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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Since I didn't get much attention with yesterday's Code Red 🔴

Today I would like to share my thoughts on a brighter topic than yesterday.

The BIG RED BUTTON in the briefcase? 🔴💼

Good morning, the forecast for the Niagara Peninsula is warmer today, 50° F, and partly sunny 🌤️ I have a dentist's appointment at 2:00 PM, which will not get in the way of anything, except that I would much rather spend more time in my Green Space. The rest of the week is crap weather, rain, and cool until the weekend. The temperatures are going to hover around the freezing mark Thursday and Friday, then turn milder again. You know how that goes. You get a promise of nice spring weather only to get that one last puke of snow.

I feel a little frazzled this morning. Still, I hope I get through it without getting ill again, as I did yesterday morning. I've been feeling OK for the last couple of months. Why is this shit coming back? I guess misery likes me; it just doesn't want to leave me be. What's scary is, every time I get Ill, when I recover, I feel weaker. It takes longer to regain my strength. Faculty-wise, it hasn't bothered me in the least, except for slowing me down or bogging down my stream of thoughts. Sometimes, composition feels like swimming through molasses when I am ill.

When I am not ill, just pick any topic and try me. Absent-mindedness, yes, forget the little stuff, yes, like the nickel and dime stuff, like, "don't forget to get some bread!" I forgot the bread, or like losing or misplacing car keys, wallets, credit cards, cell phones, purses, pills, and oh, a lot of "where did I put that?"

Mental Accuity:

But there wasn't anything wrong with my mental processes; if anything, I am above average for perception. Feeling and seeing it in my mind like I was there, sometimes in a flashback. For example, I remember when I was very young, I took a Timex wristwatch apart, put it back together, and watched the mainspring expand and retract; it still worked. I also liked playing around in the tool room, inventing stuff that would help my mom with the kitchen chores, or fix the car with makeshift parts; stuff like that, I didn't forget. I still like tinkering, inventing little items for use around the house. I would have loved working in a research lab. I worked in an electronics R&D lab for a while, and I loved it, but then the company folded. Sorry about this, I hadn't meant to go on for this long with my comments from the Newsroom.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

The God Particle:

- Google Search -

Search: The God Particle

The "God particle" is the popular nickname for the Higgs boson, an elementary particle discovered in 2012 that explains how other particles gain mass. It is vital to the Standard Model of physics because, without the underlying Higgs field giving mass, matter as we know it would not exist.

This video explains the origin of the nickname "God Particle":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CufRfgjDusg

• Discovery: The particle was confirmed on July 4, 2012, by ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

• What it does: It acts as a wave or excitation in the Higgs field, which permeates all of space and imparts mass to fundamental particles like quarks and electrons.

Read More: - Google Search -

My Thoughts:

The racing mind can glimpse the infinite possibilities of the universe, so much information, and for a split second, you see it with clarity, and you yell, "EUREKA!" I found it, and a second later, the image begins to fade, growing foggier and harder to put together in the temporal three-dimensional world.

Physicists labeled it the "God particle," which is the popular nickname for the Higgs boson, an elementary particle that emanates all of space, allowing mass to fundamental particles such as quarks and electrons, as best I can remember.

Is the universe only one Big Bang out of many other Big Bangs? Is it like raindrops in a pond, with gravitational waves forever expanding outward, overlapping one another across the Fabric of Time and Space? How big is infinity? Is infinity empty or full?

Try to describe that with an equation. See, my body may be burned out today, but the light bulb in the attic is still shining brightly, thank you 🙇‍♀️

Have a pleasant day, stay safe, and be blessed. AMEN!

BREAKING NEWS:

US expected to deploy paratroopers to the Middle East, as Iran taunts White House

Here's The Latest:

• US troop deployment: Around 1,000 US soldiers with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division are expected to deploy in coming days to the Middle East, sources told CNN.

