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  1. Amid stepped-up surveillance flights, a visit of the C.I.A. director and an energy embargo, the White House is trying to increase pressure on Cuba.
  2. Mr. Castro, Cuba’s former president, could soon face charges in the 1996 killings of four volunteer airmen who were members of a humanitarian group that searched for migrants at sea.
  3. The United States has choked off Cuba’s fuel supply, plunging the already impoverished island into an acute energy crisis.
  4. Also, the Eurovision finale. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
  5. State officials had asked the justices to step in to allow the state to use a congressional map in the midterms that was drawn by Democrats and recently approved by voters.