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Learn more at NEI Academy.org. We start the day's other headlines with what the Trump

administration is calling its armed conflict with drug cartels. Defense Secretary Pete

Hegeseth says U.S. forces destroyed a boat near Venezuela that he says was trafficking narcotics.

He posted this video on social media saying that four narco terrorists were killed,

but he offered no details on who they were or if they were affiliated with any group.

In his own social media post, President Trump said the boat was, quote,

loaded with enough drugs to kill 25 to 50,000

people. This is the fourth such strike in the Caribbean this year, and it comes a day after

President Trump declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants. Officials in the UK say one of

the two men killed in yesterday's attack on a Manchester synagogue may have been

accidentally shot by police. They say preliminary forensic evidence found the victim's wound was

quote consistent with a gunshot injury. Officers shot and killed the suspect after he rammed a car

into pedestrians outside the synagogue and then attacked them with a knife,

police say he did not have a gun. Prime Minister Kier Starrmer visited Manchester Police

Headquarters today, saying the incident would have been worse without their efforts.

I've been to the scene to pay my respects and to get a sense of what you were confronted with.

I've also seen the body-worn cameras and the footage out of that.

And I am absolutely clear in my mind as to the professionalism of the response,

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