unfolded in Russia in 1917 was just that. Everything changed....
The White House is Enforcing a Cuba Travel Ban—Can Americans Visit?
Travel Awaits
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July 2, 2025
Back in 1962, when President John F. Kennedy enforced a trade embargo between the US and Cuba, travel between the countries became illegal. Videos by TravelAwaits It was a travel ban that would remain in place for almost half a century until, in...
Cuban Volleyball Team Faces Visa Denial Before Key Tournament
Asume Tech
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July 2, 2025
The Cuban women’s national volleyball team has encountered a significant hurdle following the denial of their visa application to compete in the NORCECA Women’s Final Four tournament in Manatí, Puerto Rico. This unexpected setback comes as part of...
Trump once again tightens the US blockade on Cuba
Liberation News
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July 2, 2025
This article is reprinted from Peoples Dispatch. US President Trump’s June 30 executive order reinstated all the sanctions against Cuba that Biden had lifted, and implemented new measures against Cuban companies with alleged ties to the socialist...
Lawfare strikes again: Rogue judge ignores SCOTUS, shields 500,000 from Trump's immigration crackdown
The Blaze
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July 2, 2025
Another district judge sought to block the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts by preventing the Department of Homeland Security from stripping Temporary Protected Status from over 500,000 immigrants, despite the administration's...
Russian Council decries US hostility against Cuba
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 2, 2025
We have condemned here and now the unjust economic blockade of the US government, which is almost 65 years old, said Petushkov at the Jose Marti Memorial, during the inauguration of the 1st Cuba-Russia Youth Forum ‘Heritage, Innovation and...
Vincy Mas 2025: A Celebration of Resistance, Rhythm, and Cultural Memory in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
teleSUR
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July 2, 2025
July 2, 2025 Hour: 12:47 pm Just five kilometers from the capital, the vibrant heart of Vincy Mas 2025 is pulsing with music, color, and cultural pride. Known officially as Vincent Mass, the carnival is Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’ most...
Cuba categorically rejects the U.S. Presidential Memorandum tightening the economic blockade
Radio Habana Cuba
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July 2, 2025
Cuba categorically rejects the U.S. Presidential Memorandum tightening the economic blockade The anti-Cuban document released by the U.S. government on June 30, 2025, consists of a reissue and amendment of National Security Presidential Memorandum...
Cuban province hosts main event for Cuban Historian's Day
Cuban News Agency
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July 2, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, July 1 (ACN) In recognition of the meritorious work of historians in that eastern territory, the easternmost province of Guantanamo will host today the main event for Cuban Historian's Day, a commemoration dedicated to honoring those...
Cuban Biotechnology Institute contributes to food sovereignty
Cuban News Agency
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July 2, 2025
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, July 1 (ACN) Contributing to the country's food sovereignty and nutritional education program is among the main goals of the Plant Biotechnology Institute (IBP) in the central province of Villa Clara. Liz Mery Martinez Montero,...
Cuban province seeks to increase rice production
Cuban News Agency
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July 2, 2025
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, July 1 (ACN) Increasing rice planting and production in the central province of Villa Clara is the main objective of the Emilio Cordoba Agroindustrial Grain Company in the municipality of Encrucijada. Yanelis Saborido Perez,...
Cuba Condemns U.S. Presidential Memorandum Tightening Economic Blockade: A Renewed Assault on Sovereignty
teleSUR
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Cuba rejects renewed U.S. measures tightening the economic siege.Photo:EFE. July 1, 2025 Hour: 9:45 pm Cuba vehemently rejects the U.S. Presidential Memorandum of June 2025 that intensifies the economic blockade, denouncing it as an imperialist...
Cuban sport faces a year of great challenges
Cuban News Agency
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July 2, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, July 1 (ACN) Osvaldo Vento Montiller, president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education, and Recreation (Inder by its Spanish acronym), presented important elements of the sports organization's accountability to the...
“Alligator Alcatraz”: Florida Activists Resist Everglades Migrant Jail as ICE Deaths Rise in U.S.
Democracy Now!
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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, I want to bring into this conversation an activist in Florida. President Trump toured the new immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, flanked by...
Cuban Faces Deportation after 20 years in Jail for Hijacking
Havana Times
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July 2, 2025
Adermis Wilson Gonzalez at home in Houston, before his detention. Photo: Cafefuerte / 14ymedio. Adermis Wilson Gonzales may seek asylum in Mexico, in order to avoid reprisals in his country of origin. HAVANA TIMES – For the second time in 22...
After 'Alligator Alcatraz' visit, Trump says he wants more states to build immigrant detention centers
Orlando Weekly - Florida
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July 2, 2025
click to enlarge President Donald Trump urged additional states to build immigrant detention centers following his tour Tuesday of the 3,000-capacity tent and trailer Everglades facility the DeSantis administration built in eight days. The...
Judge blocks Trump from ending temporary Haitian immigration program
USA Today - Virginia
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A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending a temporary work program for Haitian immigrants early. A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending a temporary program that provides work permits and protection from...
Isidro Pérez, the elderly Cuban fisherman who died in ICE custody after nearly 60 years in the US
El País
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July 2, 2025
Isidro Pérez liked fishing and made a living, while he was still healthy, repairing boats. At 75 years old, with nearly six decades in the United States and after four heart attacks and three catheterizations, he lived on a boat anchored near a...