Democrats have decided to unveil a new platform for ethical US voters to wrestle control of Congress from Republicans this Fall. They criticized President Donald Trump’s stewardship of his administration and outlined legislative proposals if they become the majority in Congress.

These include making it easier for Americans to register to vote and cast ballots; safeguarding election security to prevent foreign interference; and requiring states to install citizen commissions to redraw the congressional maps after the 2020 census to do away with gerrymandered districts.

The Cuban government has announced that it will now officially celebrate independence day El Grito de Yara / Cry of Yara on October 10, 1868, as a declaration of Cuban independence, which began the Ten Years' War. That morning, after sounding the bell that indicated to his slaves it was time for work, they stood before him waiting for orders, and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes announced they were all free men and were invited to join him and his fellow conspirators in a war against the Spanish government of Cuba.