Lime from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, the US has indicted Cuba'...
Raul Castro on charges, including murder.
“That's in connection with the downing of two civilian aircraft 30 years ago, the killed”
four people. The indictment came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a Spanish language video yesterday directed at Cubans. He blamed current conditions in Cuba on the island's government. Some Cuban Americans in Miami cheered him.
Cuba's energy grid keeps failing as the Trump administration has imposed an oil blockade on the island. Some are looking at what happened to former Venezuelan leader, Nicolas Maduro, the US military took him from Caracas in early January to New York. That is where Maduro is now facing, US drug trafficking charges.
President Trump is demanding that Republicans fire the Senate Parliamentarian. NPR's Franco Ardonis says Trump is angry after she ruled, funding for the White House Ballroom would not be included in an immigration enforcement bill.
“The president accused Elizabeth McDonald on social media of bias, and impeding his agenda.”
He called on Republicans to quote, "get smart and tough," or else risk looking for another job. Trump is long-attacked procedure hurdles in Congress that he argues have thwarted his legislative goals. He also press Republicans to eliminate the filibuster in order to pass his voter ID bill.
He warned that his party will never have another Republican president if members don't
reduce the 60 vote threshold required to beat a Democratic filibuster or fire the parliamentarian. The Senate majority leader John Thun though has so far resisted calls from the president to fire McDonald, Franco, Ordonis, and Piano News, the White House. The private company SpaceX has filed paperwork for what could be the biggest initial public offering in history.
As NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports, its financial disclosures show the company's ambitions and how much it is spending.
“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 disclosures 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. For all SpaceX's lost money in the first quarter of this year, only its satellite internet service turned a profit, Jeff Brumfield and PR News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Russian President Vladimir Putin has departed China after a two-day state visit with Chinese
President Xi Jinping this came only days after President Trump was there. However, there's no word on whether Putin and Xi agreed on a major gas pipeline between their countries the project has been stalled. Tonight, comics, Stephen Colbert, says goodbye to the late night show he is hosted for 11 years.
CBS, Paramount Plus, canceled it, citing financial reasons. But as NPR's Monday late, the barco reports, his fans say it's because of Colbert's continuous criticism of President Trump.
Stephen Colbert has never stopped roasting Donald Trump, though he never directly blamed
the President for getting cancelled, but many of his friends and fans have. On the eve of his finale, Colbert invited on some of his famous friends, including Billy Crystal, Amy Saderas, and Robert De Nero, then he welcomed musical guest, Bruce Springsteen. "We're the first guy in America who's lost his shield because we've got a president who can't take a joke."
Springsteen also called out Trump Loyalist Larry Ellison and a son David Ellison, who owns CBS Paramount Plus, then he sang an anti-Trump anthem about ICE agents who killed protesters were naked and Alex Pretty. "Who remembers the names of those who don't." Colbert ends his show tonight with a surprise guest, Monday late at the barco NPR News.
There is a new champion in the professional women's hockey league, the Montreal Victoire, defeated the Ottawa charge last night for nothing. Montreal took the Walter Cup final in the fourth, the five games. I'm poor Coleman and PR News in Washington. It can be hard to keep up with all the new movies on streaming services, how do you tell
the good ones worth watching from the bad, or the silly ones you can laugh along with or at. On NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we're recommending some fun movies you may have missed. Listen via the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
