What Are Trump’s Plans for Cuba?
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What does leadership really look like? On The Power of Advice, a new podcast series from Capital Group, |
| 0:08.5 | you'll hear from athletes, entrepreneurs and executives who've led on the field in the boardroom and in their communities. |
| 0:16.2 | It's not about titles. It's about impact. Discover what drives them and the advice they carry forward. |
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| 0:32.6 | A rocket explosion deals a setback to Jeff Bezos's blue origin. |
| 0:38.2 | Plus, the Iran War energy shock sends drivers flocking to Costco gas stations |
| 0:43.5 | and will survey Washington's options if its Cuba diplomatic pressure campaign |
| 0:48.8 | fails to dislodge the island's regime. |
| 0:51.2 | The template here is in Venezuela and Iran already. |
| 0:55.1 | The U.S. mounted operations to target leaders in those countries, military assets, airbases. |
| 1:01.2 | And so a similar operation, potentially in Cuba, would probably target the leadership. |
| 1:06.6 | It's Friday, May 29th. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:10.6 | And here is the AM edition |
| 1:12.0 | of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today. |
| 1:18.6 | We begin in Florida, where a rocket being tested by Jeff Bezos's blue origin exploded on a launch |
| 1:24.9 | pad overnight, sending an enormous ball of fire into the sky. |
| 1:28.3 | A spokesman for the Space Force, which oversees the site of the explosion near Cape Canaveral, |
| 1:35.3 | said there were no injuries or fatalities. The incident involved one of Blue Origins' powerful |
| 1:40.3 | New Glen Rockets, which was being prepared for an upcoming mission after a |
| 1:45.1 | previous launch earlier this year deployed a satellite into the wrong orbit. The explosion |
| 1:49.8 | is certain to delay upcoming satellite launches for Amazon and potentially push back other flights, |
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