United Airlines will suspend its Houston-Havana flights in September, citing seasonal demand shifts and declining travel due to U.S. restrictions and Trump-era travel bans on Cuban nationals. American Airlines has also cut back on Cuba routes.

A new bipartisan bill led by Rep. María Elvira Salazar could offer relief to Cuban immigrants with I-220A forms by granting them parole status. The proposal aims to fix a legal gap that has left many Cubans in limbo, unable to access permanent residency. The bill comes amid protests against Salazar and fellow Trump allies for their support of harsh anti-immigration and anti-Cuba policies.

The U.S. deports immigrants to Eswatini and South Sudan as home countries refuse return—raising legal and human rights concerns.

Cuba has approved a landmark law allowing legal gender changes without surgery. The move marks a major step forward for LGBTQ+ rights in a country that has already legalized same-sex marriage and adoption. The new law simplifies the process for trans people to update their gender identity.

Cuba’s Labor Minister resigned after claiming there are no beggars on the island, sparking outrage across social media. Once rare, begging has grown more visible as living conditions worsen. President Díaz-Canel publicly rebuked her before her swift resignation.

After dining with Trump, Netanyahu praised him for peace while the U.S. banned Cuba’s president over alleged human rights abuses. The U.S. backs Israel amid mass killings in Gaza but sanctions Cuba for far less — raising questions about Washington’s selective concern for human rights.

Cuba’s girls’ softball team missed the Little League qualifier after U.S. visas were denied to coaches and staff. It’s part of a growing pattern of Cuban athletes being blocked from international events under Rubio’s State Department. Cuban officials call it unfair and discriminatory.

Cuba has submitted a list of 62 individuals and 20 organizations it classifies as “terrorists” to the United Nations, most of them based in the U.S. The move highlights Cuba’s longstanding accusations that the U.S. harbors people responsible for deadly attacks against the island, including those behind the 1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455.

Several Cubans who won the U.S. visa lottery this year have had their visas denied at the U.S. Embassy in Havana for “national security” reasons. The refusals stem from the partial travel ban enacted on Cuban nationals last month. 

On the anniversary of Cuba’s July 11 protests, Marco Rubio claimed to support the Cuban people—despite leading U.S. policies that have worsened food, medicine, and electricity shortages and driven record emigration. His role in ramping up sanctions and defending anti-immigration measures has directly harmed the very people he claims to stand with. Watch our series The War on Cuba to learn more.

The U.S. is sending migrants to Guantanamo Bay once again, with 72 people now held at the facility, according to CBS. Human rights groups have raised alarm after reports that the Trump administration plans to detain thousands more at the controversial post-9/11 prison. Guantanamo hasn’t held this many people since the 1990s, when Cuban and Haitian migrants were kept in camps. Cuba continues to demand the return of the territory, which the U.S. has occupied since 1898.

A group of eight men with criminal records – including two Cubans – has been deported to South Sudan after spending weeks in a military base in Djibouti as a legal battle over their future was fought in the U.S.

Brazilian table tennis star Hugo Calderano denied U.S. visa over past trip to Cuba, exposing the reach of U.S. sanctions and the terrorism list.

The Supreme Court has asked the Trump administration to weigh in on a lawsuit against four cruise ship companies that took U.S. travelers to Cuba after Obama’s opening toward the island.

The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft has published a report urging the Trump administration to adopt a new Cuba policy based on “pragmatic engagement.”

Cuba’s national women’s volleyball team was denied U.S. visas to attend a final four tournament in Puerto Rico next month organized by the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA). Cuba’s Volleyball Federation slammed the decision, calling it “unfair and discriminatory.”

The U.S. recently nominated Cuban dissident Rosa María Payá to join the OAS’s Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The independent panel evaluating Payá and the other candidates concluded that she “generally meets the evaluation criteria.” But they also stated to have “specific concerns regarding her experience and potential conflicts of interest.”

Former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, convicted of corruption and acting as a foreign agent, begins his prison sentence. Once a key architect of hardline Cuba policy, Menendez now faces a far different reality. Watch our documentary Hardliner on the Hudson.

Trump's travel ban is ostensibly aimed at terrorists and would-be immigrants. But in Cuba those affected include students, scientists, academics and entrepreneurs who have no intention of living in the U.S.

The Bahamas on Monday announced it would cancel contracts with Cuban doctors after talks with Washington.