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May 24, 2026
Good morning! Today is Sunday, May 24th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. A gunman opened fire near the White House Saturday evening before Secret Service officers killed him, wounding a bystander and triggering a 45-minute lockdown while President Trump was inside. The USS Nimitz and its strike group have entered the Caribbean as the Justice Department indicts 94-year-old Raúl Castro and intelligence leaks warn of Cuban drones, with Ted Snider arguing the parallels to January's Venezuela raid suggest Trump was serious about saying "Cuba is next.". A Quincy…
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