Michelle Kellerman

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.

Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.

UN member states met last week to recommit themselves to what's known as the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

But the U.S.

State Department says its goal is not to manage migration, but to foster what it calls re-migration, that is getting migrants to leave the U.S.

and return to their home countries.

In a statement, the department also accuses the U.N.

of trying to advocate for and facilitate, quote, replacement immigration in the U.S.

The State Department did not explain what that means, though the language echoes that of the white nationalist Great Replacement Theory.

Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.

UN member states met last week to recommit themselves to what's known as the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

But the U.S.

State Department says its goal is not to manage migration, but to foster what it calls re-migration, that is getting migrants to leave the U.S.

and return to their home countries.

In a statement, the department also accuses the U.N.