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Host Mark Corbett sits down with Merrie Fidler, the foremost historian of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), to explore the league's remarkable history, from its wartime origins to its ambitious international expansion plans, and the ongoing revival of women's baseball today.Topics CoveredHow Merrie discovered the AAGPBL through a 1943 Time Magazine article while pursuing her master's degree in sport history at UMass AmherstHer years of primary research, interviewing former players, coaches, and executives, and spending a week at the Wrigley Building in Chicago going through Arthur Meyerhoff's filesThe origins of the league under Philip Wrigley, who designed it around baseball rules (not softball) and emphasized femininity to attract upper-class civic supportThe AAGPBL's historic 1947 spring training in Cuba, where teams drew 15,000 to 20,000 fans at Havana's grand stadium, and the 1948 expansion attempts in Tampa, Miami, and DaytonaMeyerhoff's vision for an international women's baseball league spanning Cuba, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, and why it never materializedThe Cuban players recruited into the league, including Isabel Alvarez, who joined at age 14 and played for the Fort Wayne DaisiesThe role of players like Senaida "Shoo Shoo" Wirth as interpreters for the Cuban recruitsWhy the league ultimately declined: cuts to publicity, player development, and promotion after team administrators bought out Meyerhoff in 1951The 1988 Baseball Hall of Fame exhibit recognizing the AAGPBL, and the impact of the 1992 film A League of Their OwnMerrie's published book on the league's history (McFarland, 2003)Upcoming events: the International Women's Baseball World Cup (Group Stage) in Rockford, IL (home of the Peaches) and the AAGPBL reunion in Rockford; plus the Women's Pro Baseball League in SpringfieldKey TakeawaysThe AAGPBL played baseball, not softball, from its earliest years, with overhand pitching phased in by 1948Meyerhoff's marketing genius (hiring league-city sports editors as scorekeepers, daily newspaper game coverage) was central to the league's successThe decline of the league was driven less by TV or the end of WWII than by the decision to cut spending on promotion and player developmentWomen's baseball is growing again. Follow players like Kelsie Whitmore and Danae Benitez on social mediaResources MentionedAAGPBL website: aagpbl.orgMerrie Fidler's book - The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball LeagueHistory Museum of South Bend, Indiana, national repository for AAGPBL archives
When the luxury liner SS Morro Castle erupted in flames off the New Jersey coast in 1934, it left behind 137 dead, a captain's corpse that vanished before it could be examined, and a heroic radio operator whose criminal past suggested he may have started the fire himself. | #WDRadio June 14, 2026==========HOUR ONE: Jeannie Saffin already had a tough life, being born with a birth defect that stunted her mental growth, leaving her with the mind of a child, never getting married and having kids, never dating… but that all pales in comparison to how she died: bursting into flames for no apparent reason. Was Jeannie Saffin the victim of spontaneous human combustion? (The Spontaneous Combustion of Jeannie Saffin) *** Sometimes it's easy to get a girl to go out with you – just be polite and ask. Some men resort to cheesy pickup lines thinking it will help their chances. But one man chose to call upon a woman in a very unusual way… by purchasing a gravestone. (Pitching Woo With a Tombstone) *** If a man demands his girlfriend give up the baby they conceived, otherwise he would no longer be with the woman – what is that newborn's mother to do? Sadly, Emily Dunn made the wrong decision – with tragic results. (The Durbin Baby Murder) *** The transplanting of an organ is almost a routine procedure now in the 21st century – even doing a transplant of an arm or a leg isn't uncommon. But when you talk about transplanting a living head onto a dead body – that's when things get tricky. But Robert White thought it could be done – and even tried doing it. (The Man Who Wanted To Do a Head Transplant) *** Imagine getting onto a plane and once in the air finding out that the pilot wasn't qualified to fly that kind of plane – and that he was only there because the original pilot wasn't available due to being dead. That's what happened in 1934 on the boat, the SS Morro Castle. And it was the beginning of tragedy after tragedy. (Mystery, Mismanagement, and Mayhem on the SS Morro Castle)==========HOUR TWO: In June of 2009 a man calling himself Peter Bergmann checked in to a hotel in Sligo Town. Five days later his body was found on Rosses Point Beach. But Peter Bergmann was not Peter Bergmann – so who was he? (The Peter Bergmann Mystery) *** Sharing stories from people who are frightened by a bump in the night or a strange shadow on the wall in their bedroom is one thing, but when you get professional ghost hunters telling of the scariest experiences they've had, you know it has to be some freaky stuff. (Scariest Experiences of Ghost Hunters) ==========SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: More of the scariest experiences of ghost hunters! *** I'll tell you about that time when a dam failed – and because of it, people were legally allowed to marry the dead. And still do to this day. (That Time A Failed Dam Led to Marrying Corpses) *** Personal experiences of those who have stayed at the Wolf Creek Inn, plus some hard evidence, seems to indicate that spirits who haunt the place are not only benign in nature, but even protect the guests and owners from other malevolent spirits which roam there as well. (Haunts at Wolf Creek Inn)==========SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT'S SHOW:“Mystery, Mismanagement, and Mayhem on the SS Morro Castle” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/56jb9c7j“The Man Who Wanted To Do a Head Transplant” by Gary Krist for the Washington Post: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/39d2k9pw“The Durbin Baby Murder” posted at Murders In History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/c96z9kst“Pitching Woo With a Tombstone” from the New York Journal, posted at The Victorian Book of the Dead website:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/utw6vh45“The Spontaneous Combustion of Jeannie Saffin” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/e6as67fn“That Time A Failed Dam Led to Marrying Corpses” by Kaushik Patowary for Amusing Planet: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/zyrxx43k“Scariest Experiences of Ghost Hunters” by Amanda Ashley for Graveyard Shift:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y7tx3a2t“Haunts at Wolf Creek Inn” posted at HauntedHouses.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yadzm4ae“The Peter Bergmann Mystery” by Rosita Boland for Irish Times: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/9b44kfs==========(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for material I use whenever possible. If I have overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it immediately. Some links may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)=========="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46==========WeirdDarkness®, WeirdDarkness© 2026==========To become a Weird Darkness Radio Show affiliate, contact Radio America at mailto:affiliates@radioamerica.com, or call 800-807-4703 (press 2 or dial ext 250).