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Trump Admin Expected To Bring Criminal Charges Against Raul Castro Via American Greatness, The Trump administration is preparing to escalate pressure on Cuba’s communist regime by pursuing criminal charges against former Cuban leader Raúl Castro over the 1996 shootdown of civilian aircraft operated by a Miami-based exile group. According to reports, the charges are expected to be announced Wednesday and would center on the incident in which Cuban fighter jets destroyed two planes flown by Brothers to the Rescue, killing all four men aboard. The US Department of Justice is expected to make the announcement...

Judge Who Oversaw Utah Gerrymander Resigns For Affair With Plaintiff's Attorney Authored by Ben Sellers via HeadlineUSA, With partisan battle lines being drawn nationwide in a legal showdown over redistricting, Utah may be next in line after the judge who forcibly gerrymandered a congressional seat for Democrats stepped down in disgrace. Diana Hagen, a justice on the Utah Supreme Court resigned Friday in a letter to Gov. Spencer Cox. Utah News Dispatch: Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen announces her resignation from the court. Hagen faced allegations she had a relationship with an attorney...

US Futures, Treasuries Flat Ahead Of Core PCE, Micron Earnings Futures are higher with S&P leading both tech and small caps ahead of today's core PCE data and Micron earnings after the close, as yields remain sticky, unchanged from yesterday's multi-decade highs, and the USD fractionally lower. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are flat, with Nasdaq futures down fractionally as semis dip -20bp lagging the broader Tech tape but leading Software (-54bp) and Memory (-80bp) after Korea's Kospi closed lower erasing an early bounce. In premarket trading, Mag7s are...