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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the U.S. military carried out three strikes Monday in the waters of the Eastern Pacific against boats suspected of carrying drugs, killing 14 and leaving one survivor. The announcement made on social media Tuesday, marks a continued escalation in the pace of the strikes, which began in early September spaced weeks apart. This was the first time multiple strikes were announced in a single day.

@RupertLowe10 We must stop importing those who hate Britain and wish to do us harm. We must start deporting those foreign nationals who hate Britain and wish to do us harm. If that means revoking citizenships from dual nationals on an industrial scale, then that is what must happen. We must stop tolerating the intolerable. This has gone on for too long, with too much harm, death and suffering inflicted along the way. We have welcomed in, and continue to welcome in, foreigners who hate everything that we stand for - almost every day, unvetted men from backward cultures are...

In a shocking moment, a group of radical leftists descended on the U.S. Capitol Building to protest the Medicaid cuts associated with the Big Beautiful Bill, leading police to arrest 34 people who were demonstrating inside one of the Senate’s office buildings. For context, on June 25, 2025, U.S. Capitol Police officers arrested a large group of demonstrators who had come for a “die-in” inside the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building. The group of protestors reportedly included multiple wheelchair-bound individuals and others who feared that their Medicaid coverage would become unaffordable due to the budget cuts proposed in...