Michelle Kellerman

The State Department says the U.S.

has a, quote, ironclad commitment to ensuring that its response to the Ebola outbreak is fully resourced and rapid.

Officials brush off criticism that the dismantlement of America's main aid agency is hampering the response.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his advisors accused the World Health Organization for being slow to identify the outbreak the U.S.

pulled out of the WHO last year.

Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.

The State Department says the U.S.

has a, quote, ironclad commitment to ensuring that its response to the Ebola outbreak is fully resourced and rapid.

Officials brush off criticism that the dismantlement of America's main aid agency is hampering the response.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his advisors accused the World Health Organization for being slow to identify the outbreak the U.S.

pulled out of the WHO last year.

The State Department is sending disaster relief teams to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda and setting up clinics to provide emergency Ebola screening, though that could take weeks.

Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.

Cuba's energy minister says that the oil donated from Russia, which the U.S.

allowed in in late March, has now run out.

Venezuela and Mexico stopped sending fuel earlier this year because of the threat of U.S.

tariffs.

The State Department doesn't call this a blockade, however, writing in a statement to NPR that, quote, "...the false narrative of a blockade against Cuba is just one of the many lies spread by the failing dictatorship on the island."

The U.S.

has offered Cuba $100 million in aid to be distributed by the Catholic Church or other aid groups as it pushes for what it calls meaningful reforms to Cuba's communist system.