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The CIA director has wrapped up a visit to Ivana, where he talked about intelligence cooperation.
“If he resated for all to reports, this comes at a time when tensions between the U.S. and Cuba”
are running high. "In a statement, the Cuban government says CIA director John Radcliffe flew to Ivana with a delegation to meet with his counterpart at the Ministry of the Interior. As part of the political dialogue, the Cuban government says it demonstrated that Cuba poses no threat to the United States.
It insists Cuba does not have any quote foreign military or intelligence bases on its territory,
and it has never supported any hostile activity against the U.S.
The visit comes as the situation on the island to become critical. Protesters took to the street across Savannah, Wednesday night, and Cuba's energy minister says they have run out of fuel, meaning blackouts are likely to continue across the country. In a problem, in Piero News, Mexico City. The Supreme Court today allowed the abortion pill to remain available by mail nationwide
overruling for now, at least a lower court decision that had blocked the pill from being sent through the mail everywhere in the country. Empires Nina Totenberg reports.
“In a one-payer ref order, the High Court froze a decision by the Fifth Circuit Court”
of Appeals that had made it illegal to send the abortion pill, known formally as Mifra Fristone, through the mail.
The Justices, however, reversed that ruling until the case is fully litigated up through
the Supreme Court of necessary. Two Justices, Clans Thomas, and Samuel Alito, filed the sending opinions, Thomas took particular aim at the manufacturer's of Mifra Fristone, contending that since abortion is illegal in Louisiana, drug makers are not entitled to block a court order, quote, "based on lost profits from their criminal enterprise," Nina Totenberg and PR News Washington.
South Carolina's governor ordered state lawmakers back for a special session starting tomorrow to consider redistricting a mid-President Trump's nationwide push ahead of the midterm elections. South Carolina Public Radio's Gavin Jackson reports some Republicans want to flip the state's only Democratic held house seat.
On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled state Senate fell narrowly short of a two-thirds
“support needed to extend a legislative session already underway and take up redistricting.”
Now, Republican Governor McMaster, who was an early supporter of Trump's in 2016, has called lawmakers back to start a new session, which could flip the state's sole Democratic majority district. Representative by Congressman Jim Clyburn, Twitter Republican Majority, absentee ballots are already being cast in primaries, and in-person early voting is set to begin May 26.
A deadline lawmakers are also using for a new map and legislation to delay the voting. It's unclear what this will mean for ballots that have already been cast. For MPR News, I'm Gavin Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina. And you're listening to MPR News from Washington. Tens of thousands of Israelis streamed through Jerusalem in an annual ultra-nationalist
march marked by racist and anti-Palestinian chance. This event is in celebration of Israel's capture of East Jerusalem nearly 60 years ago. MPR's Daniel Astron reports from the old city of Jerusalem. Fourth of October, boys and young men are streaming through the Muslim quarter of the old city.
They are chanting religious chants. They're also chanting anti-arab slurs, like Mayor Village Burn. And you can see here, symbols inspired by Israel's wars and Israel occupying lands throughout the region. Many people are wearing stickers that say Gaza is ours forever.
We're wearing necklaces with the map of what's called greater Israel, including lands in today's Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan. Many here are waving flags calling for the building of the Jewish temple at the site of the biblical temples, which is where Islam's al-Aqsa mosque stands today. Several hundred Israeli human rights activists have been in the city trying to protect Palestinians
in the streets as young Israelis attack them. Daniel Astron and P.R. News, Jerusalem.
On to says it has a full year loss for the first time ever, losing $2.7 billion in the
last fiscal year, because of costly electric vehicle strategy. The Japanese automaker abandoned many of its plans for EV models, including those in the works and a joint venture with Sony. Economists say the company might have been too ambitious, acting when markets are still we're not ready.
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