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The president is justifying deadly military strikes on fatal US overdoses. But Venezuela is linked to cocaine, which is far less deadly than fentanyl.
Live updates and the latest news as the Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump to fire a member of the independent Federal Trade Commission without cause.
The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Adam Smith of Washington, who saw the footage last week in a classified briefing, told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, “It seems pretty clear they don’t want to release this video because they don’t want people to see it, because it’s very, very difficult to justify.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces pressure to release the video of a controversial follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is reviewing a separation of powers dispute over the firing of an FTC commissioner.
President Donald Trump, for the first time since the summer, is hitting the road to tout his economic agenda and announce a new move to help some of his key supporters: a $12 billion aid package for farmers paid for by tariff revenues.
The executive order reverses a Biden-era push for LGBTQ policies that shut Christians out of fostering and adoption, but its legal mechanism is left vague.
A ruling in the president’s favor in the case, which deals with his attempt to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, would be a major expansion of presidential authority.