In what has turned into a regular occurrence, Cuba’s power grid collapsed on Wednesday morning, another in a series of electricity outages in the past year across the entire island.

Humberto remained a powerful Category 4 storm in the Atlantic early Monday, the National Hurricane Center said.

Patrick Oppmann was a 21-year-old college student doing a stint with CNN’s Havana bureau when he tasked himself with finding a woman who had evaded the long arm of American law enforcement for nearly 20 years.

More than a thousand Cubans have signed contracts to fight for Russia against Ukraine, and 39 have been confirmed dead, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence said in a press briefing convened by Cuban American Republican lawmakers from South Florida.

HAVANA -- Cuban teenagers Fabio and Diego Abreu seem shy at first, but the moment they step on stage, they become confident, filling a concert hall in downtown Havana with a hypnotic form of traditional jazz.