• Talks to end war: Iran has taunted the White House by suggesting it may be negotiating with itself after US President Donald Trump expressed optimism about an end to the war. It is still unclear whether Tehran has agreed to any of the terms in a 15-point proposal from the US that sources said was shared with Iran via Pakistan.

• Strikes persist: A residential area in Tehran was hit by an airstrike, according to the Iranian Red Crescent said. Drones struck a fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport, the country’s civil aviation authority said.

• Strait of Hormuz: Multiple vessels have passed through the strait since yesterday morning, tracking data appears to show, as Iran says it will charge countries a fee for safe passage through the critical waterway...

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Updated 9:51 AM EDT, Wed March 25, 2026

- CNN -

4 min ago

Global trade may splinter as Hormuz disruption fuels “unilateralism,” expert warns

More To Read:

Democrat Emily Gregory flips deep-red Florida House district that includes Mar-a-Lago

Democrat Emily Gregory has won a special state House election in a Palm Beach district that includes President Donald Trump’s Florida home of Mar-a-Lago, adding another special election win to a recent string of victories around the country for Democrats.

Tuesday’s election was a prime opportunity for Democrats in the ruby-red Sunshine State to notch a win in a state where the party is often short of them, in a district with political resonance.

Gregory, a business owner and military spouse running for office for the first time, defeats Republican Jon Maples, a former council-member of nearby Lake Shores who first received Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement” in January.

• Another Democratic special election win:

Since the start of this year, Democrats have flipped seats in Arkansas, New Hampshire and Texas, where they won a state Senate district

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1 hr 47 min ago

Updated Mar 25, 2026, 7:58 AM ET

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This Texas city has just a few months’ worth of water left — and insatiable industry demand

The rapidly receding shoreline of Lake Corpus Christi in Texas has revealed swaths of newly exposed lakebed, left boat docks jutting out into nothingness and uncovered previously submerged remnants of history, from bridges to boathouses.

On a recent visit, local resident Isabel Araiza found parts of the lake so transformed, she could scarcely believe there was ever water there. “It’s just a lawn,” said the college professor and co-founder of For the Greater Good, a local grassroots group focused on water issues.

Lake Corpus Christi is a key water source for the city of Corpus Christi, a petrochemical and oil refining hub nestled on the Gulf coastline, but it has shrunk to historic lows as the region grapples with a five-year drought. It now stands at just over 9% of its capacity. A similar story is unfolding at other lakes the city depends on: Nearby Choke Canyon Reservoir is less than 8% full, and farther northeast, Lake Texana is roughly 50% full...

• An industrial plant behind Corpus Christi's Hillcrest neighborhood in 2022. IMAGE | Included:

• Lake Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 22, 2022 and again on March 21, 2026 2 IMAGES | Included:

• An industrial-sized thirst:
• A problem years in the making:

• From left, Debra Ramirez and Lois Malvo demonstrate against the proposed Inner Harbor desalination plant in Corpus Christi in 2024

IMAGE | Included:

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PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2026, 6:00 AM ET - 3 hr ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Province planning to remove HST on new homes for 1 year

Eligible buyers could receive a maximum rebate of $130K for new homes valued up to $1 million for one year

The province is planning to temporarily remove Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) for buyers of new homes. Premier Doug Ford announced the plan Wednesday at a news conference in Mississauga, saying the full 13 per cent tax will be removed for new homes valued up to $1 million from April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027.

"For too many families, the dream of home ownership is being pulled out of reach by high costs and economic uncertainty," said Ford. Taxes, development fees and other costs add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost of a new home, said Ford...

• Who is eligible for the HST break?:

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Posted: Mar 25, 2026 9:25 AM EDT | Last Updated: 24 minutes ago

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Canada is pitching its energy ambitions in Texas — can the oil and gas industry be convinced?