==========https://weirddarkness.com/WDR20260614This episode of Weird Darkness moves from a burning luxury liner off the New Jersey coast to a fire-scarred kitchen in London, a body on an Irish beach, a drowned infant in Illinois, a collapsed French dam that legalized marrying the dead, and a haunted stagecoach inn in Oregon — with a head-transplant surgeon and a tombstone-shopping widower along the way.It opens with the SS Morro Castle, the 508-foot American ocean liner that ferried wealthy passengers between New York and Havana during Prohibition until September 8, 1934, when its captain, Robert Wilmott, dropped dead the night before departure and a fire of unknown origin erupted in a B Deck storage locker on the voyage home. Replacement captain William Warms steered into gale-force winds and waited 38 minutes to send a distress call, paint-gummed lifeboats refused to lower, untrained passengers broke their necks jumping in faulty life jackets, and at least 137 of the 549 aboard died before the charred hulk ran aground at Asbury Park, New Jersey, where souvenir stands sprang up around the wreck. Suspicion later fell on chief radio operator George White Rogers, the disaster's celebrated hero, whose hidden history of arson convictions, an aquarium-heater bomb built to maim a police lieutenant asking too many questions, and a double murder ended with his sudden death in Trenton State Prison — and the disappearance of his prison records.From there the episode lightens briefly with a pair of newspaper accounts of courtship by gravestone: an 1896 story from the Cincinnati Enquirer about a widower who finally bought a $50 monument for his wife of five years past — not out of grief, but to impress a wealthy widow who had called him too cheap to mark the grave — and a 1924 item from the Kansas City Star about a Kansas woman who married a widower precisely because he kept his first wife's grave so well.Next comes Dr. Robert J. White, the Cleveland neurosurgeon who watched the first successful human kidney transplant in Boston in 1954 and spent the rest of his life pursuing something far stranger: transplanting a living human head onto a donor body. In March 1970 he performed the operation on monkeys, moving one animal's head onto another's decapitated body in an 18-hour surgery; the hybrid lived nine days. White, a devout Catholic who sparred publicly with journalist Oriana Fallaci and animal rights activist Ingrid Newkirk, came close to attempting the procedure on a quadriplegic human volunteer through Russia's medical system before he died in 2010, leaving behind questions about consciousness, identity, and death that medicine has yet to answer.The hour then turns to Jeannie Saffin, a 61-year-old London woman with the mental capacity of a child who, on September 15, 1982, burst into flames while sitting calmly at her father's kitchen table in Edmonton with her hands in her lap. Her father Jack and brother-in-law Don Carroll doused the fire, but Jeannie — burned to the subcutaneous fat on her face, hands, and abdomen — never screamed, slipped into a coma, and died eight days later. The chair she sat in was unmarked, the nearest flame was a shielded pilot light five feet away, and a police constable concluded it was spontaneous human combustion, a verdict the coroner rejected. Skeptic Joe Nickell's pipe-ember theory accounts for some details, but not how a human body ignited so completely in under two minutes while burning nothing around it.Then the mystery of Peter Bergmann: the tall, gray-haired man with an Austrian accent who arrived in Sligo, Ireland by bus on June 12, 2009, checked into the Sligo City Hotel under a false name and a fabricated Vienna address, and over three days left the hotel thirteen times carrying a full purple plastic bag — returning empty-handed each time, never once caught by CCTV disposing of anything. He bought ten international stamps, cut the labels from his clothes, folded them neatly on a rock at Rosses Point Beach, and was found dead at the water's edge the next morning near Dead Man's Point. The autopsy revealed terminal prostate cancer he could not have been unaware of, yet he died of cardiac arrest, not dr
In this episode of Shit Platypus Says, members Laurie R, Cam H, and Ethan L dig into the archives for a wide-ranging conversation on Cuba. Together, they trace Cuba's historical role in the socialist imagination and ask what the latest crisis means in the shadow of the twentieth century. Their discussion is interspersed with highlights from an interview members Ben K. and Mohammad H. conducted with Steve Eckardt of the Chicago Cuba Coalition. Listen for a reflective conversation on whether, and how, Cuba still matters for anyone trying to think seriously about the past, present, and future of the Left. ----- Links: Fidel Castro, “The Universal Conscience,” speech to the Cultural Congress of Havana, January 1968, in The New Left Reader, ed. Carl Oglesby (New York: Grove Press, 1969), 186–206. Ethan Linehan, “The revolution marooned: Cuba and the Left,” in Platypus Review 114 (March 2019) https://platypus1917.org/2019/03/02/the-revolution-marooned-cuba-and-the-left/ C.D. Hardy, “Cuba and Trotskyism's breakdown,” in Platypus Review 116 (May 2019) https://platypus1917.org/2019/05/01/cuba-and-trotskyisms-breakdown/ Joseph Hansen, "Cuba- The Acid Test: A Reply to the Ultra-Left Sectarians" https://www.marxists.org/archive/hansen/1962/11/acidtest.htm Tom Kerry, "Anatomy of Stalinism" (1972) Kerry's remarks about Cuba are in the Q&A, which is not included in the published Education for Socialists pamphlet (pdf below), but audio is available online, link below in three parts. https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/swp-us/education/anatomy-of-stalinism.pdf Audio, part 1:https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/etol/audio/kerry/The%20Anatomy%20of%20Stalinism%20Part%201.mp3 Audio, part 2: https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/etol/audio/kerry/The%20Anatomy%20of%20Stalinism%20Part%202.mp3 Audio, part 3: https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/etol/audio/kerry/The%20Anatomy%20of%20Stalinism%20Part%203.mp3 C. Wright Mills, Listen, Yankee! (1960) https://archive.org/details/listenyankeerevo0000mill
Listen to the full episode here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru404-zahid-chaudhary-on-paranoid Join Rendering Unconscious Podcast at Substack for all new and archival episodes: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Zahid R. Chaudhary to the podcast! He's here to talk about his new book Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth (Fordham University Press, 2025). https://fordhampress.com/paranoid-publics-hb-9781531511869.html Rendering Unconscious episode 404. On this episode, Zahid presents his newest book Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth, which explores the relationship between truth, power, and the psyche. The book, influenced in part by the work of Michel Foucault and psychoanalytic theory, examines the rise of QAnon, the concept of freedom in political movements, and the impact of social realities on the body, as seen in cases like the Havana syndrome and resignation syndrome. The discussion also touches on the challenges of integrating psychoanalysis into political theory and the persistence of group think. Zahid plans to continue exploring such themes in future work, including techno-fascism and impunity. Zahid R. Chaudhary is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India (2012). https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816677498/afterimage-of-empire/ RU News & Events: On Wednesday, June 24th, join Freudian cinephile Mary Wild for The Man Who Fell Into Himself: David Bowie's 1970s Transformations. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-man-who-fell-into-himself-david-bowies-1970s-transformations-tickets-1986912621136 The next Introduction to Psychoanalysis class meets Saturday, July 11th. We will be discussing Lacan. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/introduction-to-psychoanalysis-with All paid subscribers to RU Center for Psychoanalysis will receive the zoom links to attend these events live and the recordings will be archived at Substack. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com Full archive of RU Center events and CLASSES HERE: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/t/classes See RU Center SCHEDULE OF EVENTS HERE: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/schedule Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursuing psychoanalytic treatment or supervision with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank You.
