Rubio to Testify Before Senate, Arguing for Budget Amid Iran War and Pressure on Cuba
The secretary of state has played a key role in the Iran deliberations, as well as in U.S. policy toward Cuba.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to begin lengthy testimony before Congress as the war in Iran and the latest Ebola outbreak have been thrust to the forefront of American foreign policy concerns.
The secretary of state has played a key role in the Iran deliberations, as well as in U.S. policy toward Cuba.
President Donald Trump is still optimistic the US can reach an interim peace deal with Iran soon, after the Islamic Republic threatened to suspend talks because of Israel’s escalating attacks in Lebanon.
Trump says negotiations are continuing at a "rapid pace."
A Kenyan high court instructed the authorities to disclose details of an agreement with the US government to establish an Ebola quarantine facility in the East African nation.
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered differing accounts of a call about the fighting in Lebanon, as the US struggled to get efforts toward an Iran peace deal back on track. The mismatched statements were the latest example of confusing signals on progress to end a war. Bloomberg's Abeer Abu Omar reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
Iran has severed all diplomatic talks with the United States, accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire by bombing its proxy militia Hezbollah in Lebanon.
President Trump said he would be 'okay' if the Iranian regime refused to return to talks. The administration also appeared to abandon its $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund. NBC News' Garrett Haake reports.
Kathleen Hicks, former US Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Biden administration and senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, says the path out of the Iran conflict requires experienced negotiators and professional diplomatic teams. She also weighs in on the future of autonomous-weapons spending at the Pentagon. She speaks with Kailey Leinz and Joe Mathieu on the late edition of Bloomberg's "Balance of Power." (Source: Bloomberg)