Oil and gas execs encouraged by policy changes, still want to see action to support energy sector expansion

In Texas this week for a global energy conference, the federal natural resources minister is proclaiming "Canada is back" and ready to bolster its energy sector and grow exports. The message by Tim Hodgson comes at a time when the world is confronting an energy crisis caused by the U.S.-Israel war against Iran, which is raising fears of a spike in inflation and a possible global recession.

Though industry executives welcomed Hodgson’s enthusiasm at the CERAWeek conference in Houston and the overall direction of the government under Prime Minister Mark Carney, they still say they want to see considerable action before they'll be convinced the federal government is serious — both about becoming an energy superpower and changing the country’s reputation as being reluctant to expand energy supply and exports, especially oil and natural gas...

• WATCH | Interest in Canadian energy is up, federal natural resources minister says:
• More federal, provincial unity: minister:
• Energy execs say progress being made:
• Ottawa faces global competitition:

WATCH | What everyone at the global energy conference in Texas is talking about:

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Posted: Mar 25, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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"Trump PANICS As NATO Allies LAUGH In His Face Over Hormuz!" | Bill Clinton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U23xkBFl8Zc

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Hi everyone, I will keep it short this morning. We will be out of town for a while today, and I will likely not have time to write a news report. Thank you for dropping by to read the Tree House News 🏡. Comments are also welcome 😉

I apologize to those who leave messages and don't get a response. I am grateful that you got in touch with me. It is difficult for me to find enough time to check all the message boxes every day. I welcome you from my Tree House News group here on this platform where you are reading this note, and I thank this platform for supporting my news group 🤫☺️ 📰 I do not have much news this morning to report for the simple reason I don't have the time to do all the research, which I should have done last night, and I forgot 🤨😔

I am including something I posted yesterday. I was quite surprised by how little attention it got.

IT IS A WAKE-UP CALL, A GENERAL ALARM TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE PERSON WHO HAS THE POWER TO LAUNCH A FIRST STRIKE NUCLEAR ATTACK. HE JUST STARTED A WAR WITH IRAN. THINK ABOUT IT.

- Code Red 🔴-

PYROMANIAC:

- Google Search -

Query: A person who is addicted to explosions desires to see bigger and more destructive explosions

🔹AI Overview

A person who is addicted to explosions and desires to see increasingly larger and more destructive results likely exhibits symptoms of a rare impulse-control disorder known as pyromania. While traditionally associated with fire, pyromania includes an obsession with explosives and a compulsion to witness the destruction, pleasure, or relief they bring.

Psychological Characteristics

• Impulse-Control Disorder:

• Tension and Relief:

• Fixation on Destruction:

• Escalation:

Read More:

What's Next?

The BIG RED BUTTON in the briefcase? 🔴💼

• Thank you, everyone, for just walking on by:

Walk On By by Leroy Van Dyke - 1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oJ-wMY5bsM

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Hi folks, I will be delivering only a short report for today. I had some difficulties with nausea from my GERD acting up, so I just lay back in the recliner for a couple of hours' rest. I feel better than I did, although I still feel like Sylvester the cat in the cartoons after being dragged backward tail-first through a knothole in a board fence. Leaves you kind of disheveled, doesn't it? ((🫨))

Well, anyway, I'm still here, in one piece, and the opportunity to share my opinions, thoughts, and comments on the daily happenings in this crazy world at the moment. The topics are all well-researched using Google Search, SNOPES, and other fact-checkers. If I am misled or make an error in any of my topics, I will admit my error and apologize promptly.

I analyze and report on the top breaking news stories and provide a recap of the day's headlines. Thank you for reading The Tree House News.

Now for the breaking News.

BREAKING NEWS:

CANADIAN NEWS:

Air Canada LaGuardia crash live: Two pilots dead; passenger recounts ‘absolute slam’ of collision; listen to audio from air traffic control

Thirty-two people have been released from hospital, while others have serious injuries, say officials.

Two pilots have died after an Air Canada Express plane from Montreal collided with a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York shortly before midnight Sunday. Follow the Star’s live coverage today.

