(CNSNews.com) – Although President Barack Obama plans to visit Communist Cuba and meet with dictator Raul Castro in March, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said he would not visit the island until it is "a free Cuba," and noted that the regime is harboring U.S. criminals, including a woman who was covicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper.
At Wednesday's CNN Republican Presidential Town Hall in Greenville, S.C., host Anderson Cooper asked Rubio about Obama's pending trip and whether he, if elected president, would also visit Cuba.
NEW YORK (AP) — Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child's-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, "To Kill a Mockingbird," became standard reading for millions of young people and an Oscar-winning film, has died. She was 89.
HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis confirmed the author's death to The Associated Press on Friday.
