The Coast Guard called off its search for people who jumped into the sea after watching the U.S. military destroy another ship.
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President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of getting out of foreign wars. He keeps talking about starting more of them.
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Trump cast the Nigeria strikes as an assault on those “who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.”
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“They have a big plant or a big facility where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out. We hit them very hard.”
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The December 24 drone strike in Venezuela is the latest in a long tradition of CIA interventions in Latin America — which often lead to destabilization and blowback.
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Before ordering a second strike on their boat, Adm. Frank Bradley sought legal advice from JSOC’s top lawyer, Col. Cara Hamaguchi, The Intercept has learned.
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For years, I’ve shared names of former soldiers implicated in atrocities with the Pentagon. It’s shown no interest in punishment until Mark Kelly dissed Trump.
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The charges follow a formal investigation after Anthony Green was mysteriously removed from his position in April.
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The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
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The pilot program, added to the military budget behind closed doors, upends an 80-year precedent against covering contractors’ interest payments.
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