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Associated Press President Donald Trump has grown “increasingly frustrated” that the Cuban government hasn’t crumbled under U.S. pressure, and is considering taking military action to topple the communist regime, NBC News reported Monday. U.S. officials have told Trump that the regime, led by Miguel Díaz-Canel, “could still fall by the end of the year” without military intervention, but the president isn’t willing to wait that long, according to NBC News White House reporter Katherine Doyle. Trump’s hurried timeline has prompted the Pentagon to ramp up planning for possible military action against the island nation, Doyle reported. Doyle wrote that when asked for comment, “the White House pointed to Secretary [Marco] Rubio’s remarks that the Cuban regime had rejected $100 million in humanitarian aid offered by the U.S.” She added that “In separate comments last week, Rubio called it ‘an unacceptable status quo’ that the U.S. has, ’90 miles from our shores, a failed state that also happens to be friendly territory for some of our adversaries.’” EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with the Cuban government’s ability to maintain power despite months of sustained U.S. pressure and has been pressing his advisers about why his administration’s efforts to tip the regime into collapse have not… — Katherine Doyle (@katiadoyl) May 11, 2026 The Trump administration has tried to force regime change through a “maximum pressure” campaign that included restricted oil shipments and increased sanctions, but Díaz-Canel has held fast despite the resulting fuel shortages and power blackouts. “Cuba has an economy that doesn’t work and a political and governmental system that can’t fix it. So they have to change dramatically,” Rubio said in March. “They’ve got some big decisions to make over there.” In April, Díaz-Canel told NBC News’ Kristen Welker that he’s willing to give his life “for the revolution” if it comes to that. “If the time comes, I don’t think there would be any justification for the United States to launch a military aggression against Cuba, or for the U.S. to undertake a surgical operation, like the kidnapping of a president,” Díaz-Canel said, referring to the U.S. ouster of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro four months ago. “If that happens, there will be fighting and there will be a struggle. And we’ll defend ourselves. And if we need to die, we’ll die, because as our national anthem says, ‘Dying for the homeland is to live,’” Díaz-Canel said.The post… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Brownsville Mourns Teen Student Lost to Gun Violence
A Haywood High School student’s life was cut short by gun violence, prompting the Brownsville community to come together in grief on Mother’s Day weekend. According to Action News 5 reporting from Memphis, residents gathered to honor the young victim whose death has shaken the close-knit Tennessee community. The tragedy [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Couch Money’: Bill Maher and John Fetterman Defend the Cost of Trump’s Ba...
Bill Maher and Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) took turns defending the White House ballroom that President Donald Trump is building, with Maher saying it doesn’t make sense to get angry about it when the project will cost the equivalent of “couch money” to taxpayers. The comic and senator talked about the ballroom at the start of Monday’s latest episode of Club Random. “This thing won’t even be finished by the time he’s done!” Fetterman said. He then quipped Trump wasn’t building a “Dave and Buster[s],” which Maher got a kick out of. “Meanwhile the money is like one angstrom unit of a percentage point of what our budget is. So it doesn’t matter anyway,” Maher said. “It’s couch money.” He added the price tag for the ballroom doesn’t sound outlandish to him. “$330 million is about what a ballroom costs,” Maher said. That was right after Fetterman said he spent $330 million on his campaign in 2022 — and that campaigns have only gotten more expensive. “The ballroom has a purpose, a lot of senators you work with do not,” Maher said. The senator said the pushback against the ballroom ultimately boiled down to “TDS” — or Trump Derangement Syndrome — infecting the Democratic Party. “If he came out [in favor] for ice cream and lazy Sundays, we would f*ckin’ hate it,” Fetterman said. Trump last week said the ballroom would cost less than $400 million, and he has touted in the past it will be funded by donations from companies like Meta and Apple. Some Republicans proposed last week adding $1 billion for security enhancements to the budget, but that dough hasn’t been approved yet. Trump has pushed for the ballroom to get finished, saying it is necessary following the third assassination attempt against him last month at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Watch above via YouTube.The post ‘Couch Money’: Bill Maher and John Fetterman Defend the Cost of Trump’s Ballroom first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Kevin Hassett Accuses Jerome Powell of ‘Creating Political Conflicts’ at the...President Donald Trump’s Director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, accused Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome “Jay” Powell of “creating political conflicts” during an appearance on CNBC, Monday. “I’m really thrilled that my friend Kevin Warsh is about to be confirmed,” said Hassett during an appearance on Squawk Box. “I think there’s an underappreciated reason why markets are doing so well – that there’s going to be a change of leadership at the Fed, that leadership is going to be more level-headed, less prone to creating political conflicts that are, you know, different from the charge of the fed.” He continued, “So I think in the end, Kevin will talk to Jay and see what it takes, but again, where we are is that the inspector general of the fed is investigating the building situation, and so it’s not like the White House is disrespecting the independence of the fed, it’s the fed itself that’s looking into it, and I would guess that the off-ramp for Jay would be if the inspector general’s report comes out soon and he’s happy with the results, then I would expect that he would leave.” President Trump nominated Warsh to replace Powell, who was recently the subject of a federal investigation over the renovation of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters and his statements to Congress. The Department of Justice dropped its investigation into Powell last month, with U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro warning that she would “not hesitate to restart a criminal investigation should the facts warrant doing so.” Watch above via CNBC.The post Kevin Hassett Accuses Jerome Powell of ‘Creating Political Conflicts’ at the Federal Reserve first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Mark Halperin Floats Wild 2028 Election Scenario: There’s a ‘Possibility’ ...Mark Halperin has suggested that Vice President JD Vance may not run for president in 2028 amid widespread speculation that he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are headed for a bruising primary race against one another. “We get to what I think is driving a lot of this, besides people loving Marco Rubio — and a lot people in my sources do — is Vance. Concerns that Vance is not handling himself well, not just shackled to the administration, their gas prices, and potential bloodbath in the midterms, and the Iran war, but a belief that the downside image of Vance is true. That he’s a phony, that he’s not good with people, that that he comes off as aloof or odd to some,” began Halperin on Friday’s edition of his show. “I will say that in the next two years, as people in the party and the media are comparing Rubio and Vance side by side, I don’t think Vance can win’em, win the performance competition. I don’t think the-, I, don’t, and the likability. I may be wrong, but I just think Rubio has improved enough and the perceptions are such that Vance is going to have a hard time of people looking at him in a press conference, in an interview on the stump, whether he drops his nasty tweet persona or not, I think he’s going to a hard time winning that. And that’s a big part of how people think about presidential candidates and presidents — likeability, performance, et cetera.” Then he floated a scenario most pundits haven’t even considered: Here’s the bottom line for me. These two guys are genuine friends, and even though people tell me I’m naive, you cannot beat an incumbent vice president running for president unless you rip their face off. That’s just the way our politics work. So I do not think they’ll run against each other. I also am not sure that one or both of them will run because they’re young dads — the Vances are about to have a baby, Rubio’s kids are still relatively young — and they both know what scrutiny is like, and they both know, they’re both smart enough to know, that if they run, the level of scrutiny they get will be unlike anything they’ve ever gotten before. So if Vance chooses not to run, and I think that’s… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Sustainable Investing Opens New Wealth Building PathsFinancial advisors are increasingly promoting sustainable investing as a viable wealth-building strategy that aligns personal values with portfolio growth, according to ABC 7 Chicago. This investment approach allows individuals to support companies with strong environmental, social, and governance practices while potentially earning competitive returns. The strategy has gained momentum as [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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