Overview

• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he has every authorization needed to hit suspected trafficker boats off Venezuela.
• U.S. officials said a Friday strike killed four people, marking at least the fourth attack in recent weeks.
• At a Navy anniversary event, President Trump said forces struck another vessel on Saturday evening, though it was not clear if this was separate from the Friday action.
• Trump has told Congress the United States is in a non‑international armed conflict with drug cartels, and he signaled the campaign could extend to land routes.
• The United Nations condemned the killings as extrajudicial, while critics note no public evidence the boats carried drugs and question using the military instead of the Coast Guard.