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The United States has struck another boat off the coast of Venezuela.

NPR's Ader Peralta reports this is the sixth time the U.S. is used lethal forced against a boat in the Caribbean in recent weeks.

President Trump says the vessel was, quote, trafficking narcotics.

Trump released a video on social media showing what appears to be a stationary vessel at sea,

which is then blown up by a projectile. He says six, quote, narco-terrorists were killed.

The White House did not provide any evidence that the boat

was carrying drugs. Venezuela's government has claimed that a similar attack killed civilians on a fishing

boat. Last week, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said the boat that had been hit then

was Colombian, carrying Colombian citizens. This isn't a war against drugs, Petro charged. He says it's an attempt

to topple the Venezuelan regime and get its oil. Ederpralta, in Pierre News, Mexico City.

The tenuous ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is being tested. Israel plans to cut aid into Gaza in half,

accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire with the slow release of dead hostages.

And in Gaza, health officials say Israeli forces fatally shot three Palestinians.

President Trump is posthumously awarding slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk with the

Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor.

But instead, Charlie is attaining a far more important milestone.

We're entering his name forever into the eternal roster of true American heroes.

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