Lawmaker views on Caribbean strikes unchanged after Hegseth briefing

WASHINGTON — U.S. senators left a closed-door meeting Tuesday with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio split over the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug-running vessels near Venezuela, particularly an early September follow-up strike that killed two survivors clinging to boat wreckage. Hegseth and Rubio delivered the all-member briefings to […]