What We Know so Far:

• Two Air Canada pilots were killed after their plane collided with a fire truck:
• The flight originated in Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport:
• Forty-one people, including passengers and crew, were taken to hospital:

Updated 1 min agolink icon

Airport fire truck's bright colour meant to help make it 'easily visible' to pilots, ground crews

Updated 8 mins ago

Listen to audio from LaGuardia air traffic controller after Air Canada crash: 'I messed up'

More To Read:

Developing:

- LIVE -

Updated March 23, 2026 - 44 sec ago

- TORONTO STAR -

Trump announces U.S. talks with Iran, 5-day pause on strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure

Iran’s foreign ministry has reportedly denied that talks are underway and suggested Trump’s post was an effort to reduce energy prices.

VIDEO | Included:

As the Iran war enters its fourth week, President Donald Trump on Monday announced that the United States has engaged in diplomatic talks with Iran and is taking a five-day pause on strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure. “I am pleased to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,” Trump wrote in an all-caps message posted to Truth Social.

He continued: “Based on the tenor and tone of these in depth, detailed, and constructive conversations, which will continue throughout the week, I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meeting and discussions.” In a subsequent Truth Social post on Monday, Trump said the U.S. was getting “very close to meeting our objectives” and suggested American involvement in the Iran war could be “winding down.”

• Follow MS NOW’s live blog for the latest updates on the Iran war:

Over the weekend, Trump threatened to “obliterate their various power plants” in Iran if the country did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Legal experts told MS NOW that such attacks could constitute war crimes.

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Mar. 23, 2026, 10:11 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

ICE officers deployed to some airports as TSA callouts worsen

Where Things Stand:

• ICE deploys to airports: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are heading to 13 airports today to help with crowd management as the Transportation Security Administration faces growing callouts from officers during the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown.

• Growing travel woes: Travelers have been dealing with worsening airport wait times as TSA workers have gone without pay since funding for DHS lapsed in mid-February. Track wait times at major airports here.

• No end to shutdown in sight: There are few signs lawmakers will reach an agreement to fund DHS, which includes TSA, ahead of a scheduled holiday break. President Donald Trump injected a new demand Sunday, saying he doesn’t want to make a deal unless Democrats support an elections overhaul bill.

Read More:

10 min ago

Trump’s ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News

More To Read:

Updated 11:55 AM EDT, Mon March 23, 2026

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PYROMANIAC:

- Google Search -

Query: A person who is addicted to explosions desires to see bigger and more destructive explosions

🔹AI Overview

A person who is addicted to explosions and desires to see increasingly larger and more destructive results likely exhibits symptoms of a rare impulse-control disorder known as pyromania. While traditionally associated with fire, pyromania includes an obsession with explosives and a compulsion to witness the destruction, pleasure, or relief they bring.

Psychological Characteristics

Impulse-Control Disorder:

• Tension and Relief:

• Fixation on Destruction:

• Escalation:

Read More:

What’s Next?

The Big Red button in the briefcase? 🔴💼

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning, everyone! It's an improved, more spring-like morning out there in my Green Space. It was pleasant to linger out there with my coffee this morning, though it was still a little cool, so I wore a sweater. The weather appears to be back to normal here on the Niagara Peninsula, still mostly cloudy but with lighter clouds than the last couple of days. I pray it gets sunny, especially for Tuesday, when we are planning to go out of town.

_*Well, that's about it from me here in the Newsroom, other than I pray you all be well physically, mentally, and spiritually and blessed. Thank you for reading the Tree House News.

