(L) U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after a ceremony for the presentation of the Mexican Border Defense Medal in the Oval Office of the White House on December 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the ceremony, Trump recognized the first 13 service members to receive the recently established Mexican Border Defense Medal (MBDM), which recognizes service members supporting Customs and Border Protection on the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) / (R) U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives for a closed door meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on December 16, 2025 in Washington, DC. Rubio and U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are headed back to Capitol Hill to speak with lawmakers as questions mount about strikes carried out by the U.S. military on suspected drug boats out of Venezuela ordered by the Trump Administration. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) / (Background) Image from U.S Southern Command pictures a boat in the crosshairs of a Military Aircraft prepared to strike (Photo: U.S. Southern Command)

Pentagon declines to release classified and unedited Sept. 2 drug boat strike video, citing ‘long-standing’ policy

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon will not be releasing the classified and unedited video of the September 2nd U.S. military strikes on a boat carrying narcoterrorists and cocaine in the Caribbean. However, select congressional committees would be allowed to view it privately, if they so wish, he added.

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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 15: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel (L) and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi look on during a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House on October 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump and Patel provided an update on the Trump administration’s progress in reducing violent crime. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump and Patel: ‘Operation Summer Heat’ resulted in 8,700 violent crime arrests, confiscating ‘enough fentanyl to kill 55M Americans’

President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel held a joint press conference in the Oval Office to announce the outcomes of “Operation Summer Heat,” a nationwide initiative aimed at curbing violent crime and enhancing public safety in American cities.

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(Background) Kash Patel takes his seat as he arrives for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to be FBI Director, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 30, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) / (R) CORRECTION / A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chemist checks tablets believed to be laced with fentanyl at the DEA Northeast Regional Laboratory on October 8, 2019 in New York. According to US government data, about 32,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2018. That accounts for 46 percent of all fatal overdoses. Fentanyl, a powerful painkiller approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for a range of conditions, has been central to the American opioid crisis which began in the late 1990s. (Photo by Don EMMERT / AFP) / "The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by Don EMMERT has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [tablets believed to be laced with fentanyl] instead of [confiscated powder containing fentanyl]. Please immediately remove the erroneous mention[s] from all your online services and delete it (them) from your servers. If you have been authorized by AFP to distribute it (them) to third parties, please ensure that the same actions are carried out by them. Failure to promptly comply with these instructions will entail liability on your part for any continued or post notification usage. Therefore we thank you very much for all your attention and prompt action. We are sorry for the inconvenience this notification may cause and remain at your disposal for any further information you may require." (Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)

FBI indicts 3 Americans, 22 Chinese nationals and 4 chemical companies after seizing ‘Enough fentanyl to kill 70M Americans’

FBI Director Kash Patel announced the federal indictments of 22 Chinese nationals, four China-based chemical companies, and three Americans for their role in a fentanyl supply chain. The discovery was made possible in part by Operation Box Cutter.

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OPERATION SHOWDOWN - live footage. (Photo via: Fort Worth, Texas officials)

Texas: Fort Worth raid results in 76 arrests, including suspected Tren de Aragua members, 287 illegal firearms and nearly 50 lbs of narcotics

76 individuals, including suspected Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang-affiliated illegal aliens, were arrested by law enforcement officials following a two-month operation, which also saw the seizure of hundreds of illegal firearms and close to fifty pounds of illicit drugs.

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