Welcome to PTBN Pop's Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today's episode, Andy Atherton is watching “Sister Havana” by Urge Overkill from 1993. The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzFlPdHt1Gk
What does it take to go from sneaking into rumba rehearsals as a kid in Santa Clara, Cuba, to becoming arguably the greatest living drummer on earth?Dafnis Prieto is a Grammy Award winner, MacArthur "Genius" Fellow and one of the most gifted drummers alive. On faculty at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, he has three self-published books studied worldwide. Host Dana Leong has known him personally since Dana was 15 and Dafnis was 21. This is the conversation we've been waiting 30 years to have.Follow Dafnis: https://www.dafnisonmusic.com | https://linktr.ee/DafnisPrietoListen and watch everywhere:YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@UpgradeMePodSpotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7JPSb9vRaEqHt39hWXBVOYApple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/upgrademe-with-dana-leong/id1751136432Patreon http://www.patreon.com/UpgradeMePodChapters:0:00 Cold open - "I'm going to become the healthiest person that ever died"2:15 Meet Dafnis Prieto - Grammy winner, MacArthur Genius, arguably the greatest drummer alive5:00 Why he always reminds himself of the reason he chose this life10:20 Inner world vs outer world - separating frustration from purpose14:45 What every world-class performer actually has in common17:00 Born in Santa Clara - only child, divorced parents, a mom who said yes22:30 From guitar to bongos - the House of Culture and a Cuban band26:00 Eight years of classical training - Santa Clara to Havana's National School30:15 The Big Bang - Carlos Masa, Hermeto Pascoal, and Ravi Shankar at 1435:40 First tour at 18 - special school permit, Cuba straight to Paris40:10 Getting paid in Cuba vs Paris - "a big whale and a sardine"44:30 The assembly line story - trains, 30 seconds, and Cuban teamwork51:20 The Village Voice era - how European bookers discovered New York artists55:00 "If Jesus Christ was in Times Square nobody cares" - social media and the fake artist problem1:00:10 Marketing vs selling your soul - the tension every serious artist lives with1:05:30 Why live music still matters - Dana's mom at 80, Taiwan's National Concert Hall1:10:00 Integrity as a total way of being1:15:20 The hidden instruments - classical guitar, flamenco, marimba1:19:45 Why Cuba produces champions - "you do twice the work"1:23:30 The 24/7 conservatory - living inside the National School of Music1:28:00 Getting out of Cuba - exit permits, bureaucracy, and the Stanford invitation1:34:20 Cuba sent one guy - and they sent the right one1:39:10 Cuban culture as the deep root1:43:00 The global political climate and what it means for artists1:47:00 "There is value in the objective but there is potential in the subjective"1:51:00 Pancho Quinto - tradition as a point of departure1:57:00 Learning English in New York - a notebook and self-teaching2:01:00 Mentorship at Frost School - Marcelo Perez, Bob Moses, the drum quartet2:07:00 Why Dafnis doesn't sign up for teaching - but gives it everything2:12:00 The frying pan on the drum kit - carnival, sneaking out, Chinatown2:18:00 Long-term musical relationships - what makes a real band2:23:00 The social media dilemma - practice vs posting2:29:00 Building character before the digital age - Coltrane, Chaplin2:34:00 "Don't wait for anyone to make yourself poor"2:38:00 Final words - if you have a dream, go for itUpgradeMe is hosted by Dana Leong, a 2x Grammy Winning Musician, US Music Ambassador and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Sponsored by https://www.TEKTONIKmusic.org (Harmony Heals).
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" gives a first look to the stories you need to know to start your day including President Trump unloading on newly nominated Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, calling him a "low-level thug" while reaffirming his support for Senator Susan Collins as Republicans prepare to make Platner's Nazi tattoo controversy, personal scandals, and past conduct a central issue in the race; Pete Hegseth issuing a stark warning to Cuba after reports that Havana has acquired hundreds of military drones from Russia and Iran capable of threatening American territory and Guantanamo Bay; and the Trump administration defending World Cup visa restrictions after several Iranian officials, journalists, referees, and other visitors were denied entry over national security, terrorism, and public health concerns, and much more.
Author Jordan Harper joins to discuss the process and inspirations behind his stories before Tyler Parker takes us through The Doomscroll. In this episode: (00:00) Intro (3:33) Jordan Harper on crime and noir in L.A. (37:27) The Doomscroll: Black Dahlia update (40:59) Marxist AI (44:11) Yogurt shop murder convictions overturned (45:43) Long Island serial killer (47:20) Trump's sushi investment (50:00) Havana syndrome update (52:14) Luxury survivalist community Hosts: Jason Concepcion and Tyler Parker Guest: Jordan Harper Producers: Donnie Beacham and Justin Sayles Art direction: David Shoemaker Motion graphics and animations: Chris Calleton Engineering: Sarah Reddy Set design: Hannah Leiken and Jonathan Ratliff Additional Support: Dae Shik Kim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
U.S. President Donald Trump has insisted that he will have the “honor of taking Cuba.” Although the administration has not specified what that might mean, following interventions in Venezuela and Iran over the past six months, there is reason to take seriously the possibility of some kind of forceful U.S. action, including military action. Already, a combination of U.S. pressure and the Cuban government's own failures has resulted in unrelentingly dire conditions on the island—leading many to expect some kind of break before long. In recent weeks, two of the sharpest observers of Cuba and U.S. policy toward Cuba have written essays in Foreign Affairs on the choices facing policymakers in both Havana and Washington. Michael Bustamante is chair of Cuba and Cuban-American studies at the University of Miami. And Ricardo Zuniga is a longtime U.S. official who served at the embassy in Havana and helped lead the secret talks that brought the Obama administration's opening to Cuba. Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke with Bustamante and Zuniga on June 8 about what U.S. policymakers could and should do in the coming weeks and months—and what those decisions will mean for Cuba's future. You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview.
Welcome back to another episode of Just Ask the Press! Brian is joined by national security expert Mark S. Zaid and journalism professor Nolan Higdon to dissect a chaotic week in American politics, global conflicts, and government restructuring. We kick things off with Donald Trump's explosive, rainy interview on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, followed by his historic—and heavily booed—appearance at the NBA Finals in Manhattan. Plus, a massive institutional cover-up regarding Havana Syndrome is reaching a breaking point as Tulsi Gabbard prepares to exit the ODNI. We also break down the legal fallout of John Bolton's impending felony plea deal and explain how recent DOGE budget cuts just brought a dangerous, cattle-killing parasite back to the American workforce—and what it means for your grocery bill. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JATQPodcast Follow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/jatqpodcast.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jatqpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCET7k2_Y9P9Fz0MZRARGqVw This show is available ad-free and early for Patreon supporters here: https://www.patreon.com/justaskthequestionpodcast Purchase Brian's book "Free The Press". Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
I've been doing this long enough to say that it's kind of a big deal to hear a song that stops you dead in your tracks. A song so urgent, fresh and timely that you remember where you were and what you were doing when you first heard it. Well, Reckoning by the Havana-by-way-of-Nashville based Sweet Lizzy Project is such a song. In this episode, SLP singer/songwriter Lisset Diaz makes her annual appearance to discuss how this powerhouse of a song came together—and so much more. Reckoning is a blistering take on Lisset's native Cuba; it is a raw, honest song that takes no prisoners. Musically it hits hard—loud, crunching guitars barely hold Lisset's soaring vocals. Lyrically it hits even harder; it is a direct hit against the existing Cuban regime and all those who think they know what truly ills the country. This is also my first interview with Lisset since the passing of legendary Mavericks' frontman Raul Malo, who discovered the band in Havana nearly 10 years ago and brought them to the States. This episode is as emotional, honest and direct as any I've ever done…perhaps more so than any other. So strap yourself in and hold on as Lisset Diaz joins me again.
For review:1. US Defense Secretary on Wednesday said the future of Cuba is in the hands of President Trump and Havana's leadership amid increased U.S. pressure on the communist-ruled island.“No matter what, the Department of War is going to be prepared and postured for any possible contingency,” Sec Hegseth told troops during a visit to the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.2. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said two U.S. Army aviators “got very lucky” after an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter was downed by Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, emphasizing that US retaliation is not over.Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, the president declared, “We hit them hard yesterday and we're going to hit them hard again today.”3. US President Donald Trump said the US would be attacking Iran again on Wednesday, indicating that Tuesday night's strikes against the regime were only the first part of Washington's retaliation against the Islamic Republic for shooting down an American military helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz.4. US Central Command confirms it has launched fresh “self-defense strikes” on “multiple targets in Iran at the direction” of President Donald Trump.5. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says that it struck bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in response to the latest US strikes.6. The United States and Iran have honed in on four key points of negotiation during talks to permanently end the fighting that began with a joint US-Israeli offensive back in February, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.According to the newspaper, the deal will include agreements on an extended suspension of uranium enrichment by Iran; the dilution of Tehran's existing stockpile of enriched uranium; the dismantling of Iranian nuclear sites; and the right for international nuclear watchdogs to conduct snap inspections in the Islamic Republic.7. Iraq and the United Arab Emirates are fast-tracking plans to expand oil pipelines to replace the capacity lost by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, as new data reveals their stark dependency on the Persian Gulf. 8. The Franco-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System (FCAS) has collapsed following the failure of industrial mediation between Dassault and Airbus on several issues, multiple reports said Monday.9. The House Appropriations Committee released its $1 trillion defense spending bill for FY27.
