Cuban exiles have renewed hope and fears over claims on property seized long ago

MIAMI — Deeply ingrained in Raul Valdes-Fauli’s family lore is the November 1960 day when an agent of Fidel Castro’s revolution showed up at his family’s Pedroso Bank in Havana, with a machine gun, and demanded they leave. Calling his father and uncle gusanos — or worms, a Spanish-language term coined by Castro to denigrate … Read more

Shaky ceasefire unlikely to stop cyberattacks from Iran-linked hackers for long

WASHINGTON — Hackers backing Tehran say an uncertain ceasefire between Iran and the United States and Israel won’t end their retaliatory cyberattacks, a warning that American cybersecurity experts say potential targets in the U.S. and Israel should take seriously. One leading hacking group known as Handala said after the ceasefire announcement that it was temporarily … Read more

Rex Heuermann to plead guilty in the Gilgo Beach killings, ending long search for a serial killer

A Long Island architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims’ relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years. Rex Heuermann, 62, is charged with murdering seven women, many of them sex workers, … Read more

California family on Easter egg hunt finds human remains in Long Beach, police say

An investigation is underway in Long Beach after a family discovered human remains during an Easter egg hunt in the area near DeForest Park and Wetlands on Sunday afternoon, according to police.  Officers told CBS LA that they were called to the 5900 block of De Forest Avenue at around 5 p.m. upon learning of … Read more

Family finds possible human remains in Long Beach during Easter egg hunt, police say

An investigation is underway in Long Beach after a family discovered possible human remains during an Easter egg hunt in the area near DeForest Park and Wetlands on Sunday afternoon, according to police.  Officers told CBS LA that they were called to the 5900 block of De Forest Avenue at around 5 p.m. upon learning … Read more

Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, then you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, a map and reference manual of Planet Earth and its inhabitants upon which nearly everyone could agree. Maybe you read parts of it from a floppy disk or a CD-ROM for that social studies … Read more