A bombshell Politico report published Tuesday, culled from 2,900 pages of Telegram messages, laid bare the spine-curling racism, antisemitism, misogyny and other bigotry that’s just casual conversation among leaders of Young Republican groups from various states. “They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery,” Politico helpfully summarized. It’s been quite a week for undeniable Republican gutter racism. In pre-Trump America, this would have been met by near-universal opprobrium among GOP leadership and the conservative commentariat. But this is Trump’s America, and while many right-leaning pundits and politicians are eager to change the subject, Trump’s vice president wasn’t about to be bullied into unequivocally denouncing racism among the future leadership of his par…

The U.S. struck another alleged drug vessel Tuesday night, this time on the Pacific side of South America, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed Wednesday. In what is the eighth known U.S. attack on a boat since Sept. 2, two individuals aboard the vessel were killed, Hegseth said. The other seven strikes targeted vessels in the Caribbean. A defense official confirmed the vessel was in international waters off of Colombia. Hegseth wrote on social media that the Defense Department conducted the strike at President Trump's direction and alleged the vessel was operated by a "designated terrorist organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific."...

US forces have struck another vessel alleged to be carrying drugs, this time in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, the Pentagon has confirmed. According to defence secretary Pete Hegseth, two people on board the vessel were killed. No US forces were harmed. The vessel was known to US intelligence and was believed to be carrying drugs along a known trafficking route in international waters, Hegseth added. The strike marks the eighth US strike against suspected drug boats since 2 September - but the first in the Pacific...

The U.S. military carried out another strike on a suspected drug vessel, this time in the Eastern Pacific, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday. The strike Tuesday against a boat allegedly carrying drugs is the eighth conducted by the Trump administration. The previous seven happened in the Caribbean. "Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific. The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route, and carrying narcotics," Hegseth said...

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