Cuba

MIAMI -- Fifty-one years after a CIA-backed exile force hit the beaches of Cuba for what became known as the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Central Intelligence Agency is still fighting the release of the final volume of its official history of the ill-fated mission.

The final volume is a rebuttal by Jack Pfeiffer, the CIA's chief historian, of a report by the agency's inspector general that found the CIA itself bore primary responsibility for the failure of the April 14-19, 1961, invasion. The IG blamed "bad planning," faulty intelligence, inadequate staffing and failure to inform President John F. Kennedy that the success of the operation was "dubious."

SANTIAGO, Cuba -- Pope Benedict XVI spent the night in a brand-new home built just for him near the sanctuary of Cuba's Virgin of Charity icon, where he will kneel in quiet prayer early Tuesday before heading to the capital for political meetings.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- In the few weeks since Rear Adm. David B. Woods took charge here, he has looked in on the men accused of killing two of his Naval Academy classmates, walked the camps where President Barack Obama's closure order has faded in the sun and presided over a somber ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of America's 21st-century Day of Infamy.