
Rubio says Cuban leaders are ‘standing in the way’ in message on country’s independence day
Secretary of State Marco Rubio marked Cuba’s Independence Day on Wednesday with a sharply critical message blaming the island nation’s communist leadership for the country’s economic collapse and saying those in power are “the only thing standing in the way” of a better future fo
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All today →World Bee Day
UN-designated on the birthday of Anton Janša, a Slovenian beekeeper. Pollinators are responsible for a third of global food production — bees punch well above their weight.
National Strawberry Day
The garden strawberry is a hybrid first bred in Brittany, France in the 1750s by crossing a Chilean variety with a North American one. The resulting fruit spread across Europe and eventually produced the modern commercial strawberry. The US now grows 1.4 billion pounds per year, 90% of it in California.