A lack of water, money and electricity combined with a U.S energy blockade are forcing Cubans to eliminate long-established and often beloved routines as they adapt to increasingly dire realities.

HAVANA – Residents across the Cuban capital hauled buckets and lined up for water from tanker trucks as a combination of fuel shortages and power grid instability left thousands of taps dry. State ...

Bulletin: ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Pinellas, Coastal ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. HAVANA (AP) — Eduvirgen Zamora hides her hands out of embarrassment these days. Her nails are ...

HAVANA(AP) — Eduvirgen Zamora hides her hands out of embarrassment these days. Her nails are down to the quick, except for her thumbs, which feature inch-long talons covered in fancy silver swirls.

A barber cuts a boy's hair at his makeshift barbershop on the street in Havana, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. A nurse walks past trash and an abandoned classic American car on a street in Havana, ...

A barber cuts a boy's hair at his makeshift barbershop on the street in Havana, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) A barber cuts a boy's hair at his makeshift barbershop on the ...