Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Political calculus keeps Cuba on U.S. list of terror sponsors

2013-05-03 05:00:00

Cuba’s communist leadership was quick to send condolences to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and to reiterate to Washington that it “rejects and condemns unequivocally all acts of terrorism.” Once a key supplier of arms and...

Hillary Clinton faints, suffers concussion, recuperating at home

2012-12-15 10:50:00

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who canceled an overseas trip this week due to a stomach virus, suffered a concussion after she fainted, the State Department said Saturday. Clinton, who has said she plans to step down...

Former Marine back in the U.S. after months in a Mexican prison

2012-12-22 15:36:00

After spending months in a Mexican prison for attempting to carry his great-grandfather’s shotgun into the country, a former Marine has been released and is back in the United States. Jon Hammar, 27, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,...

U.N. boosts Palestinians' status to nonmember observer state

2012-11-29 14:42:00

UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday to slightly enhance the status of the Palestinian territories at the international organization, a controversial gambit that conveys world recognition for beleaguered Palestinians....

Cuba lifts 'exit visa' requirement for its citizens

2012-10-16 15:53:16

Orlando Bosch dies at 84; Cuban militant acquitted of 1976 bombing of jet

2011-04-29 00:00:00

Orlando Bosch, a prominent Cuban militant who was acquitted in Venezuela of the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner, died Wednesday at a suburban Miami hospital. He was 84. Bosch's wife, Adriana, said the exiled opponent of communist Cuba's Fidel Castro had...

Haiti devastation could speed immigration debate

2010-01-13 16:34:38

The hypocrisy of American bluster toward Iran

2009-12-23 00:00:00

By now there is little doubt that hypocrisy has become Washington's standing policy on foreign affairs. What is astounding is the lack of shame in such overt duplicity as Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's (R-Fla.) accusations in her Dec. 14 Times Op-Ed article...

Fair elections for Pakistan

2008-01-26 00:00:00

Since 9/11, the United States has placed greater importance on backing a Pakistani leader who will fight Islamic terrorism than on encouraging democracy for that troubled nation. The result is a country that is no more democratic and is now dangerously...

Passport delays infuriate U.S. lawmakers

2007-07-12 00:00:00

Washington Lawmakers criticized a senior State Department official for failing to anticipate a surge in demand for passports that has led to long delays for hundreds of thousands of Americans trying to travel abroad. "The U.S. passport system is broken,...

Archdiocese seeks citizenship for eligible legal residents in South Florida

2013-04-29 16:49:18

The Archdiocese of Miami launched a campaign Monday aimed at making Americans out of some of the estimated 400,000 legal residents of South Florida, mostly immigrants who have lived here for years but have never applied for citizenship. "I truly...

EDITORIAL: Support for ENDA: Anti-discrimination law's 40-year trip

2013-04-28 12:14:02

On Thursday, Boulder's Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat, and Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley from Oregon introduced a bill that would bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. With states legalizing gay marriage, and others crafting...

The 'Ugly Meter' scans a photo of a person and rates their looks on a scale from 1 to 10. 10 being the ugliest.

2012-05-01 10:11:00

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

2012-02-02 13:57:00

Miami's Cuban-American community embraced little Elian as their own. He was an honored guest at the community's annual Three Kings Day parade in January. Cuban-American politicians, who also understood Elian's significance, made sure they took up the cause to keep him in the United States.

2001-04-13 12:35:55