At the start of the Cuban Revolution, Adela Ferrer's husband made an impossible decision. Her husband had fled Havana for New York, and she planned to take her two children and join him. But instead, she was forced to bring only her daughter, leaving her 9-year-old son behind. That daughter – Ada Ferrer – is out with a new memoir called Keeper of My Kin. In today's episode, she speaks with NPR's Adrian Florido about the weight of family separation in Cuba and the difficulty of being “the chosen one.”To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR's book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookofthedaySee pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy
What happened in Havana, Cuba? What is Havana syndrome and what caused it? Was it sound waves? Were they cooking their brains or was it just some cicadas being too loud. Go down the rabbit hole with Brandon and lets see what we can figure out.
Romina Espinosa — Red Romina — has been to 81 countries, published a book of poems at 15, built a film production company, appeared in Hollywood movies, founded a creator events community, and started a movement called Reject 9 to 5. She also has ADD. She manages it without medication most days. And she never once had a backup plan. This is a 100-minute conversation about what it actually looks like to live entirely on your own terms.
Few of us ask what the words of the Declaration of Independence actually meant to the men who wrote them — or how much help they had from places like Havana and Madrid. Renowned author and historian Felipe Fernández‑Armesto has spent his career studying colonialism, empire and the Hispanic roots of the Americas. In this Outspoken conversation, he helps us see the Declaration through 18th‑century eyes and reminds us that the United States has always been more Latin American than we tend to admit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode is a recap of our trip to RI and MR. J's 6th anniversary celebration. We also visited Tammany Hall, The Gentleman Cigar Lounge, and The Ale House Cigar Bar. We also get a surprise PA report. The Hidden Herf is back to the traditional format that stumps the panel. Local Spotlight – Mr. … Continue reading "Episode 447: The Rhode Island Report – Local Spotlight: Mr. J's Havana Cigar Lounge; Coventry, RI"
In this ITV News explainer, we examine why tensions between the United States and Cuba are escalating, how Donald Trump's approach to foreign policy has fuelled speculation about Cuba's future, and what options could be on the table for Washington.Presented by ITV News reporter Will Tullis, this video explores the historical roots of US-Cuba hostility, the impact of decades of sanctions and embargoes, and the growing economic crisis facing ordinary Cubans.We look at whether increased pressure on Havana could lead to regime change, a “friendly takeover”, further economic isolation, or a worsening humanitarian situation.Featuring expert analysis from ITV News US Correspondent Dan Rivers and Lillian Guerra, professor of Cuban and Caribbean history at the University of Florida, the video breaks down the political, military and economic factors shaping the relationship between Washington and Havana.
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: Cracks are beginning to emerge inside Vladimir Putin's ruling coalition as influential oligarchs, political insiders, and even some longtime war hawks question whether Russia can achieve victory in Ukraine. A new ceasefire agreement could bring calm to Israel's northern border. We break down what's in the deal, what it means for regional security, and why Hezbollah remains the critical wildcard. Western intelligence officials are warning that Chinese operatives are increasingly using LinkedIn to identify and recruit potential intelligence sources. We'll explain how the effort works and who is being targeted. In today's Back of the Brief—President Trump expands sanctions on Cuba in what analysts describe as one of the most significant crackdowns on the communist regime in decades, targeting not only Havana but foreign entities that help keep it afloat. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President's Daily Brief by visiting https://PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Blocktrust: Move your retirement into the next generation of assets, go to https://mikebakercrypto.com now to claim your $2,500 Bitcoin bonus. Tax Relief Advocates: End your tax nightmare today by visiting us online at https://TRA.com or call 800-583-6515 Chapter: Compare every medicare plan call 915-671-5252 today! Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan's contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don't directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact https://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
War Room US Attorney Launches Sweeping Election Fraud Probe in California, Gabbard to Declassify Covid Coverup & Havana Syndrome Documents Before Exit… PLUS, NY Dems Pass Bill Replacing “Mother” & “Father” With “Gestating” and “Non-Gestating Parent” & Tempers Flare Outside Karmelo Anthony Trial
Hơn sáu thập niên qua, Hoa Kỳ đã cố gắng định hình lại Cuba dưới chế độ cộng sản, thông qua các biện pháp trừng phạt, ngoại giao và áp lực chính trị. Giờ đây, Tổng thống Donald Trump đang theo đuổi một cách tiếp cận cứng rắn hơn, cho rằng việc gia tăng áp lực kinh tế có thể thành công, ở những nơi mà các nỗ lực trước đây đã thất bại. Nhưng khi Washington siết chặt các biện pháp trừng phạt và Havana đổ lỗi cho Hoa Kỳ về việc làm trầm trọng thêm khó khăn, người dân Cuba bình thường một lần nữa lại bị mắc kẹt ở giữa.
Confira os destaques do Jornal da Manhã desta sexta-feira (05): A Marcha para Jesus reuniu milhares de fiéis nesta quinta-feira (4), feriado de Corpus Christi, em São Paulo. Entre as autoridades presentes estavam o senador e pré-candidato à Presidência Flávio Bolsonaro, o governador paulista Tarcísio de Freitas, o prefeito da capital Ricardo Nunes, o ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal André Mendonça e o advogado-geral da União Jorge Messias, que representou o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. As autoridades acompanharam a caminhada em um trio elétrico que partiu da Estação da Luz em direção à Praça Heróis da FEB. O presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, criticou duramente os parlamentares republicanos que se uniram aos democratas para aprovar uma resolução na Câmara dos Representantes dos Estados Unidos que busca limitar seus poderes para conduzir ações militares contra o Irã sem autorização prévia do Congresso. Em publicação na rede social Truth Social, Trump classificou a votação como “sem sentido” e acusou os quatro membros de seu partido que apoiaram a medida de agir contra os interesses do país. Segundo o presidente, a iniciativa pode comprometer as negociações em andamento para encerrar o conflito com o governo iraniano. As facções criminosas Primeiro Comando da Capital e Comando Vermelho passam a ser oficialmente classificadas como organizações terroristas pelo governo dos Estados Unidos a partir desta sexta-feira (05). A medida foi anunciada pela administração de Donald Trump em 28 de maio e amplia os instrumentos legais disponíveis para autoridades americanas atuarem contra indivíduos, empresas e redes financeiras ligadas aos grupos. Desde o anúncio, o governo brasileiro tem mantido conversas diplomáticas com Washington em busca de esclarecimentos e para tentar reverter a decisão. Para falar sobre o assunto, a Jovem Pan entrevista Marcus Vinicius de Freitas, professor de relações internacionais. Os Estados Unidos anunciaram uma nova rodada de sanções contra integrantes da cúpula do governo de Cuba. Entre os alvos estão o presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel, sua esposa, membros da família Castro e instituições ligadas aos setores político, militar e de inteligência cubanos. A medida faz parte da estratégia da administração de Donald Trump para aumentar a pressão sobre Havana e responsabilizar autoridades que, segundo Washington, participam da repressão interna e de ações consideradas contrárias aos interesses de segurança nacional norte-americanos. Para analisar os impactos diplomáticos e geopolíticos da decisão, a Jovem Pan entrevista o especialista em relações internacionais Vitelio Brustolin. Pesquisa da Vox Brasil divulgada nesta sexta-feira (5) aponta o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva na liderança das intenções de voto para a eleição presidencial de 2026. No cenário de primeiro turno, Lula registra 42,1% das intenções de voto, enquanto o senador e pré-candidato à Presidência Flávio Bolsonaro aparece com 33,6%. O levantamento também simulou um eventual segundo turno entre os dois candidatos. Nesse cenário, o atual presidente teria 47,8% das intenções de voto, contra 41,3% atribuídos ao parlamentar do PL. Os senadores Zequinha Marinho e Cleitinho retiraram suas assinaturas da Proposta de Emenda à Constituição apresentada pela oposição como alternativa à PEC que prevê o fim da escala 6x1. A decisão ocorre poucos dias após o senador Romário também deixar de apoiar o texto. A proposta alternativa é articulada pelo líder da oposição no Senado, Rogério Marinho, e prevê mudanças na jornada de trabalho por meio de acordos individuais entre empregadores e trabalhadores, com remuneração proporcional às horas trabalhadas. O texto se contrapõe à PEC original, que propõe o fim da escala 6x1 sem redução salarial. Essas e outras notícias você acompanha no Jornal da Manhã. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What happened in Havana? what is Havana syndrome? and what caused it? Was it sound waves? were they cooking their brains or was it just some cicadas being too loud. Go down the rabbit hole with Brandon and lets see what we can figure out.
