Former Cuban leader Raúl Castro made his first public appearance Friday since the Trump administration charged him with murder over the 1996 shoot-down of planes operated by a Cuban exile group.

Castro appeared on state television during an Interior Ministry celebration in Havana, according to Reuters.

The appearance came weeks after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing Castro of playing a role in the downing of two aircraft operated by the Miami-based exile organization Brothers to the Rescue nearly 30 years ago.

Castro was charged with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, destruction of aircraft and four counts of murder.

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Castro, who turned 95 on Wednesday, was last seen publicly during May Day celebrations in Havana, days before the indictment was unsealed.

Prior to his May Day appearance, Castro had remained out of public view for months, appearing only at a public ceremony in Cuba's capital in January honoring 32 Cuban soldiers killed during the U.S. military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The indictment centers on a February 1996 incident in which Cuban military aircraft allegedly shot down two unarmed civilian planes operated by Brothers to the Rescue, killing four men: Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre Jr., Mario de la Peña and Pablo Morales.

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Prosecutors allege the aircraft were flying outside Cuban territory when they were destroyed.

The indictment came amid rising tensions in the Caribbean and a series of comments from Trump and his surrogates hinting at possible regime change in the island nation.

President Donald Trump previously praised the indictment, saying Cuban Americans whose families suffered under the communist regime had waited decades for accountability.

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"We have big news on Cuba, as you know, with the indictment of Castro," Trump said. "A lot of people have suffered very big, very, very, at levels that few people would understand."

Trump also suggested tensions with Cuba would not escalate following the indictment.

"There won’t be escalation," he said. "We won’t have to."

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Still, the decision to indict Castro fueled comparisons to the pressure campaign Trump previously used against Maduro.

"At the very least, it means symbolically that he is now set up just as Nicolás Maduro was," Christine Balling, a Cuba expert at the Institute of World Politics and former advisor to U.S. Special Operations Command South, previously told Fox News Digital.

The U.S. indicted Maduro on narco-terrorism charges while tightening sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector, backing opposition efforts to remove him from power and increasing military operations in the Caribbean.

"I don't think that we are necessarily going to conduct the same operation," Balling said. "Raúl Castro is 94 years old. It might not be worth the trouble."

Still, Balling argued that the indictment sent "a very straightforward message that we are 100% behind the fall of the Castro regime."

Fox News Digital's Robert McGreevy, Greg Wehner and Morgan Phillips, along with Fox News' David Spunt, Bill Mears and Jake Gibson contributed to this report. Reuters also contributed to this report.

An eyewitness to the fatal stabbing that left 17-year-old Austin Metchalf dead, claims that his alleged killer, fellow teenager Karmelo Anthony, was asked to leave his team's tent "15 times" before the fateful altercation that led to Metcalf's death.

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China announced on Friday that dictator Xi Jinping will make his first trip to North Korea since 2019 next week, in a bid to shore up China’s ties with its erratic neighbor after North Korea grew closer to Russia.

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Thursday on FNC's "Hannity," Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, discussed the Department of Justice's investigation of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the allegation that it was bankrolling so-called extremists it was supposedly opposed to.

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Thursday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said California Democrats are going to make up votes to win the elections.

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Thursday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow said the Democrats are attempting to steal the California elections.

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Thursday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) should go back to Brooklyn.

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The United States, along with the other countries that make up the Shield of the Americas, condemned the "ongoing efforts" in Bolivia to "overthrow the legitimately and overwhelmingly elected" government of President Rodrigo Paz on Friday.

"The member countries of Shield of the Americas denounce ongoing efforts to overthrow the legitimately and overwhelmingly elected government of President Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia," the statement read. "We stand with Paz’s democratic government as it fights back against attempts to drag Bolivia backwards through cynical efforts to prevent the delivery of food, medicine and other vital supplies to the Bolivian people through fake road blockades."

The statement added that "Mob rule cannot replace the decision that a majority of Bolivians made at the ballot box to turn the page on two decades of corrupt governments."

It also said that anyone who is funding protests with "dirty money" from drug trafficking and transnational crime "should be held accountable. Those who have legitimate grievances should take advantage of the government’s willingness to dialogue, and denounce those who would abuse their causes to regain power."

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The State Department made the joint statement along with Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago.

The statement comes as Bolivia's capital, La Paz, has been rocked by weeks of social unrest as mass protests have blocked streets in major cities amid economic inflation and rising fuel prices.

Bolivian Defense Minister Marcelo Salinas resigned Tuesday.

Upon taking office, Paz supported a land reform bill to boost agribusiness that Indigenous farmers said put them at risk of eviction. He further scrapped fuel subsidies, sending prices surging by nearly 90%. Motorists complained that the gasoline was contaminated and ruined their cars.

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The Trump administration has said drug traffickers are responsible for inciting the mass unrest.

Meanwhile, former President Evo Morales of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party, the country's first Indigenous president who ruled for an unprecedented 14 years, is calling for early elections. "Paz only has two paths left: a suicidal decision like militarization or ... an election in the next 90 days," he wrote on X.

For almost two years now, Morales has been hiding out in Bolivia's central coca-growing Chapare region, evading an arrest warrant on human trafficking charges relating to allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl. He rejects the allegations as politically motivated.

