U.S.-Cuba relations were officially restored with the re-opening of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. In this part of the ceremony, the same flag that was lowered 54 years ago was raised ...

The U.S. Embassy in Cuba reopened with a flag-raising ceremony earlier today, fifty-four years after the Embassy closed in one of the angriest standoffs of the Cold War. It was a sentimental and ...

HAVANA — The Stars and Stripes rose Friday over the newly opened US Embassy for the first time in 54 years, making a symbolically charged victory lap for the Obama administration’s new policy… ...

MIAMI – After returning over the weekend from Cuba, where I saw the American flag fly atop the U.S. Embassy in Havana for the first time in 54 years, I handed my mother a little gift.

Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco, who read a poem at Obama's second inauguration, was to read a new work before three Marines who lowered the flag at the embassy's closing in 1961 return to ...

Monday marked two historic moments in the diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba, as embassies in both countries' capitals opened just after midnight and the island nation's flag ...