For more than six decades, the United States has tried to reshape communist-ruled Cuba through sanctions, diplomacy and political pressure. Now, President Donald Trump is pursuing a tougher approach, arguing increased economic pressure can succeed where previous efforts have failed. But as Washington tightens sanctions and Havana blames the United States for deepening hardship, ordinary Cubans are once again caught in the middle.
It's now five months since the United States removed the then Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from Caracas by force to face trial on drug charges. What has changed in the interim in Venezuela?Also in the programme: The leader of the Cuban Five - Gerardo Hernández - speaks to us about Raúl Castro's 95th birthday, and US pressure for change in Havana; and the German film director Wim Wenders says he's withdrawing his 1975 film Wrong Move because of complaints by the actress Nastassja Kinski who appeared topless in it when she was 13 years old.(Photo: Members of Venezuelan opposition political parties, public sector workers and students protest demanding higher wages, better working conditions, and an electoral calendar for the presidential election, in Caracas, Venezuela, 3 June 2026. Credit: Reuters/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)
They'll tell you Hearst was a newspaperman — a rich boy who sold headlines. That's the myth. And the myth is doing exactly what it was built to do, which is keep you from looking any closer.Because the truth is faster than that. And darker. And a lot more precise.In 1898, two men in New York — William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer — were fighting a circulation war that had crossed the line from exaggeration into fabrication. They invented atrocities. They bribed sources. They ran illustrations of events that never happened. They funded their own publicity stunts and then covered them as news. And when the USS Maine exploded in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, killing 266 American sailors, they had the story they had been waiting for. Within weeks, they had pushed a reluctant president and a divided Congress into a war that turned the United States into an imperial power for the first time in its history.This isn't conspiracy. It isn't ideology. It's architecture — and the architecture they built in 1898 is still operating right now.In this video:→ Joseph Pulitzer arrives in America at 17 with no money, no English, and no connections — and ends up owning the tallest building in New York→ William Randolph Hearst inherits his father's mining fortune and uses it to wage a circulation war Pulitzer couldn't possibly win→ The Yellow Kid: the cartoon strip whose name became the term for an entire era of American journalism→ The Olivette, the Cisneros rescue, and the USS Maine — three case studies in how to fabricate, escalate, and weaponize a story→ The newsboys strike of 1899: the only group of people who ever forced Hearst and Pulitzer to back down→ Why the playbook they invented in 1897 is now running through every social media algorithm in the worldSubscribe to Hidden Forces in History for civilizational autopsies of the empires, institutions, and patterns shaping the world we live in now.00:00 The Myth and What Actually Happened01:17 Two Men Built This Machine01:38 Joseph Pulitzer: The Immigrant Who Bought The World04:42 William Randolph Hearst: Unlimited Money, No Patience06:13 Park Row: The Circulation War Begins08:14 The Yellow Kid and the Birth of Yellow Journalism09:46 The Olivette: The Playbook Goes Live11:35 The Evangelina Cisneros Rescue13:09 The USS Maine14:20 "You Furnish the Pictures, I'll Furnish the War"15:27 1898: America Becomes an Empire17:35 The Newsboys Strike18:45 Same Playbook, Different Century
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Trong một chuyến thăm bất ngờ tới Havana vào giữa tháng 5, Giám đốc Cơ quan Tình báo Trung ương Mỹ John Ratcliffe đã đưa ra tối hậu thư cho ban lãnh đạo Cuba, yêu cầu họ cắt đứt các mối quan hệ an ninh với Trung Quốc và Nga. Mỹ cũng đang đặt nền móng cho một chiến dịch “thực thi pháp luật” tiềm tàng — một kịch bản có thể lặp lại vụ bắt giữ Maduro bằng cách truy tố ông Castro tại một tòa án Mỹ. Xem thêm.
It's been about four months since President Donald Trump threatened sanctions against countries supplying much-needed oil to Cuba. The country's economy is already struggling with shortages, inflation, rolling blackouts, and the longstanding U.S. embargo. This morning, we'll hear from a sociologist and retired professor at the University of Havana who's lived through nearly every major chapter of Cuba's modern economy — from the rise of Fidel Castro to the current economic crisis. But first, there's a modern gold rush (but this time for uranium).
It's been about four months since President Donald Trump threatened sanctions against countries supplying much-needed oil to Cuba. The country's economy is already struggling with shortages, inflation, rolling blackouts, and the longstanding U.S. embargo. This morning, we'll hear from a sociologist and retired professor at the University of Havana who's lived through nearly every major chapter of Cuba's modern economy — from the rise of Fidel Castro to the current economic crisis. But first, there's a modern gold rush (but this time for uranium).
