Current Events

What was supposed to be a quiet Memorial Day weekend at the White House has turned into one of the most consequential 72-hour stretches of Donald Trump's second term. Reports indicate the president abruptly redirected his holiday weekend plans to the Situation Room as negotiations to end the war with Iran enter what may be their final phase — with a sweeping peace deal that touches everything from highly enriched uranium to the Strait of Hormuz reportedly hanging in the balance.

Today is Cuban Independence Day. And for the Cuban exile community in Miami — a community that has waited 30 years, mourned four murdered men, and never stopped demanding accountability — today finally delivered something that decades of diplomacy, politics, and bureaucratic cowardice could not: justice. Justice for Carlos, Armando, Mario, & Pablo.

The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing a criminal indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, 94, in connection with the February 24, 1996 shootdown of two unarmed civilian aircraft operated by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue