CIA Director John Ratcliffe held high-level talks in Cuba focused on intelligence cooperation, economic stability and security issues amid strained U.S.-Cuba relations.

The United States is taking steps towards indicting 94-year-old former Cuban president Raúl Castro, according to media reports.

The State Department said in a statement Wednesday that the U.S. is prepared to give $100 million in “direct assistance to the Cuban people” — which Cuba’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez, called a ...