Could Cuba be next as tensions rise across Latin America? Buck breaks down the latest developments involving Cuba, Venezuela, and the ongoing Iran negotiations. From renewed U.S. sanctions and pressure on Havana to major shifts in Venezuela’s oil industry after Maduro’s removal, the geopolitical landscape is changing fast. Never miss a moment from Buck by subscribing to the Buck Sexton Show Podcast on IHeart Radio, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts! Connect with Buck Sexton:Facebook – / bucksexton X – @bucksexton Instagram – @bucksexton TikTok - @BuckSexton YouTube - @BuckSexton Website – https://www.bucksexton.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: Despite Iran's threats, some commercial ships are quietly slipping through the Strait of Hormuz with U.S. assistance, raising new questions about whether Tehran's control over the strategic waterway is as absolute as the regime claims. President Trump is reportedly seeking tougher terms in a proposed agreement with Iran, sending a draft framework negotiated by his own envoys back for revisions as negotiations continue. British intelligence now estimates that nearly 500,000 Russian troops have been killed since the start of the war in Ukraine, offering a sobering assessment of the conflict's human cost to Moscow. In today's Back of the Brief, a rare meeting between senior U.S. and Cuban military officials at Guantanamo Bay is drawing attention as one of the few remaining channels of communication between Washington and Havana. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President's Daily Brief by visiting https://PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Tax Relief Advocates: End your tax nightmare today by visiting us online at https://TRA.comor call 800-583-6515 DeleteMe: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to https://joindeleteme.com/PDBand use promo code PDB at checkout. Chapter: Compare every medicare plan call 915-671-5252 today! Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan's contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don't directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact https://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of The PDB Situation Report: The United States and Iran have reportedly reached a draft agreement to extend their ceasefire for another 60 days, though the deal still requires President Trump's approval. Mike is joined by David Daoud of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies to discuss what the proposed agreement could mean for Iran's nuclear program and the broader security situation in the Middle East. Cuba's power grid is under growing strain as fuel shortages continue to fuel blackouts across the island, while the Trump administration opens a new front by bringing criminal charges against former Cuban leader Raúl Castro. Mike speaks with retired Marine Corps intelligence officer Hal Kempfer about the implications for the Cuban regime and U.S. policy toward Havana. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President's Daily Brief by visiting https://PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Blocktrust: Move your retirement into the next generation of assets, go to https://mikebakercrypto.com now to claim your $2,500 Bitcoin bonus. Fox One: Sign up at https://fox.com to watch The PDB show and more on-demand with FOX One. ZBiotics: Go to https://zbiotics.com/PDB and use PDB at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kate Adie introduces stories on Cuba's economic crisis as it feels the strain of the US fuel blockade, Lebanon's shattered ceasefire, the fevered debate over Australia's social media ban, plus dispatches from Greece and Iceland.Cuba is struggling to cope with the the US government's near-total fuel blockade and the Trump administration increased the pressure on the ruling Communist Party when it issued an indictment against Raul Castro this week. Will Grant has been gauging the mood in Havana.In southern Lebanon, Israel has stepped up its offensive on Hezbollah with daily strikes, which have killed dozens of civilians. This follows drone attacks launched by the Iran-backed group on communities in northern Israel. John Sudworth reports on the ongoing conflict.Six months on from Australia's introduction of a social media ban for under 16s, governments around the world are eagerly looking on as they consider rolling out similar policies… but is it working? Katy Watson has been following the debate in Sydney.In Greece, indignation over new labour laws introduced last October continue to simmer as the summer heat takes hold. The new law, which permits 13-hour working days was met with fierce opposition and nationwide strikes. Heidi Fuller Love heard some full-throated views on the subject in a local tavernaAnd finally, when a correspondent is on deployment, they often have to navigate sudden changes of plan. Sandra Kanthal found herself diverted by bad weather from an assignment reporting on Iceland's arctic defences… and founded herself in an unusual museum.Series Producer: Serena Tarling Production Coordinators: Sophie Hill & Katie Morrison Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
On May 20th, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a federal indictment charging former Cuban head of state Raul Castro with the murder of American civilians. That same day, the USS Nimitz carrier strike group entered the Caribbean. We break down the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown, the GAESA military conglomerate controlling Cuba's economy, and what the Venezuela playbook tells us about where this is headed. Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) Prep with AFOQT Wingman https://afoqtwingman.com/Code: AFTERBURN for 10% off
It's Friday, May 29th, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus and Jonathan Clark 180 Christian families denied communal water in India More than 180 Christian families in 32 villages across Chhattisgarh State in central India have reportedly been denied access to communal water sources and livelihood opportunities for the past three weeks as punishment for refusing to leave their Christian faith, reports International Christian Concern. Many Christian families in the Antagarh region of the district have been barred from using community rivers, ponds, taps, and hand pumps. At the same time, Christians have been denied work under a government employment scheme. 2 Timothy 3:12 says, "Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted." According to Open Doors, India is the 12th most oppressive country worldwide for Christians. Trump's accelerating squeeze on Cuba The Trump administration is bracing for the potential collapse of Cuba's totalitarian government as early as this summer, and has war-gamed new military response plans in case the island descends into chaos, reports Axios. President Trump will keep pushing economic sanctions to try to strangle the regime in Havana in a slow-motion constriction. This methodical squeezing of Cuba's communist regime is also designed to buy time for Trump — who's now engrossed in peace talks with Iran — to eventually focus on Cuba and decide how to bring about change there. The Cuba operation aims to eliminate Latin America's source of Marxist agitation and anti-U.S. activism ever since Fidel and Raul Castro led their successful revolution in 1959. To bring Cuba to its knees this year, the administration first focused on the island's lifeline: Venezuela, which is 1,200-miles south, and its socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro. Venezuela kept Cuba afloat with shipments of oil that helped power the country and gave it a source of export revenue. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi has thyroid cancer Former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after her departure from office earlier this year and is now receiving treatment, reports USA Today. Bondi, age 60, was fired by President Donald Trump in April but is set to return to the Trump administration to serve on an advisory committee on artificial intelligence policy as she battles cancer. Thyroid cancer results from malignant cells growing in a person's thyroid gland, the butterfly-shaped gland at the base of your neck that makes hormones, according to the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic. These hormones regulate how your body uses energy, including metabolism, heart rate and blood pressure. Jill Biden wondered whether Joe had a stroke mid debate Remember this pivotal moment in the 2024 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump? BIDEN: “Making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system. Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the uh, with the COVID, excuse me, with, um, with dealing with everything we have to do with. Look, if. We finally beat Medicare!” As First Lady Jill Biden watched her husband stumble through the most cringeworthy portion of his disastrous June 2024 debate, she wondered if he had unknowingly ingested drugs or was having a medical episode on live television. In an upcoming CBS News Sunday Morning interview she said this. JILL BIDEN: “As I watched it, I thought, ‘He's having a stroke!' And it scared me to death.” However, at the time, right after the debate two years ago, Jill Biden said this. JILL BIDEN: “Joe, you did such a great job! You answered every question. You knew all the facts.” In her new biography entitled, View From the East Wing, she was far more candid. She wondered, “Is he short-circuiting? Is this a stroke? I felt like we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching. Has he been drugged?” According to The Atlantic, which has seen a preview copy ahead of the June release, Jill Biden wondered, “Will people watching assume this is how he is all the time?” Bidens fighting to squelch embarrassing audio recordings Gary Bauer, founder of American Values and the co-host of Family Talk, wrote, “Right now, the Bidens are fighting to prevent closed-door audio recordings of interviews Joe Biden did from being released to the public. Why? Because in those interviews Biden couldn't remember basic events in his life. He couldn't remember when he was vice president. He couldn't remember when his son, Beau, died. He couldn't remember the advice his generals gave him.” Bauer concluded, “And we all remember what Special Counsel Robert Hur said. Hur did not charge Biden for keeping classified documents because no jury would convict an ‘elderly man with a poor memory.' In other words, Joe was not mentally competent to stand trial.” Teenage worker bees drops to lowest level since 1948 The number of teenagers working jobs this summer is expected to fall to the lowest level since 1948. The consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas predicts teens will gain 790,000 jobs in May, June, and July. That's down from 801,000 last summer. The firm noted, “Rising inflation, climbing oil prices, and a broadly cautious hiring environment are expected to keep the 2026 summer hiring total well below historical averages as employers and consumers rein in spending.” Welsh preacher John Penry pleaded for Welsh evangelism before execution And finally, on May 29,1593, 433 years ago today, Welsh Protestant preacher John Penry appealed for Christian pastors to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Wales shortly before his execution under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. John Penry wept for Wales. He noted that thousands of Welsh had never heard of Christ. He wrote, “O destitute and forlorn condition! Preaching itself in many parts is unknown. In some places, a sermon is read once in three months.” Penry proposed a system of lay pastors supported in part with voluntary gifts from the people. His attack on the neglectful behavior of the Church of England won Penry the undying hostility of John Whitgift, the Archbishop of Canterbury, reports the Christian History Institute. Having become a Puritan Separatist in his thinking, Penry could not accept a state-run system because, "The truth of Christ” could not be in bondage to an “anti-Christian power.” Because of such outspoken views, and his stern warnings to Queen Elizabeth I and her bishops, Penry had to flee. Because he dared to expose the Church of England for its neglect, John Penry was captured and treated to a travesty of justice. Some strong words of warning against the queen in his notebook were interpreted as treason. Archbishop Whitgift was the first to sign his death warrant. Penry was hauled off to be hanged on this day, May 29, 1593. A thin scattering of bystanders, none of them his friends, watched as the 34-year old departed this world at the end of a rope about four in the afternoon. He was not allowed to preach a final sermon. He had, however, written a lengthy letter to his four daughters named Deliverance, Comfort, Safety, and Sure Hope -- who ranged in age between 4 and four months. He implored them to follow the true faith. James 1:12 says, “Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love Him." Close And that's The Worldview on this Friday, May 29th, in the year of our Lord 2026. Subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Plus, you can get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.
Josh opens the show by taking apart the proposed Iran deal and explaining why he believes it is a deal America should reject outright. He breaks down what's actually in the agreement, exposes the glaring questions it leaves unanswered, and argues that a bad deal is far more dangerous than no deal at all. Josh explains why giving concessions to the Iranian regime without meaningful guarantees could have serious consequences for U.S. national security and stability in the Middle East. Next, Josh turns his attention to Cuba and the latest signals coming from the administration about the future of U.S.-Cuba relations. He examines what policy changes may be on the horizon, what they could mean for American interests, and why the communist regime in Havana remains a critical issue that Washington cannot afford to ignore. Finally, Josh dives into the results of this week's Texas primary elections and what they reveal about the political landscape in the Lone Star State. As Democrats continue to insist that Texas is on the verge of turning blue, Josh looks at the numbers, the trends, and whether that long-promised Democratic breakthrough is reality—or just another political fantasy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, a former newspaper reporter and bestselling novelist who has spent recent years investigating Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, says she has left her home and is preparing to leave the United States after what she claims were “directed energy weapon” attacks connected to her Epstein reporting. She has alleged that her work on Zorro Ranch, local cover-up claims, and possible intelligence-linked trafficking networks made her a target, and she described suffering symptoms she compared to “Havana syndrome,” including neurological pressure-type effects. She claimed the attacks came in multiple episodes, possibly from equipment on or near her roof or from a semi-truck parked near her home. There is no public evidence confirming that she was attacked with directed energy weapons or that her claims about buried victims, military contractors, or intelligence-linked retaliation have been substantiated.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Reporter who investigated Jeffrey Epstein is 'fleeing' the US after alleged attack
Robbie the Fire is joined by Kyle Anzalone of the Kyle Anzalone Show and Antiwar.com for a wide-ranging conversation on conspiracies, war reporting, and the state of the Iran conflict.We open with recent fringe stories — a journalist claiming to be targeted by directed energy weapons after reporting on Epstein's Zorro Ranch, the reality behind Havana syndrome and sonic weapons, the cluster of "missing scientists," and why the government keeps quietly feeding the alien/UAP disclosure narrative. Robbie lays out his FBI entrapment theory ahead of his live show, and we dig into the recent Iran-linked assassination plot cases (Asif Merchant, Farhad Shakeri, Saad Dawood Al-Saedi).From there it's a full war briefing: where Russia-Ukraine actually stands, Biden's NATO weapons-transfer scheme, Russia's shift toward hitting decision-making centers in Kiev, depleted Western interceptor stocks, and how the Iran war is draining US munitions. Plus the real sticking points in the Iran negotiations — the Strait of Hormuz "maintenance fee," Lebanon and Hezbollah, the nuclear enrichment fight — and a frank conversation about Trump's cognitive decline and what comes next.Catch Kyle on the Kyle Anzalone Show. Come see Robbie on the road — jokes and the full FBI entrapment documentation in the live show.
Jeffrey Epstein's reach extended far beyond New York, Palm Beach, and the familiar circles of American finance and politics. Newly surfaced records show him probing for influence and opportunity across Latin America and the Caribbean, including Venezuela and Cuba, where he appeared to position himself as a connector for businessmen, political insiders, and power brokers operating in difficult, sensitive, or sanctions-adjacent environments. One major thread involves Epstein advising DP World's Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem after Hugo Chávez nationalized Venezuelan ports, with Epstein suggesting Cuba as a possible backchannel route into Caracas. Another involves Venezuelan businessman Francisco D'Agostino and discussions about potential oil opportunities connected to PDVSA and the Orinoco River oil fields. D'Agostino says the proposed Venezuela trip never happened and no deal came together, but the records still show Epstein attempting to place himself near the intersection of energy, politics, and elite access.The Cuba material follows the same pattern. Epstein traveled there in 2003 with Ghislaine Maxwell and former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana, and Maxwell later claimed they met Fidel Castro, though there is no clear evidence that Epstein conducted business or political negotiations with Castro. Years later, Epstein funded a Cuban state-backed neuroscience conference in Havana through his connection to researcher Gino Yu, fitting his larger pattern of using science, academia, and intellectual circles as a legitimacy machine. The larger takeaway is not that every one of Epstein's approaches produced a successful deal; many appear to have stalled or gone nowhere. The real significance is that a convicted sex offender with a history of elite protection was still moving through circles connected to foreign governments, oil wealth, port infrastructure, sanctioned economies, and high-level intermediaries, raising the same old question: who kept allowing this man access to rooms where he clearly did not belong?to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:How Epstein explored Venezuelan deals, funded Cuban research | Miami Herald
Jeffrey Epstein's reach extended far beyond New York, Palm Beach, and the familiar circles of American finance and politics. Newly surfaced records show him probing for influence and opportunity across Latin America and the Caribbean, including Venezuela and Cuba, where he appeared to position himself as a connector for businessmen, political insiders, and power brokers operating in difficult, sensitive, or sanctions-adjacent environments. One major thread involves Epstein advising DP World's Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem after Hugo Chávez nationalized Venezuelan ports, with Epstein suggesting Cuba as a possible backchannel route into Caracas. Another involves Venezuelan businessman Francisco D'Agostino and discussions about potential oil opportunities connected to PDVSA and the Orinoco River oil fields. D'Agostino says the proposed Venezuela trip never happened and no deal came together, but the records still show Epstein attempting to place himself near the intersection of energy, politics, and elite access.The Cuba material follows the same pattern. Epstein traveled there in 2003 with Ghislaine Maxwell and former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana, and Maxwell later claimed they met Fidel Castro, though there is no clear evidence that Epstein conducted business or political negotiations with Castro. Years later, Epstein funded a Cuban state-backed neuroscience conference in Havana through his connection to researcher Gino Yu, fitting his larger pattern of using science, academia, and intellectual circles as a legitimacy machine. The larger takeaway is not that every one of Epstein's approaches produced a successful deal; many appear to have stalled or gone nowhere. The real significance is that a convicted sex offender with a history of elite protection was still moving through circles connected to foreign governments, oil wealth, port infrastructure, sanctioned economies, and high-level intermediaries, raising the same old question: who kept allowing this man access to rooms where he clearly did not belong?to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:How Epstein explored Venezuelan deals, funded Cuban research | Miami Herald
Donate (no account necessary) | Subscribe (account required) Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he dives into today's top stories shaping America and the world. In this Wednesday Listener Q&A episode of The Wright Report, Bryan answers listener questions on Cuba, Iran, Gaza, China, artificial intelligence, and the increasingly dangerous rhetoric coming from the American Left. He begins with Cuba, explaining why CIA Director John Ratcliffe's recent visit to Havana may have been designed to pressure younger Castro-linked leaders into stepping aside or turning on hardliners before President Trump considers military action. Bryan then turns to Iran, breaking down how long the U.S. naval blockade may need to continue before the IRGC feels serious financial pressure, and why Arab governments may have missed their best chance to join the U.S. and Israel in crushing Tehran's radicals. Plus, Bryan gives updates on Gaza, where Israel now controls roughly 60% of the territory, and responds to listener questions about whether China is truly as dangerous as he says. He also warns about AI "truth machines" that may be shaped by ideological bias, before closing with a sobering look at comments from Hakeem Jeffries' brother invoking John Brown and the use of violence against Trump supporters, arguing that Democrats' "break their spirits" rhetoric should be taken seriously. "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32 Keywords: Cuba regime change CIA Director John Ratcliffe Havana Raulito Castro, Trump Cuba military option 2026 USS Nimitz Caribbean, Iran naval blockade IRGC oil revenue timeline, Strait of Hormuz blockade oil storage Iran economy, Arab governments Iran war Abraham Accords Trump, Gaza update Israel controls 60 percent Hamas disarmament, China threat GDP demographics military AI bio warfare, AI truth machine ChatGPT Claude bias conspiracy debunking, Hakeem Jeffries break MAGA spirits Hasan Kwame Jeffries John Brown, political violence Democrats Trump supporters, Bryan Dean Wright podcast, The Wright Report