On Thursday, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a post on X, that the War Department and the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C), a recently established multinational military and political alliance, reject all attempts to overthrow the government of Rodrigo Paz Pereira six months into his term.

"The United States is watching. Bolivia must not allow itself to fall prey to the old status quo of narco-terrorist dominance in the region," Hegseth wrote. "We will continue to support our A3C partners like Bolivia to ensure that narco-terrorists are deterred from profiting on death and destruction in our hemisphere."

Fox News' Louis Casiano contributed to this report.

Thursday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed alarming new reports about the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) investigation.

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Thursday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed the people lining up to defend Scott Pelley after CBS News fired him.

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Thursday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said race should not be a factor in redistricting.

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Thursday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) called for an end to the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act.

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A firestorm of recrimination raged in France on Friday over the feared killing of a missing 11-year-old girl.

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S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Thursday it will preserve its existing eligibility criteria for major benchmarks like the S&P 500, effectively closing the door on expedited inclusion for large technology IPOs such as Elon Musk's SpaceX.

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Floridians will have the chance to approve or reject a proposed constitutional amendment changing property taxes in Florida, Rep. Jimmy Patronis (R-FL) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily, explaining what the proposed changes are and what it means for Sunshine State homeowners.

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Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers uncovered an alien smuggling scheme in the small border town of Eagle Pass that used a hotel room as a stash house to hide multiple illegal aliens. Acting on a tip, a search of the room led to the arrest of two suspected smugglers and four Honduran nationals illegally present in the United States, including a wanted fugitive.

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Former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has come out of retirement by publishing a letter in which he defends his successor, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the cartel-connected politicians singled out by the U.S. government in recent days. In his letter, he calls for the return of the Donald Trump of his first term and claims that the allegations against the members of his MORENA party are all politically motivated and aimed at supporting opposition parties.

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In an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed meeting to reach a resolution to the years-long war between their two nations.

"We see that the United States is fully focused on the issue of Iran, and it would be wrong to simply wait until the war in Europe returns to the center of its attention. Ukraine proposes ending this war through direct engagement between us — and you. I am proposing a meeting," Zelenskyy said in the letter.

"There are countries that have traditionally hosted leaders to resolve issues of war and peace. Switzerland, Türkiye, the countries of the Arab world — many are able and willing to host such a meeting. It is leaders who resolve the key issues. That has always been the case, and it always will be," he asserted.

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Zelenskyy suggested that Europe and the U.S. should also be involved in the peace process.

"Since the war is taking place in Europe, and since Ukraine needs security guarantees, while you also seek security guarantees for yourself, it would be logical to involve those who can genuinely serve as guarantors. We believe Europe should be part of this process — those who truly have the capacity to influence the situation. We also believe that the United States must be part of the process. This is what could help shape a new security architecture for our part of the world," he said.

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He indicated that Ukraine would agree to a ceasefire during the proposed negotiations.

"Ukraine is ready for a full ceasefire for the duration of the negotiations. This is standard practice, and current developments around Iran only reinforce that point. An attempt to establish real silence is the best way to begin talking to one another. We believe it would not simply be an attempt, but a real ceasefire — if that is what you want," he noted.

He also suggested a prisoner swap between the two nations, noting, "Ukraine is ready for an all-for-all exchange of prisoners of war, and this could become a good prologue to ending the war. Serious steps must be taken to return civilians and children who were taken away during the war."

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"If you do not personally come to the conclusion that it is time to end this war, Ukraine will continue fighting for its existence. We will have those who support us. But you, too, will have to fight much harder for your own existence — not Russia’s, but your own. And this is not a threat from me or from Ukraine. It is a fact of Russian history that you know well: when Russia grows tired, change comes," Zelenskyy warned Putin.

Tuesday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner discussed the Trump administration's crackdown on non-profit funding.

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Wednesday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) discussed the "sham" being played by Democrats in his race.

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Wednesday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed professor and podcaster Scott Galloway's support for Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner.

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A Texas high school track and football coach fought through tears on Thursday as he recalled the harrowing events that followed after one of his athletes, Austin Metcalf, was stabbed and killed at a regional track event last spring.

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Wednesday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed "The View's" co-host Sunny Hostin's supporting Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner.

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Wednesday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow said Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt proves Republicans are more fun.

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Accused killers, MS-13 gang members, and sex offenders are just some of the illegal aliens who were able to exploit the Special Immigrant Juvenile program, which offers visas to migrant youth who have been neglected or abused, federal investigators reveal.

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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum was quick to rush to the defense of two more governors from her party, MORENA, who sparked a new controversy after a series of reports revealed that they were the target of cartel investigations by the U.S. government and that they had their visas revoked. Both Mexican governors denied the reports.

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The defense was stunned this week when jury selection wrapped up in the murder trial of a white football star and ended without a black juror

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Tucked away inside the far-left Deadline’s free ad (“Supergirl Advance Tickets Go On Sale Before DC Pic’s June 26 Opening”) for the upcoming Supergirl is the real news: this sucker cost $175 million to produce.

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Google announced Wednesday it will invest $10 million in water infrastructure projects across Texas communities where the tech giant plans to construct data centers, marking the company's first attempt to quell backlash against massive data centers with insatiable needs for power and water.

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