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The Justice Department has formally indicted former Cuban president, Raul Castro, acting
“Attorney General Todd Blanche made the announcement at Miami's Freedom Tower just a short”
time ago. Today, we are announcing an indictment, charging rural Castro, and several others with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals. And P. R. Zader Perral to reports the charges stem from Castro's alleged involvement in the downing of two American planes in 1996.
The two planes belong to a group called Brothers to the rescue, which used to fly over the streets of Florida, alerting the Coast Guard of Cuban migrants in trouble, on several occasions the planes flew into Cuban airspace dropping anti-government leaflets. In February of 1996, the Cuban Air Force shot down two sessness. The U.S. claims then defense minister Raul Castro ordered the shooting, Michael Bustamantes,
studies Cuba at the University of Miami, and he says this is bigger than historical justice. The indictment is part of a broader U.S. move to pressure the Cuban government to change. It also sets the table, extensively for the thing that the administration lacked.
“If they ever did want to escalate to military action, which was a pretext to do so.”
In January, the U.S. used the indictment of Nicolas Maduro to remove him from office in Venezuela. It brought up in Pernos, Miami. A former Trump administration official has filed the first known claim under the Justice
Department's new $1.7 billion anti-weaponization fund.
Michael Cabuto says he was targeted for a political retaliation and is seeking $2.7 million in restitution and reimbursement. The fund was created to compensate individuals who claimed they were unfairly targeted by the federal government. The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
and neighbouring Uganda has likely seconded at least 600 people. And PR's Jonathan Lambert reports more than 130 people have died from the virus. This Ebola outbreak is already the third largest on record, despite only being declared last Friday.
“And a press conference on Wednesday, WHO officials said that given the scale, the outbreak”
likely started a couple months ago and was spreading undetected. Here's WHO Director General Tedros Adonam Gabriacius. WHO assists the risk of the epidemic as the high, at the national, regional levels and low at the global level. The kind of a bowl of that spreading is rare and existing field tests often miss it.
There are also no approved treatments or vaccines, WHO officials said that while there are a couple of vaccine candidates that might be tested, they won't be ready for that testing for months. Jonathan Lambert and PR News. On Wall Street, the Dow was up 538 points.
This is NPR News. Former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank has died at the age of 86.
Frank was one of the first openly gay members of Congress and helped shape the landmark
Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Law after the 2008 financial crisis. Parts of the West Coast are in the midst of a record-breaking Marine heat wave. And PR's Nate Rot reports the effects of the heat are washing up on California's coasts. Beach surveys are conducted the first week of every month in southern California. Volunteers in scientists like Tammy Russel, Wach Sandy Beach is looking for buttons.
There's another common bird. Russel isn't born a phologist at the Script's Institution of Oceanography. And she says, for months, they've been seeing a spike in dead seabirds. This one is pretty new. Former Ants, Murders, Greeds, Pelicans.
It's unlike anything I've ever seen. Temperatures have been 3-7 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than normal, along most of the California coasts in winter, disrupting food webs. And with an El Niño likely in the months ahead, more heat may be on the horizon. Nate Rot and PR News
The NAACP is calling on Black athletes and fans to boycott major college athletic programs in several southern states over voting rights concerns. A new campaign is targeting public universities and states redrawing congressional maps after a recent Supreme Court ruling week in part of the voting rights act. The ever could put pressure on some of the nation's biggest college football and basketball
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