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Hegseth cites 'fog of war' in defending follow-on strike in scrutinized attack on alleged drug boat

Updated 2:10 PM EST, December 2, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited the “fog of war” in defending a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea earlier this year. During Tuesday’s cabinet meeting at the White House, Hegseth said that he did not see that there were survivors in the water when the second strike was ordered and launched in early September, saying that “the thing was on fire” and citing the “fog of war” in defending the strike. ...

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Mike Johnson Faces Revolt from Within His Own Leadership Team

Published Dec 02, 2025 at 11:38 AM EST updated Dec 02, 2025 at 12:38 PM EST Representative Elise Stefanik, a New York lawmaker who serves as chairwoman of House Republican Leadership, blasted House Speaker Mike Johnson, accusing him of siding with a prominent critic of President Donald Trump against legislation she is pushing. Stefanik, a top Trump ally who is running for governor in New York, has been trying to pass legislation in response to the FBI’s investigation into the GOP president's ...

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Putin Says Russia Ready for War With Europe if Attacked

The Russian leader also accused Kyiv’s European allies of trying to undermine peace talks by amending a U.S. peace plan devised with Kremlin input President Vladimir Putin said Russia was ready to fight a war with Europe if attacked and accused the continent’s leaders of trying to sabotage peace efforts, calling recent proposed changes to a U.S. peace plan for Ukraine “absolutely unacceptable.” “We do not plan to fight Europe, I’ve already said it a hundred times. But if Europe wants to fight ...

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USDA Sec. threatens funding cuts to blue states over alleged SNAP data noncompliance

Published Tue, Dec 2 2025 1:14 PM EST Updated 2 Min Ago U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday threatened to cut off federal funding to Democratic-leaning states over their alleged refusal to share SNAP program data with the Trump administration. The administration "will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states" starting next week "until they comply," Rollins told President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting at the White House. Rollins said he ...

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Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint

A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September. The petition marks the first formal complaint over the airstrikes by the Trump administration against suspected drug boats, attacks that the White House says are justified under a novel interpretation of law. …The complaint was filed by Pittsburgh-based human ...

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'I watched it live', Hegseth told Fox the day after September strike where shipwreck survivors were killed

(The Guardian) Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, suggested on Monday that he did not give a direct command to have two survivors of a strike of a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean in September killed in a follow-up attack. But the morning after the attack, of 3 September, Hegseth told his former colleagues on the morning show Fox & Friends that he had monitored the operation in real time. “I can tell you that was definitely not artificial intelligence: I watched it live,” Hegseth said.

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White House says admiral ordered follow-on strike on alleged drug boat, insists attack was lawful

(AP) The White House said Monday that a Navy admiral acted “within his authority and the law” when he ordered a second, follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea in a September U.S. military operation that has come under bipartisan scrutiny. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered the justification for the Sept. 2 strike after lawmakers from both parties on Sunday announced support for congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, citing a published report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order for a second strike that killed survivors on the boat in that incident.

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Democrats begin congressional probe of Kash Patel's use of FBI Gulfstream jet

(CBS News) FBI Director Kash Patel's travel to watch his girlfriend sing at a Pennsylvania sporting event is now being investigated by the top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee. Citing a series of recent media reports, the committee Democrats allege Patel has used the FBI's Gulfstream passenger jet for a series of recent flights for a "date night" in Tennessee and an outing with friends in Texas. The panel's Democrats have asked Patel to respond with travel records, passenger information and any communication with passengers about the recent flights.

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Trump Fires Off Over 160 Truth Social Posts in Frenetic, Late-Night Blitz

(Mediaite) President Donald Trump unleashed a frenetic, late-night posting binge on Monday, flooding Truth Social with more than 160 posts in less than five hours, in a wild spectacle that saw him teeing off on political opponents and policies. From 7 p.m. to nearly midnight (ET), the president reposted an endless stream of clips, some of which were duplicated in what appeared to be an automatic loop, amplifying MAGA-friendly pundits and conspiracy theories.

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