Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, left, sits with Cuban LGBT activist Juana Mora Cedeno, center, and Cuban political activist Antonio Rodiles, right, during a meeting with President Barack Obama at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, March 22, 2016.

The Biden administration plans to lift Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, a move likely to be reversed by the incoming Trump administration.

The move was part of a sweeping executive order signed by Trump on Monday night that rescinds 78 executive actions taken by Biden over the course of his presidency.

The Biden administration said it would remove Cuba from its terrorism blacklist, while Cuba said separately it would release upward of 500 prisoners from its jails.

As President Joe Biden nears the end of his term, there is a possibility that his administration might remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of

President Barack Obama similarly removed Cuba from the terrorism list. Trump reinstated that designation shortly before leaving office in 2021. Michael Bustamante, a professor at the University of ...

which had been reversed during the period of rapprochement between Cuba and the United States during President Barack Obama’s second term in office. In doing so, the Trump administration cited ...

The decision is likely to be reversed by the incoming Trump administration. Sen. Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state whose family fled Cuba in the 1950s, supports strong sanctions on Havana's Communist regime.

Presid​ent Trump, drunk with arrogance, decides, for no good reason, Cuba sponsors terrorism,” said the Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez.

Cuba said it will release 553 political prisoners after the Biden administration announced Tuesday it is removing Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and taking other “goodwill” actions.

Pompeo accused the nation of reneging on its commitments made when President Barack Obama took them off the list of state sponsors of terrorism in 2015. Cuba has been one of just four nations ...

President Donald Trump has stopped the program, which for decades has brought to the U.S. thousands of people fleeing war and persecution.