Cuba received a tranche of humanitarian aid from China this week as people there experience severe hunger due to food shortages and economic crisis. It comes as the Trump administration maintains that the island poses a threat to the U.S. Amna Nawaz spoke with Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, Cuba's deputy foreign minister, to discuss what she says is Cuba's right to defend itself. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy
Cuba seems willing to concede more than ever if the Trump administration is willing to take the win. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen and Danielle Hewitt, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. A rally in support of former Cuban president Raul Castro outside the US Embassy in Havana. Photo by ADALBERTO ROQUE / AFP via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Everybody is talking Battlehawks playoffs, Doggies on a heater, and Knicks turning back the clock. Party in the Get Up studios. Misiorowski throwing heat yesterday. 57 pitchers over 100 MPH. Foot Fetish Friday on the weekend best ofs? We need a lake recap from thick neck Matt. Trash Day. Blues and Doggies executives took some money off of Tim on the golf course. Polos Plus and new TMA merch.Would have liked to have that one Saturday night. What's it like to catch 103 MPH? Will guys throw 110 soon? Still trying to get a LOTO report from Thick Neck Matt. Torres with a fun debut. Cardinal lineup talk. Need more out of Gorman. Oli Marmol talking about LIberatore's 10 strikeout performance in the loss. Papers is heating up. We still haven't gotten to "News From The South" yet on the dossier. Doug's Favorite Quarter Zip is on the phone lines and wants to talk the Tarps Off section and getting a comparable ticket because of it. He's got a chant he wants to share. Jackson has an aura around him. It's just trouble you don't want. Whatever works, man.Some songs are timeless. Will people make the trip down from Chicago for the Cards/Cubs series? Hello, Bitch. Navy cappin' on the beach. Hoosier Yada Yada. Lots of thong bikinis down in 30A. BBB got banned from commenting on Reddit. Why isn't Doug talking about Joey Chestnut? A new set of Rodericks. Why is Destin such a lightning rod? Unlikable Shrew.Happy Birthday, Stevie Nicks. Holes in the septum. Tottenham Hotspur, un-be-liev-able. Audio of an emotional West Ham fan after the club's relegation. Doug doesn't like the emotion in his voice. Justin Safford and Jackson at Tonic. Thick Neck Matt is on the lines with a lake report. Lower JeffCo. Matt's report was kinda quick. How was Steve Aoki? Not only is Glory Hole acceptable, it's encouraged. Larry Nickel's not happy. What are you up to, Larry? Raw recap and Top 5 countries with honorable mentions. Can't believe you guys get paid for this.Is it Lauryn Hill's birthday today? Martin's on fire today. The Bonet/Kravitz family tree. Helping people move. College lacrosse talk. Cubs have dropped 9 straight. No weekend day games for Cards/Cubs. Pujols in the booth on Sunday night. Walking thru the bowels of the Dome again.People are texting in telling us about their golf game. Audio of Michael McGreevy's chat with Frank. Sounds like we're friends with him. Doug vs. Gimmes and the rules of golf.The Jawline King out there celebrating in Cleveland. People are sending in pictures of the halibut they caught for Doug to see. Best childhood acting performances. What kind of feedback has the two-part Movie Boi gotten? Don't say stylings. Chairman wants the women's cardigan from the new TMA Merch. Crappie. Let us know your fish of choice.Look, Doug, it's Brody. Brody is giddy about the Knicks. Hockey talk. And we're back on the Knicks. Orange and blue skies.Cheapest ticket for the NBA Finals in NYC. The Design Aire Heating & Cooling EMOTDMuted trumpets just make everything better. Redbirds shut down by The MIz yesterday. The Athletic's Power Rankings are out. Sounds like they think the Cardinals are going to stumble. Ralph Garr. Teri Garr. Favorite Looney Tunes character. Porky Pig was not in Deliverance. Mr. Mom.Jackson's not in a place to be playing for money right now. You don't bring the family into it. It's on Tubi, hell yeah. Shirtless in Havana. Lee Strasberg. Why would you cover your nipples while you fish?ESPN's MLB award projections from our pal Bradford Doolittle. Lots of Cardinals on the lists. And the winner of the Design Aire Heating & Cooling EMOTD is...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
(00:00-8:01). Muted trumpets just make everything better. Redbirds shut down by The MIz yesterday. The Athletic's Power Rankings are out. Sounds like they think the Cardinals are going to stumble. Ralph Garr. Teri Garr. Favorite Looney Tunes character. Porky Pig was not in Deliverance. Mr. Mom.(8:09-21:49) Jackson's not in a place to be playing for money right now. You don't bring the family into it. It's on Tubi, hell yeah. Shirtless in Havana. Lee Strasberg. Why would you cover your nipples while you fish?(22:00-32:33) ESPN's MLB award projections from our pal Bradford Doolittle. Lots of Cardinals on the lists. And the winner of the Design Aire Heating & Cooling EMOTD is...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: The United States and Iran reportedly agree in principle to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, potentially easing pressure on global oil markets and reducing fears of a wider Middle East war. But while the White House is signaling progress, many of the toughest questions surrounding Iran's nuclear program remain unresolved. New details emerge from CIA Director John Ratcliffe's trip to Havana, including reports he brought along a paramilitary operator involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro as the administration ramps up pressure on Cuba and warns about growing Russian and Chinese intelligence activity on the island. Russia launches one of its largest aerial assaults on Kyiv since the start of the war, reportedly deploying its nuclear-capable Oreshnik hypersonic missile during the massive overnight barrage against the Ukrainian capital. And in today's Back of the Brief—a tense maritime standoff erupts between Chinese and Taiwanese coast guard ships near the strategically sensitive Pratas Islands in the South China Sea. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President's Daily Brief by visiting https://PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Chapter: Compare every medicare plan call 915-671-5252 today! Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan's contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don't directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact https://Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. ZBiotics: Go to https://zbiotics.com/PDB and use PDB at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. AmmoSquared: Secure your supply and take control of your preparedness at https://AmmoSquared.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Washington ratcheted up the pressure on Havana this week. A federal judge in Tennessee dismissed criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Electricity costs are rising as the U.S. enters warmer weather, likely meaning higher utility bills for consumers.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy
P.M. Edition for May 22. The Journal is exclusively reporting that Russia and China have been building out their operations to spy on the U.S. from Cuba. National security reporter Alex Ward discusses what this means for the U.S. as it escalates its pressure campaign on Havana. Plus, Kevin Warsh was sworn in as Federal Reserve chair at the White House today. We tell you what President Trump had to say about the central bank's independence, and what the Fed should prioritize under Warsh's leadership. And Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard becomes the latest Trump administration official to leave her post. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cuba experienced blackouts and protests this week, and the CIA director made a visit to Havana. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., faces primary voters today. Trump administration travel restrictions are complicating travel plans for World Cup soccer fans.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy
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