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Raul Rojas dies at 70; L.A. gang member turned boxing champion
Raul Rojas, a tough former gang member who turned to boxing and became a world featherweight champion, died Sunday of natural causes at a Los Angeles convalescent home, said his daughter Rebecca. He was 70. Rojas claimed the World Boxing Assn. belt on...
Tags: Japan, Human Interest, Featherweight Boxing, Boxing, Sports Illustrated
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U.S. romps, Canada stuns Cuba in Olympic volleyball qualifier
The U.S. and Canada men’s volleyball teams both remained unbeaten in pool play Wednesday, advancing to Friday’s semifinals of the NORCECA Olympic qualifying tournament at Long Beach State. The U.S. knocked off Mexico, 25-23, 25-19, 25-14 as...
Tags: Frank McCourt, Mexico, Matt Anderson, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago
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Cuba advances to volleyball showdown with U.S.
Cuba’s men’s volleyball team had little trouble with Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, needing less than an hour to roll to a straight-set victory and advance to a semifinal showdown with the unbeaten U.S. in the NORCECA Olympic qualifying...
Tags: Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Volleyball
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Calle 13 brings its urban Latin sound and fiery politics to L.A.
René Pérez, lead singer of Puerto Rican alternative urban group Calle 13, knows a thing or two about teeing people off. Since the release of Calle 13's self-titled debut album in 2005, the band (founded by Pérez and his stepbrother Eduardo Cabra...
Tags: Latin Music (genre), Politics, Awards and Prizes, Fordham University, FBI
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U.S. defeats Cuba in mens volleyball
The U.S. men's volleyball team moved to within a victory of a spot in this summer's Olympic Games by beating Cuba, 21-25, 25-18, 25-16, 25-16, on Friday in the semifinals of the NORCECA qualifying tournament played before a near-capacity crowd at Long...
Tags: Olympic Games, Matt Anderson, Volleyball
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U.S. qualifies for Olympics in volleyball
The U.S. men’s volleyball team is on its way to its eighth consecutive Olympic Games appearance after sweeping Canada on Saturday in the NORCECA regional qualifying tournament at Long Beach State. The scores were 28-26, 25-18, 25-20, leaving the U....
Tags: Olympic Games, Volleyball
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KSM & Co. getting what they want at Guantanamo Bay
World NowThe "trial of the century" kicks off at the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunal Saturday -- again -- with the arraignment of confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged accomplices on mass murder charges that could lead to death... -
Sept. 11 terrorism trial at Guantanamo gets off to a silent start
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details.U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the boisterous, boastful self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, sat in a small blue chair for hours Saturday at the opening of his capital murder military trial --...Tags: Lawyers, Laws, Criminal Laws, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Wars and Interventions
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Accused 9/11 plotters to appear in Guantanamo Bay court
Early Saturday morning in a courtroom inside the highly guarded detainee prison at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, five of the alleged top plotters in the Sept. 11 attacks will speak for the first time under a new Obama administration plan...
Tags: Republican Party, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Prisons, Justice System, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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'Una Noche,' 'War Witch' win awards at Tribeca film festival
24 Frames"Una Noche," a movie about Cuban teenagers trying to escape the Communist island and "War Witch," about a child soldier in Africa and were the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival award ceremony Thursday night.... -
Letters: Marco Rubio on foreign policy
Re "Foreign policy close to home," Opinion, April 25 Saying the U.S. cannot afford "to keep putting Latin America on the back burner," Sen. Marc Rubio (R-Fla.) wants us to "enhance trade and economic ties." Regarding Cuba specifically, we should find...Tags: Marco Rubio, China
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Tribeca 2012: Cuban actors materialize in Miami
24 FramesTwo Cuban actors who were believed to have defected when they disappeared in Miami en route to the Tribeca Film Festival, have surfaced, announcing they have indeed defected...
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