President Donald Trump claimed without citing legal authority on Thursday that he doesn’t need the approval of Congress to conduct his boat strike campaign in the Caribbean, simply saying his administration is “just gonna kill people.” In a press conference on Thursday, Trump also claimed that Congress was in favor of the strikes. When asked why he wouldn’t seek congressional approval for the…
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The U.S. bombed two boats in the Pacific Ocean in two days, the Trump administration announced this week, in a major escalation of the U.S.’s aggression as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has vowed that the “strikes will continue, day after day.” Hegseth announced both strikes in nearly identical posts on X on Wednesday, bringing the total number of publicly announced attacks to nine.
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Tensions are escalating between Colombia and the United States as President Trump conducts deadly airstrikes on supposed “drug boats” in the Caribbean. Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the U.S. of committing murder for killing a Colombian fisherman in one attack in mid-September and just recalled the country’s ambassador, Daniel García-Peña. “Even if they were in fact carrying drugs…
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The Trump administration is attacking boats in the Caribbean Sea with such frequency that it may blow up another between the publication of this article and your reading of it. The administration has so far failed to produce any hard evidence behind its allegations that the seven speedboats destroyed by U.S. airstrikes were carrying narcotics. As of October 21, reports indicate that 32 people have…
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The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee has called for a hearing on the Trump administration’s strikes in the Caribbean after the White House officially escalated its aggression to target Colombia as well as Venezuela, completely bypassing Congress. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Washington) said in a statement that, over a month after the strikes first began, the Trump administration has…
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqualified by the government of President Nicolás Maduro, with fellow opposition leader Edmundo González standing in for her. Venezuela’s National Electoral Council ultimately declared Maduro the winner…
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