Although Castro was admired by a legion of followers, detractors saw him as a repressive leader who turned Cuba into a de facto gulag. He taunted 10 successive U.S. presidents, who viewed him variously as a potential courier of Armageddon, a fomenter of revolution, a serial human rights abuser or a sideshow who hung on after communism collapsed almost everywhere else.
The senator from Florida, whose parents are Cuban immigrants, didn't mince words. Meanwhile, Miami's Little Havana neighborhood was overrun with people cheering Castro's death.
Years ago, the loss of Fidel Castro would have been a seismic shock. Now Havana is mostly subdued as younger generations sort out the country he left behind.
A Cuban in Havana, left, and a jubilant crowd in Miami’s Little Havana. (EPA; Andrew Innerarity for The Post)
The president-elect's initially brief reaction was followed up with a statement in which he called Castro a "brutal dictator" and said he hoped Castro's death gave Cuban Americans "the hope of one day soon seeing a free Cuba."
The Democratic candidate will participate in the recount initiated by the Green Party’s Jill Stein, a campaign lawyer revealed. He said Clinton officials have moved to explore “any possibility of outside interference in the vote tally” there and in other key battlegrounds. President-elect Trump called the recount a “scam” and said the results of the election “should be respected instead of being challenged and abused.”
If the president-elect keeps up his “drain the swamp” rhetoric, he could end up alienating the very Republicans he needs to help pass his other ambitious proposals on taxes and border security.
Any anxiety about President-elect Donald Trump gave way to the realization that the electoral surprise meant they would have a role in choosing the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s successor, and the mood brightened.
A woman and a child walk on the street in Rabia, Iraq, a town that is now administered by the region of Kurdistan.
Men from villages recaptured by security forces are held at a detention center while authorities screen them for ties to ISIS.
Heavily damaged graves and shrines at the Tikrit cemetery. Large swaths of the city are still in ruins
Louay Rashed, his wife, Amal Saleh, and their eight children live in a caravan after being forced to flee their home.
Displaced Sunni Arabs are registered outside Tikrit. Many are regarded with suspicion as potential ISIS sympathizers.
Destruction in Tikrit. Almost all of the residents have returned since the Islamic State was forced out 18 months ago.
Most Sunnis played no part in the rise of the Islamic State — but all are paying a heavy price for the sake of those who did. The wound will last for generations, and it’s a stark reversal in the fortunes of the majority sect of Islam that had ruled the Middle East for most of the past 1,400 years.
Many Brazilians escaped poverty during the boom years only to fall for fast food. Now, overweight people account for 57 percent of Brazil’s population — with 1 in 5 obese.
Witnesses said the 62-year-old and the 15-year-old knocked into each other near a Dollar General in Charleston, W.Va., and got into an argument.
(Andre Chung for The Washington Post)
(Andre Chung for The Washington Post)
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Body art is trending among performers, but it can carry costs. Just ask the makeup artists.
A fourth-down conversion set up the winning touchdown in the second overtime.
Peru is responsible for producing and distributing an estimated 60 percent of all fake U.S. notes.
In and around this Alaskan village, the bears wait — among human neighbors — for sea ice.
In Baltimore, one man’s alleyway ushers in an endless parade of interesting characters.
This dish is so good, Dorie Greenspan roasts extra turkey for it every year.
