The action is part of a deal worked out with help from the Catholic Church to free political prisoners on the island.

This event echoes the White House tradition of pardoning turkeys on Thanksgiving. The lucky piglets, named Glinda and Elphaba after characters from the musical "Wicked," will now enjoy their ...

Public pardons for the two piglets were granted by the mayor of Miami-Dade County, Daniella Levine Cava, in a seven-year South Florida riff on the White House tradition of pardoning two turkeys at ...

This paved the way for a compromise in which the White House agreed to trade the Cuban spies for another captured intelligence asset in Cuba, while Gross would be released on separate humanitarian ...