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Live from MPR News, I'm trial Snyder.

In Miami Wednesday, Cuban American celebrated the criminal charges that Trump administration

is leveling against former Cuban President, Royal Castro.

Justice Department unsyled an indictment against a brother of the longtime Cuban President Fidel Castro, where I will now, 94, he charged with murder for his alleged role in the 1896 shoot down up to civilian planes operated by a Miami-based exile group for people were killed, including three Americans. Lord Esmerzon White celebrated with her father, a Cuban national who stood against Castro's

rule. To see if he can go back to the Cuba that he abandoned 68 years ago. Castro remains in Cuba where the government is calling the indictment of farce. House Republicans and Democrats passed a bill when they banning large corporate investors from buying more homes.

And Piero Stephen Pissahal reports a bill is also meant to address housing affordability.

The main idea in the bill to make housing more affordable is to throw a lot of ideas at the problem.

The bill is packed with new block grants, updates to old ones and deregulation.

Most of these provisions are meant to encourage home building across the country. This is a modified version of a bill the Senate passed two months ago. Both versions banned corporate landlords with at least 350 houses from buying up any more. Investors can build new homes to rent out, but the house version of the bill strips out the Senate's requirement that those houses get sold off after seven years.

The bill now heads back to the Senate to consider for final passage. Stephen Pissahal and Piero News. So overseas semiconductor makers Samsung Electronics has reached a tentative deal with labor unions of burning a possible strike and Piero's Anthony Cune is in Seoul. Management in labor reached a tentative agreement about an hour before the 18 day strike

was planned to start. The strike is now suspended while workers voteee their acceptor reject the proposed deal. The unions were asking for performance bonuses equal to 15% of the company's operating profits. The agreement is for them to get 10.5% of business performance earnings partly in stock with no cap over at least 10 years.

Semi-conductors account for more than a third of South Korea's exports and investment

in AI data centers is boosted chip demand. Government concerns about a strike prompted the country's labor minister to step in and mediate between the two sides. Anthony Cune and Piero News Seoul. For the second time in a week President Trump said Wednesday that he will speak with

Taiwan's leader about an arm sale opposed by China. The conversation between the two will be a sharp departure from the diplomatic norm U.S. and Taiwan leaders have not spoken directly since Washington shifted diplomatic recognition to Beijing in 1979. This isn't PR.

The Colorado Democratic Party has voted to formally center the state's top elected Democrat Governor Jared Poles for reducing the prison sentence of a former election clerk allied to President Trump from Colorado Public Radio Bent a Burkland reports. Former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters received a nearly nine-year sentence after she tampered with county voting machines to try to prove Trump's false claims of a stolen 2020 election.

The Democratic Governor said the sentence was too harsh. He also agreed with the state appeals court that her election denial believes improperly influence the length of her sentence and ordered her release on June 1st. Colorado Democrats say it's a dangerous and disappointing precedent that undermines the party and Democratic institutions.

Poles who leaves office in January is also banned from speaking at party events or attending as a featured guest. For M Piero News, I'm Bent a Burkland. Cruiser battling multiple wildfires in Southern California, including the Sandy Fire and Seamy Valley Northwest of Los Angeles, thousands remain under evacuation orders.

A Tennessee man jailed over a social media post about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has won an $835,000 settlement. Retire police officer Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail last year before authorities dropped the felony charge against him Bushart says he was exercising his free speech rights. This is M Piero News.

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