TODAY'S TOPIC:

ONTARIO HEALTH CARE

FORWARDED FROM YESTERDAY'S ARTICLE

"LIES!" like how the Ontario Health Care System sucks even after billions of federal dollars being pumped into it. What happened to the promise of hiring American doctors and nurses to expand the health care workforce? Where are the American doctors and nurses since the last infusion of federal funding? The Ontario Health Care system got worse, not better, under the usual way of governing

Ford, Trudeau sign $3.1B health-care funding deal that will see Ontario hire more health workers

Agreement comes year after feds promised to boost health transfers to provinces

Searching further into the ONTARIO HEALTH CARE CAPER,

I came up with this publication, The Bullet. It's a newsletter by the Socialist Project. I do not endorse socialism, but the information in their publication appears to track with other non-political sources to give you, the Tree House News reader, an idea of where Ontario Health Care is going. I SUSPECT IT'S BEING USED TO PAY FOR FORD'S PRIVATISATION DEALS. If Ford were doing it to benefit We, the People, he would not need to defend the destruction of our healthcare system. Rather than rejecting this socialist newsletter, I am posting it for your information and consideration.

- Google Search -

The Ontario Healthcare Crisis

The Budget plan was to decrease total provincial hospital funding for 2024/25 by $250-million, almost one percent. However, the Fall Economic Statement (FES) noted a one billion healthcare funding increase. While the FES did not reveal how this would be spent, the Financial Accountability Office indicated that health spending was 6.7% over budget ($2.6-billion) in the first half of the fiscal year and that this included $1.3-billion for hospitals and home care.

This mimics what occurred in 2023/24 where hospital funding was budgeted to increase 0.5% but, largely through an increase announced at the very end of the fiscal year (in the 2024/25 Budget in fact) the total planned increase was much higher (11%).

This is not the way to fund hospitals. It does not allow hospitals to plan appropriate staffing levels and encourages reliance on overtime and much more expensive for-profit staffing agencies. Hospitals need better funding, but they also need clear guidance on hospital funding when the fiscal year begins at the very latest.

By 2023/24 many hospitals were reporting significant deficits – deficits which they had to get special permission from government to run.

Now, it is not clear that the government will 100% fund the need created by the failure of their Bill 124 real wage cuts. The government has chosen to parcel this money out very slowly, if at all. As a result, by the middle of this fiscal year (2024-25) hospitals faced huge working capital problems, large deficits, negative operating margins, high long-term debt, and extremely high bed occupancy. This is no way to run a vital service that saves people's lives.

The Situation Under the Current Government and Its Future Plans

The PC government promised to end hallway healthcare. This promise is now largely forgotten, given the many hospital capacity failures that have occurred during this government's reign. However, the government does make some promises to increase capacity. These promises do mark a change in policy. After decades of stagnating capacity, the promise now is to increase it. The problem is that what has been done, and what has been promised for the future, are totally inadequate to meet the need for care.

The government's promise to increase LTC capacity remains officially in place – but the government's execution of this promise has been inept, inadequate, and slow.

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February 9, 2025

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Ford defends health-care record as hospitals say financial 'crisis' is coming

Ontario Hospital Association calls for financial certainty to plan long-term

Premier Doug Ford is defending his government's health-care record ahead of his eighth budget, even as the province's hospitals say they face a billion-dollar structural funding deficit.

Ontario’s premier has repeatedly pushed back in recent weeks against criticism that his government is not providing the province’s hospital system with enough funding to address problems like hallway health care.

That comes as the association that represents Ontario’s hospitals is warning that funding uncertainty is causing critical financial strain. Ford, who promised to end hallway health care in hospitals when he was elected in 2018, says the province’s population has grown since then, compounding the problem. He has stressed that his government has rolled out tens of billions in new spending on health care in that time...

• Ontario budget expected to be tabled in coming weeks:
• 'Rapidly developing into a crisis':
• Hospitals face 'deepening structural deficit,' OHA says:
• Funding to recruit and retain medical professionals needed, Ontario's doctors say:
• 'A downward spiral':

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Posted: Mar 09, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: March 9

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My opinion, shout out ONLY •<- big period, that's it.

