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In the town of Bíran, near the eastern tip of Cuba, people began knocking on Martin Castro's door early Saturday. The phone hasn't stopped ringing.

A dictator is dead. Another country's citizens may be ready to abandon the discredited and economically disastrous ideology of communism. Citizens can hope that free speech, a free press and human rights will become the order of the day.

Cuba is officially in mourning. But the scene in Little Havana, in Miami, is vastly different.

The US Secret Service is considering renting one floor in Trump Tower to protect President-elect Donald Trump and his family by turning it into a 24-7 command post, a law enforcement official told CNN Friday.

Police have detained 23 people on suspicion of arson in connection with wildfires that swept across central and northern Israel this week, said police spokeswoman Luba Samri.

See reactions from around the world following the death of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Looks like some Donald Trump supporters are still holding a grudge against Mitt Romney for the way the 2012 GOP nominee criticized Trump during the campaign. The President-elect is considering Romney for secretary of state, and according to news reports, before these Trump insiders will support Romney, they want him to apologize for calling Trump such things as a "phony" and a "fraud."

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has died at age 90, Cuban state media reported.

The U.S. is using cold-war era bombers to spy and gather intelligence on ISIS. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.

Forty-nine pit caves were discovered in China. According to CCTV, there are about 130 pit caves identified in the world and more than 90 of them are located in China.

Try to imagine the excitement of the Cuban people in 1959 when the young, charismatic barbudo, the bearded one, Fidel Castro, and his band of ragtag rebels managed to pull off the impossible: getting rid of the dictator Fulgencio Batista and ushering in -- or so everyone expected -- a new era in Cuba, a Cuba free of the corruption, violence and cronyism that had pockmarked its history since before its wars of independence.

American lawmakers -- including those with Cuban ties -- reacted strongly Saturday to Fidel Castro's death.

President-elect Donald Trump reacted Saturday to the death of controversial Cuban leader Fidel Castro in a four word tweet.

Fidel Castro visited the United States only a handful of times. But the late Cuban dictator for decades had an outsized effect on the presidential politics of his northern neighbor.

The former president had said that he never expected to live to see 90.

An Indiana mother is accused of injecting fecal matter into her 15-year-old son's IV bag while he was undergoing cancer treatments at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis.

People living near Canada's Pacific coast can breathe a sigh of relief -- the Royal Canadian Navy said that an object found recently in the ocean is not a lost bomb or nuclear weapon.

Following news of Fidel Castro's death, spontaneous celebrations broke out in Miami's Little Havana.

Cuba's longtime revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died Friday, bringing symbolic change to an island whose relations with the United States had only recently begun to thaw.