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Assuming Fidel Castro — for decades the international embodiment of anti-Yanqui anti-imperialism — even wanted to meet with Obama, it would be bad optics for the administration.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A hearing for a former Tulsa police officer accused in the off-duty fatal shooting of his daughter’s boyfriend has been delayed. Judge Sharon Holmes rescheduled Monday’s hearing for Shannon Kepler until May 16. Kepler’s attorneys want Holmes to recuse himself because she used to be an assistant district attorney, but she […]

HAVANA (AP) — HAVANA — When President Barack Obama watches the Tampa Bay Rays play Cuba’s national team Tuesday, it will come at the deepest moment of crisis in more than 50 years for the island’s famed state-run baseball league. A flood of high-profile defections to the U.S. has gutted the country’s teams. Stadiums and […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Upsets and wild finishes have altered the NCAA Tournament landscape for No. 1 seeds Virginia and North Carolina in their bids for the Final Four. Ten of the top 16 seeds have reached the Sweet 16, and seven of those are with fellow top seeds Oregon in the West Region or […]

CHICAGO (AP) — The uncle of a Chicago teen accused of providing the gun used in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl in a Facebook feud over a boy has been sentenced to 100 years in prison. Judge Thaddeus Wilson sentenced 27-year-old Donnell Flora on Monday after he was found guilty of charges including […]

PHOENIX (AP) — The manager of the Milwaukee Brewers says outfielder Rymer Liriano is doing well a day after being hit in the face by a pitch. Liriano sustained multiple facial fractures. Manager Craig Counsell visited him in the hospital on Monday and said the 24-year-old Liriano will start the season on the disabled list. […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Now that SeaWorld has decided to end its killer-whale breeding program, a national animal rights group says it wants the company to move the orcas it still owns to sea sanctuaries. PETA said in a statement issued Monday that it will file the shareholders’ request next year. Sea sanctuaries are pens […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — Octavius Ellis slumped on a stool near the basket for the longest time, unable to fathom how he’s just missed giving Cincinnati a game-tying dunk. Myles Davis pulled his white, No. 15 jersey over his face and slid to the court, unable to comprehend how Xavier’s season had just ended. Back in […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk and actress Talulah Riley are making another attempt to end their second marriage. Riley filed to divorce Musk on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court. Musk filed for divorce on New Year’s Eve in 2014 but withdrew the petition seven months later. The divorce is amicable and the […]

Rumors have been swirling through tidal pool of the sport salmon fishing season setting process that this will be a summer of no fisheries, which is totally untrue and 10 groups who represent the sport fishing industry wanted to voice their side of the story. The groups include Puget Sound Anglers; Charterboat Association of Puget […]

U.S. stocks drifted between small gains and losses in early trading Monday as investors pored over the latest batch of company deal news. Materials and energy stocks were among the biggest decliners. The market is coming off its fifth straight week of gains. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 10 points, or 0.1 […]

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A mother suspected in the disappearance of her two children has repeatedly tried to escape from a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. Citing court records filed in Montgomery District Court, the Washington Post (http://wapo.st/1UdfqiC ) reports that 29-year-old Catherine Hoggle has tried to escape at least eight times from Clifton T. Perkins Hospital […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear a dispute over a U.S. Postal Service regulation that bans guns from post office property and adjacent parking lots. The justices on Monday let stand an appeals court ruling that said the Second Amendment right to bear arms does not extend to government buildings or the parking […]

SAYREVILLE, N.J. (AP) — An off-duty New Jersey police officer has been found dead from a gunshot wound in his car in the parking lot of a closed movie theater complex. Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey says the Sayreville police officer was found dead Monday morning. Spokesman James O’Neill says the department began investigating after […]

DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — A group of whale watchers was treated to a rare sight off the Southern California coast — a false killer whale giving birth next to their boat. The Orange County Register reports (http://bit.ly/1UJ4KH2 ) that the whale gave birth on Saturday after approaching Capt. Tom Southern’s boat near Dana Point. […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A new poll indicates that a majority of Palestinians back near-daily stabbing attacks on Israelis, but that support dropped by nine points to 58 percent over the past three months. Monday’s survey also shows that a candidate from the Islamic militant group Hamas would handily win presidential elections if competing […]

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — The former tournament director at Indian Wells who now runs the WTA Tour calls his successor’s critical comments about women’s tennis players “disappointing and alarming.” Before Sunday’s finals at the BNP Paribas Open, current tournament director Raymond Moore told reporters that the women “ride on the coattails of the men.” […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t take up a dispute over whether an image on Oklahoma’s license plates showing an Apache warrior shooting an arrow contains a religious message. The justices on Monday let stand an appeals court ruling that threw out a pastor’s lawsuit claiming the plates endorse a polytheistic religion. The image […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans retreated from home-buying in February, reversing months of prior gains as low inventories push up prices to levels that restrict sales. The National Association of Realtors said Monday that sales of existing homes fell 7.1 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.08 million. The decline follows robust […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t consider reinstating the conviction of a former Ohio police officials charged in connection with his wife’s 1995 death. The justices on Monday declined to disturb a federal appeals court ruling that said authorities improperly withheld evidence that could have helped Ohio Police Lt. Thomas “Jim” Barton discredit charges […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is warning that it will start responding to cease-fire violations in Syria unilaterally starting Tuesday if the United States refuses to coordinate rules of engagement against the violators. Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian General Staff said in a statement on Monday that Russia will do that because the U.S., […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Sitting at a desk in the American embassy in London, a former U.S. State Department employee used his government-issued computer to prey on vulnerable young women and manipulate them into sharing nude photos, amassing thousands of images to make himself feel powerful, prosecutors said. Michael C. Ford, 36, faces years in prison […]

DONETSK, Russia (AP) — A Russian court on Monday found Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko guilty of complicity to murder two Russian journalists in war-torn eastern Ukraine. The judge who began reading the verdict Monday morning said in his opening that Savchenko, who served in a volunteer Ukrainian battalion at the time, called in the coordinates […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli nonprofit group says a clandestine operation has brought some of the last remaining Yemenite Jews to Israel. The Jewish Agency said Monday that 19 Yemenite Jews arrived over the past few days. The agency works closely with the Israeli government and acts as a link to Jews around the world. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Army Pvt. Jameson T. Hazelbower went AWOL after learning he was suspected of raping a 15-year-old girl. Despite the potential threat to the public that he posed, the self-described sex addict roamed free for nearly three months before local police collared him in Winnebago, Illinois, near where he grew up. And that […]