President Trump has decided that the United States is engaged in a formal "armed conflict" with drug cartels his team has labeled terrorist organizations and that suspected smugglers for such groups are "unlawful combatants," the administration said in a confidential notice to Congress this week. The notice was sent to several congressional committees and obtained by The New York Times. It adds new detail to the administration's thinly articulated legal rationale for why three U.S. military strikes the president ordered on boats in the Caribbean Sea last month, killing all 17 people aboard them, should be seen as lawful rather than murder.
White House announces its launching its own drugstore "TrumpRx" where U.S. citizens can buy drugs straight from the government. TrumpRx is the administration's latest move to bring down U.S. drug prices, but it's unlikely to save much for the 92% of Americans with health insurance.
Release the Epstein files
Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military's generals and admirals to gather on short notice " and without a stated reason " at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump admin's firing of senior leaders this year.
The deputy chief of staff said: "You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk; you have made him a martyr ... "You cannot defeat us, you cannot slow us, you cannot stop us, you cannot deter us "You have no idea the dragon you have awakened." "WE are the ones who build, who create, who lift up humanity. You thought you could KILL Charlie Kirk? YOU HAVE MADE HIM IMMORTAL!" "They cannot imagine what they have awakened! They cannot conceive of the army they have arisen in all of us!" He continued: "And now millions will carry on his legacy! And we will devote the rest of our lives to FINISHING the causes for which Charlie gave his last measure of devotion. "We stand for what is good, virtuous and noble. And to those trying to incite violence against us? ... What do you have? You have nothing, you are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are hatred."
Why is Trump covering for Bill Clinton?
Charlie Kirk died wanting the files to be released. Do it for Charlie.