Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Cuba, and Why Food Banks Are Getting Squeezed

Your morning listen, all in about 10 minutes

Here’s what we’re covering:

• Raúl Castro’s Indictment is an Extraordinary Increasing of Administration’s Pressure on Cuba, by Alan Feuer, Frances Robles and David C. Adams

• Rubio Approaches Decades-Old Goal of Transforming Cuba By Edward Wong

• Cuba Says It’s Ready to Negotiate, Jack Nicas

• News of U.S. Indictment Slow to Reach Cubans Waiting for a Breakthrough, Written by Emma Bubola

• $5 Million Donation from Big Tobacco Arrives Before FDA Vape Decision by Kenneth P. Vogel and Christina Jewett

• High Gas Prices Are Squeezing America’s Food Banks, By Chris Hippensteel

• WHO Chief Says Ebola Outbreak Unlikely to Become Global Threat Written by Lynsey Chutel, Nick Cumming-Bruce and Ephrat Livni

• Efforts to Contain Ebola May Have Been Hampered by U.S. Failure to Intervene, by Apoorva Mandavilli and Stephanie Nolen

• The Last of Colbert-a by James Poniewozik