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The U.S. government has indicted former Cuban President Rao Castro on charges, including
murder in connection with the 1996 downing of two civilian aircraft that killed four people three of them U.S. citizens. It comes as the Trump administration escalates pressure on the country's socialist government and appears eight or parole to it has more on what could come next.
“"I think everyone's thinking the same thing.”
They're looking at Venezuela, where the United States had indicted now former President Nicolás Maduro of drug trafficking. In this January, American soldiers swooped into Caracas and they brought him to a jail in Brooklyn. I spoke to Michael Gustavante, who studies Cuba at the University of Miami and he says clearly
the U.S. has been ratcheting up pressure on the Cubans. The U.S. has enacted a defacto oil blockade.
They've announced new sanctions on basically the whole Cuban leadership.
And Gustavante says the thing the Trump administration was missing was a pretext for some kind of military action and this might be exactly that. NPR's Aterr Paralta reporting. SpaceX revealed plans today to sell shares to the public and what will likely be the biggest ever initial public offering.
It's unclear how much SpaceX plans to raise but it could surpass the debut of Saudi Iran code, the National Oil Company of Saudi Arabia. SpaceX has gotten several contracts with government agencies like NASA and the defense department from rocking rocket launches and satellite systems, the move would make Elon Musk the world's first trillion air.
“Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making big changes to an important scientific”
panel as NPR's ping-pong reports the panel creates guidelines that affect hundreds of millions of Americans. If you've ever gotten a routine mammogram or a colonoscopy or screening for depression in a physical, it's because of guidelines created by the U.S. preventive services task force. The panel of primary care clinicians recommends screenings and services people should and shouldn't
get based on scientific reviews. Kennedy fired the two top physicians leading the panel. He's called the task force negligent and vowed to shake it up. Dr. Alex Christ is a family physician and former chair of the panel. The task force, it's been the north star on how do we make guidelines and it's had such
an influence on prevention and health in America to just throw this out is just reckless. Health officials plan to name new members to the panel in June. Ping-Hwang and PR news.
“Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed”
over a Facebook post. He made joking about the assassination of Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, retired police officer Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail before authorities dropped the felony charge against him. The Perry County Sheriff said the post's alarmed residents, Bushart says he was exercising
his free speech rights and never should have been arrested.
U.S. stock market bounce back today and you're listening to NPR news from Washington. Health care workers in Congo say they are underprotected and under trained amid a rapidly spreading outbreak of Ebola. The World Health Organization says the outbreak poses a low global risk but local cases could case numbers will increase.
The arrival of any potential vaccine is months away. New reports says the global aid system is failing to address global humanitarian and health crises. NPR's Fautment Tannis has more on the findings of the report from the Lancet Commission on Health and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health.
The author say the aid sector has essentially become a big business driven by power, money, and prestige. They say it's fragmented under resource, unequal, and politicized. In interviews with hundreds of aid recipients, researchers learned that people couldn't really differentiate between the various NGOs and United Nations agencies.
Aid workers on the other hand said donors were dictating where the money should go. The report suggests big reforms are needed like shifting the power of decision-making from donors to affected communities and that money is flowing based on need, not politics. With the global aid system in flux now due to the funding cuts, researchers say it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform the system, Fautment Tannis and Pyrenees.
A beloved feline at Nebraska's State House's Retiring from Public Life, Cameron, the capital cat lived in a condo near the seat of power in Lincoln, but he's moving to a new home with his caretaker, according to Nebraska Public Media, Cameron took his civic duty seriously and frequent in the capital to ensure lawmakers were enacting the will of the people. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
We flush a lot of things down the toilet, you know, the obvious ones, but drugs like cocaine are also going down the drain and into our waterways. That's changing the animals that live in it.