WAKE UP, PEOPLE! THE FEDERAL MONEY FOR ONTARIO HEALTH CARE IS BEING SIPHONED OFF TO PRIVATISATION.

MY WAKE-UP CALL!

HOW CAN WE HAVE A STRONG CANADIAN ECONOMY IF 90% OF CANADA WAS IN BED SICK OR LAYING HORIZONTALLY IN A COFFIN PASSED AWAY FROM SOME TERRIBLE VIRAL OUTBREAK, WITH NO TECHNICANS, MEDICAL SCIENCE RESEARCHERS, AND DOCTORS TO WORK ON A SIMPLE VACCINE OR HAVE A HOSPITAL BED AVAILABLE TO PUT THE ILL IN? BECAUSE OF THE SHORTAGE OF BEDS IN HOSPITALS, THEY DIE OUT THERE EVERYWHERE, IN ALLEYWAYS, ON THE STREET, IN SHOPPING CENTERS, PARKING LOTS, THEIR APARTMENTS, CARS, TENTS, WHATEVER. NO ONE TO GIVE OUT HEALTHCARE, OR TO CLEAN UP THE MESS AFTERWARD. AND WHO WILL RUN YOUR FACTORIES?

THINK ABOUT IT!

BREAKING NEWS:

Trump to send ICE agents to airports amid partial government shutdown

Here's The Latest:

• ICE agents deployed: President Donald Trump said ICE agents will head to US airports Monday, placing border czar Tom Homan in charge of the effort. Homan told CNN’s “State of the Union” that agents would be there to release Transportation Security Administration officers from “non-significant roles.”

• Shutdown stalemate: The move follows Trump’s warning a day earlier that he would deploy ICE agents if lawmakers failed to reach an agreement to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

• Travel woes: Travelers were warned to expect worsening airport wait times this weekend as Transportation Security Administration workers go without pay due to a partial government shutdown that began in mid-February. You can track wait times at major airports here.

Read More:

2 min ago

More than 400 TSA officers have quit since start of shutdown, DHS says

More To Read:

Updated 10:37 AM EDT, Sun March 22, 2026

- CNN -

Iran vows to ‘irreversibly’ destroy infrastructure after Trump ultimatum on Strait of Hormuz

Dozens have also been injured in Iranian strikes on cities in southern Israel.

Here's The Latest:

• Iran’s threat: Iran says it will retaliate across the Middle East and “irreversibly” destroy the region’s critical infrastructure and energy sites, if US President Donald Trump carries out a threat to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants unless the Strait of Hormuz is “fully open” within 48 hours.

• Strikes on Israel: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned Iran after a missile attack on the southern Israeli city of Arad, which injured at least 84 people. Several people were also wounded in a separate Iranian ballistic missile attack on the city of Dimona.

• Latest from the region: The number of people reported killed in Iran and Lebanon since the start of the conflict is now into the thousands. Saudi Arabia ordered Iran’s military attaché and several embassy staff to leave the country, as Tehran continued to strike neighbors in the Gulf.

Read More:

12 min ago

Israel escalates attacks in Lebanon as Iran vows retaliation if US bombs power plants

More To Read:

Updated 10:47 AM EDT, Sun March 22, 2026

- CNN -

Trump aims to end the revolution that Fidel Castro started. Can the US and Cuba strike a deal?

Cubans plunged into darkness twice in a week

1:27

Havana

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Donald Trump wants us to believe that a deal with Cuba is close at hand. After this past week, I am not so sure.

“They have no energy. They have no money. They’re in deep trouble,” Trump has said, explaining why he believes the Cuban government is desperate to reach an agreement to save the country.

Trump is correct that Havana is under the most severe pressure at any time since the 1962 missile crisis, when a US invasion of the island seemed all but guaranteed.,,

• The ‘Honor of Taking Cuba’:

VIDEO | Included:

Cubans plunged into darkness twice in a week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAC1sDYcWfk