{"id":73813,"date":"2026-05-20T21:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/trump-news-at-a-glance-us-indicts-raul-castro-ratcheting-up-cuba-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:55:25","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-us-indicts-raul-castro-ratcheting-up-cuba-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/trump-news-at-a-glance-us-indicts-raul-castro-ratcheting-up-cuba-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: US indicts Ra\u00fal Castro, ratcheting up Cuba tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president, 94, faces multiple US felony charges, including four counts of murder \u2013 key US politics stories from Wednesday 20 May<\/p>\n<p>The United States issued a federal criminal indictment against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/raul-castro\">Ra\u00fal Castro<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/cuba\">Cuba<\/a>\u2019s former president, and five others on Wednesday in a significant escalation of the Trump administration\u2019s campaign to oust the country\u2019s six-decades-old communist regime.<\/p>\n<p>The 94-year-old political figurehead was charged in Miami, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a>, with conspiracy to kill US nationals, four counts of murder and two counts of destruction of aircraft.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/20\/trump-news-at-a-glance-latest-updates-today\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president, 94, faces multiple US felony charges, including four counts of murder \u2013 key US politics stories from Wednesday 20 May The United States issued a federal criminal indictment against Ra\u00fal Castro, Cuba\u2019s former president, and five others on Wednesday in a significant escalation of the Trump administration\u2019s campaign to oust the country\u2019s six-decades-old &#8230; <a title=\"Trump news at a glance: US indicts Ra\u00fal Castro, ratcheting up Cuba tensions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/trump-news-at-a-glance-us-indicts-raul-castro-ratcheting-up-cuba-tensions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump news at a glance: US indicts Ra\u00fal Castro, ratcheting up Cuba tensions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}