Cuba's Hospitals Near Collapse as New U.S. Sanctions Choke Food and Medicine Imports
Doctors tell 60 Minutes they perform surgery by cellphone light and hand-pump oxygen for patients as only one oil tanker has reached the island since January.
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Doctors tell 60 Minutes they perform surgery by cellphone light and hand-pump oxygen for patients as only one oil tanker has reached the island since January.
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton says Tehran has 'substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel' as the White House weighs resuming strikes after the midterms.
'I am here. With you,' the opposition leader wrote on X as her team called the return a step toward free elections. No vote has been scheduled under acting President Delcy Rodríguez.
The secretary of state posted 'now is the time,' and the CIA reposted it with a video on how to make contact. Cuba's foreign minister rejected 'any threats stemming from U.S. ambitions.'
Doctors say they cannot source lifesaving pediatric drugs, bread prices have risen tenfold this year, and Washington sanctioned Cuba's state bank on Thursday.

The Wall Street Journal reported allegations including an alleged threat to a host-country official and improper gifts; Guilfoyle denies wrongdoing and says she will 'vigorously defend' herself.
In a sunset speech at the Pnyx, the secretary of state tied ancient Greece to Trump's agenda while the war with Iran enters its eighth month without a deal.

The judge accepted a Secretary of State memo that his actions undermine U.S. foreign policy. His lawyer says that standard makes the case "game over," and an appeal is coming.

Tehran says Foreign Minister Araghchi's departure was planned weeks ago. Washington and Tehran remain split on the order of concessions on Hormuz, nuclear steps and sanctions relief.

The State Department has already admitted more than 7,700 white Afrikaners as refugees while shutting the program to almost everyone else. South Africa's foreign minister blamed 'fringe groups' for misrepresenting the country's laws to Washington.
The State Department raised the bounty on Juan Carlos Valencia González fivefold and announced $102 million in total rewards for leaders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, six months after Mexican troops killed his stepfather.
The State Department pulled Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti's credentials after Brazil declined to approve Daniel Perez, the speaker of Florida's House and a Rubio ally, as the next U.S. ambassador — two months before a presidential election.

Grenada, Japan, Indonesia, Cameroon and Winnipeg are all losing U.S. missions in a downsizing that is not tied to any war, coup or rupture in relations.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House adviser Stephen Miller urged diplomats to help build a global counterterrorism push against the left, and Rubio announced new visa restrictions — as some allies quietly recoiled.
The duties, taking effect July 22 under Section 301, follow a yearlong probe into Brazil's digital-trade, ethanol and deforestation policies, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio blaming President Lula for refusing to 'negotiate in good faith.'

Months after U.S. forces seized Nicolás Maduro, the secretary of state is said to control Venezuela's finances, oil and cabinet appointments — directing its acting president by text message.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the agreement after four days of talks in Washington, though Hezbollah was not a party and the truce hinges on the group laying down its arms.
WatchIn back-to-back hearings, the secretary of state told lawmakers Iran has agreed to discuss aspects of its nuclear work it long refused to address, even as Democrats pressed him over strikes launched without congressional approval.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to New Delhi to explain President Trump's aggressive trade and immigration policies affecting Indians in the United States.

Iran's foreign minister accused Washington of undermining diplomacy while Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. expected to hear from Tehran on Friday.

DOJ moves the same day to drop the 2022 charges against Trump's longtime adviser, in an unprecedented executive-branch reversal of a completed conviction.
Vice President J.D. Vance topped the Conservative Political Action Conference poll, while Senator Marco Rubio gained momentum among MAGA faithful as organizers dismissed narratives of Republican division.