"Live from NPR News and Washington, I'm Windsor-Johnston.
The Justice Department is expected to once yield charges today against former Cuban President
Raul Castro, through tie to the 1996 shoot down of two civilian planes flown by a Miami-based exile group. Ahead of the expected announcement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a message marking Cuban Independence Day, and PR's Aida Perralza reports from Miami. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's Cuba is suffering not because of a U.S. blockade but because
their government has placed the good of a few insiders ahead of the good of the Cuban people.
“Rubio said the only thing in the way of a better future for Cuba is the people who control”
their country. "They said it when you're the suburb of your negocio."
"If owning your own business and having the right to vote is possible outside Cuba,"
he said, "Why is it not possible for you inside Cuba?" Rubio spoke as the Justice Department prepared to announce an indictment against former Cuban President Raul Castro. Cuba has said the U.S. is simply trying to justify any legal and inhumane military intervention against Cuba.
Aida Perralta and PR News, Miami. "Fresident Trump is delivering the commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut today, during his speech, Trump again appointed to the war in Iran." "Everything's gone, then Navy's gone, the report's has gone, just about everything."
“"The only questions do we go and finish it up, or are they going to be signing a document?”
Let's see what happens." Trump says Toronto is now facing a choice between reaching an agreement with the U.S. or risking further action. Two police officers who help defend the U.S. Capitol during the January 6th
insurrection are suing over a new $1.7 billion settlement fund.
The officers want to block anyone involved in the riot from receiving money through the program, which compensates people claiming they were politically targeted by prosecutors. The NAACP is calling on black athletes to withhold support from public universities and states that are rolling back voting rights, and PR's Christian Wright reports the request comes after a U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act.
The NAACP is urging black athletes who are being recruited by public universities and states weakening the power of black voters to not commit to going to those schools until those state governments restore fair congressional maps. The civil rights group is targeting eight states in the South, where major college football and basketball programs made up of mostly black players, Reagan, big money.
The NAACP is also asking college athletes to elevate the issue and call on leaders to speak out against racial redistricting. It's also urging alumni, donors, and fans to withhold financial support. Several Republican-led states are racing to redraw congressional districts in an effort to flip seats, effectively diluting black voting power, Christian Wright and PR news. This is NPR. The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in the
Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Uganda is spreading rapidly nearly 600 suspected cases have been reported and at least 139 deaths are under investigation. One American aid worker who was treating patients in Congo has tested positive and was evacuated for treatment in Germany. The National Trust for Historic Places has just released its annual list of the most endangered sites in the United States and PR's net-obey reports. The list of 11 places has a theme,
honoring the idea that all people are created equal. It includes the oldest Quaker Meeting House in Massachusetts and a few sites that have been affected by President Trump's administration, including the President's House in Philadelphia, where the National Park Service removed some information about enslaved people there. National Trust President Carol Quillin calls that historical erasure. That's a threat to preservation that we're also interested in protesting.
The National Trust is currently suing the Trump administration over its construction of a ballroom on White House grounds. NETA Ulippi and PR news. A fast-moving wild fire near Simee Valley, California has four thousands of people to evacuate their homes. The fire started Monday and Ventura County and has burned more than 1600 acres. It's already say at least one home has been destroyed and several neighborhoods remain under evacuation orders. On Wall Street,
the Dow is up 490 points. I'm Windsor-Johnston and PR News in Washington.
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