TODAY  US Indicts Former Cuban President

CUBA LIBRE: The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against Cuba’s former president, 94-year-old Raúl Castro, charging him with murder and a conspiracy to kill US citizens in shooting down two US passenger planes 30 years ago.

YESTERDAY  Justice Dept. Gives Trump IRS Immunity

INSIDE DEAL: The Internal Revenue Service agreed not to pursue tax issues, audits, and even indictments for President Trump, members of his family, and businesses in exchange for the President dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the agency.

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   Four people died in 1996 when Cuban jets shot down two planes run by Brothers to the Rescue, a Cuban exile group that flew over the sea looking for fleeing Cubans on the water. Cuba’s original revolutionary leader Fidel Castro,  Raúl’s brother,  claimed credit, saying that the organization had dropped anti-regime leaflets...

  The Trump administration is ratcheting up pressure for regime change in Cuba, including cutting off the supply of oil to the island country. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a video calling on the Cuban people to align with the Trump administration as it seeks to weaken the regime.

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HOLDING FIRE: President Trump announced yesterday that at the request of leaders from three Persian Gulf countries he’s going to “hold off on our planned Military attack of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was scheduled for tomorrow.”   The request, according …

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Monday, May 18, 2026

PRAY FOR US: Thousands of people gathered yesterday on the National Mall in Washington for a nine-hour Christian prayer festival advertised as “a rededication of our country as One Nation Under God.” It was part of the campaign by the evangelical …

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CHINA SYNDROME: Between official meetings, President Trump bristled online at Xi Jinping’s suggestion that the US is a declining nation, saying, “he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden …

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It's Been Said

"Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."

  • Donald Trump courting the vote of the Christian right