>> Live from NPR news on trial Snyder, the Cuban government is dismissing the U.
government's indictment of former President role Castro on murder and other charges as a force. The announcement came Wednesday, and Miami impures ate her porral to his there.
“>> 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, and this January, American soldiers swooped into Caracas, and they brought him to a jail in Brooklyn. I spoke to Michael Wustamante, 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 de facto oil blockade.
They've announced new sanctions on basically the whole Cuban leadership.
Wustamante says the thing the Trump administration was missing was a pretext for some kind of military action, and this might be exactly that. Our whole Castro is now 94 years old, the Justice Department's indictment charges in for his alleged role. In the 1996 shoot down of two civilian planes operated by a Miami-based exile group for people
were killed, including three Americans. Justice Department is also indicted a former federal prosecutor for sending a copy of Special
“Council Jack Smith's report on the investigation into President Trump's classified documents”
case. Prosecutors alleged that Carmen Mercedes-Line Burger emailed a copy of the report to a personal email in January 2025, and tried to hide the fact that she was doing this. The grand jury indictment says she's downloaded the documents and emailed them a titles like chocolatetakerecipee.pdf.
The indictment doesn't say what Line Burger planned to do with the documents. At the time, a federal judge had ordered the report sealed. The judge, Eileen Cannon, has since ordered the report permanently sealed. Line Burger served as the Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney in Fort Pierce, Florida. She pleaded not guilty to forefell any charges, including the theft of government property.
Jacqueline Diaz and PR News. SpaceX's file paperwork for what could be the biggest initial public offering in history years in Pierce, Jeff Bromfield. 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, build 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 Bromfield and PR News. This is NPR.
To police officers who defended the capital during the January 6 capital riot are suing to stop the Trump administration from paying rioters from a new anti-weaponization fund. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday and federal court in Washington, D.C., the Trump administration is not ruled out. The possibility that rioters would be eligible for payouts, saying it will evaluate claims
on a case-by-case basis. The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has likely sickened more than 600 people, and PR's Jonathan Lambert reports.
This Ebola outbreak is already the third largest on record, despite only being declared
last Friday. At 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 Aranam Gabriacius. WHO assists the risk of the epidemic as the high at the national and regional levels
and low at the global level. The kind of Ebola 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. "Asian shares tracking Wednesday's gains on Wall Street, South Korean stocks have jumped more than 8% and shares in Japan and Taiwan are up more than 3%. The advances come after pressure from the bond market eased and a pullback in oil prices. I'm Dreil Snyder, NPR News."
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