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The Trump administration is ratching up pressure on Cuba, the Justice Department as announced
“criminal charges against Cuban President role Castro.”
The charges stem for the 1996 shoot down of two civilian aircraft operated by the Miami-Based Exile Group, brothers to the rescue, impairs Ryan Lucas reports. The indictment charges role Castro, the brother of Fidel Castro, with murder, conspiracy to murder and destruction of aircraft, acting to turn a general Todd Blanch, announced the charges in Miami.
"Today's indictment, while it does not bring back the murdered victims, it makes a statement. The United States government has not forgotten these innocent men who were shot out of the sky." The indictment alleges that Castro authorized the shoot down of the two brothers to the rescue aircraft by Cuban military jets.
The three U.S. citizens and the U.S. national were killed. The 94-year-old Castro is not in U.S. custody. The case against him is seen as part of the Trump administration's pressure campaign against the Cuban government, Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington.
“"Who police officers who defended the Capitol during the January 6th riot are suing to stop”
the Trump administration from paying riders from a new anti-weaponization fund in Pierce Tom Drysbock reports." Washington DC police officer Daniel Hodges was repeatedly assaulted by rioters on January 6th. President Trump pardoned the men who attacked him, and now the administration says those
rioters and others can apply for payment from a new $1.8 billion fund set up by the Justice
Department for people who believe they were victims of weaponized law enforcement. Hodges is suing to stop payouts that he believes are both illegal and dangerous. "If they get this payout, then they'll have significant financial resources, and they have no ethical qualms about it. So what would stop them from carrying out any more violence?"
Trump administration officials say they will evaluate claims on a case-by-case basis. Tom Drysbock and PR News. Now to space acts, which has filed paperwork for what could be the biggest initial public offering in history, as in Pierschef Brumfield reports.
“SpaceX has already cornered the market on rocket launches, and it's built the world's only”
satellite internet service. Going forward, it wants to construct data centers in space, built bases on the moon, and eventually put humans on the surface of Mars. Reaching these goals could make SpaceX one of the most valuable companies in history, but to fulfill its ambitions, the financial disclosure shows SpaceX spending eye-watering amounts
of money. Last year, its AI division, XAI, spent close to $12 billion. The company spent another $3 billion developing its massive new rocket starship. Overall SpaceX lost money in the first quarter of this year, only its satellite internet service turned a profit, Jeff Brumfield and PR News.
This is MPR News. President Trump delivered the commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut and PR's Franco-ordonius reports that the President mixed in a bit of policy and politics. President Trump told cadets, "There's nothing that a Coast Guard's man can't do." And he said he wanted to offer some words of advice as they depart on new missions.
First, never give up. And whatever happens no matter where you are in life, or what situation you find yourself
in and in the seas, or anywhere else that you may be, keep pushing forward, always push
forward, never stop pushing forward. Trump also touted some of his administration's successes on trade and immigration. He told the cadets that China respects the U.S. military and that leaders in Toronto will either quote "sign the document," or the U.S. may have to hit Iran even harder. Franco-ordonius and PR News.
The White House. Hospital officials in New Mexico say nearly two dozen people were assessed and decontaminated today for possible exposure to an unknown substance. Many were first responders who were called to a rural home for a suspected drug overdose. State police say three of the four people found unresponsive at the home of Mountain
Air, east of Albuquerque, have died. The fourth still being treated. The judge in Indiana, allowing competitive eater, Joey Chestnut, to travel outside the state meaning he will be available to defend his hot dog eating title at the annual 4th of July contest on Coney Island.
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