President Joe Biden is planning to lift Cuba's designation as a "state sponsor of terrorism" in the final days of his administration.

The decision is likely to be reversed by the incoming Trump administration. Sen. Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state whose family fled Cuba in the 1950s, supports strong sanctions on Havana's Communist regime.

There is zero doubt in my mind that they meet all of the qualifications for being a state sponsor of terrorism,” Secretary of State-designate Marco Rubio said about Cuba, suggesting