Cuba boat shooting; Candace Owens and Erika Kirk; plane seating stress; and more
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Cuban forces shot four people dead on a U.S. registered speedboat. |
| 0:08.5 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Thursday, February 26th. |
| 0:15.9 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:21.0 | Tensions between the U.S. and Cuba have escalated in recent weeks. |
| 0:26.7 | President Donald Trump ordered an effective oil embargo last month on the Caribbean nation, |
| 0:32.5 | threatening sanctions on any country that delivered oil to it. |
| 0:36.8 | That has worsened a humanitarian crisis there. |
| 0:40.3 | Yesterday, an incident off Cuba's coast heightened tensions even further. |
| 0:45.2 | According to Cuba's interior ministry, an American speedboat opened fire on border agents |
| 0:51.3 | less than a mile off Cuba's northern coast. |
| 0:56.1 | It said the boat was carrying 10 armed Cubans who were attempting to infiltrate the country for, quote, terrorist purposes. |
| 1:03.4 | The ministry said Cuban forces returned fire, killing four men and wounding six. Secretary of State |
| 1:10.2 | Marco Rubio spoke about the incident in a news |
| 1:12.8 | conference yesterday and said that the U.S. would conduct its own investigation. |
| 1:18.1 | Suffice it to say, it is highly unusual to see shootouts in open sea like that. It's not something |
| 1:24.2 | that happens every day. It's something, frankly, that hasn't happened with Cuba in a very long time. |
| 1:30.1 | But we're going to find out. |
| 1:32.1 | We're not going to base our conclusions on what they've told us. |
| 1:34.9 | The Washington Post could not independently confirm Cuba's version of events. |
| 1:43.6 | Republicans heavily shared one moment from Trump's State of the Union address. |
| 1:48.7 | That's our second story. |
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