Trump news at a glance: President reportedly orders military to target drug cartels; plans to meet Putin on Ukraine | Trump administration
Donald Trump would have given a secret directive to the Pentagon to use the military to target the Latin American drug cartels that his administration has appointed terrorist organizations.
The order “provides an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels”, according to the New York Times, which first reported the directive, citing people familiar with the problem. An American official later confirmed the signing of the directive, but declared that military action did not seem imminent and it was not clear exactly what type of operations they would carry out.
The order forced Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum to calm the fears in her country with an American invasion. The directive potentially opens the door to unilateral American military assaults across Latin America, an unprecedented climbing of tactics by an American administration in the region.
Trump did research after Latin American drug trafficking organizations a priority of his administration: in February, the State Department appointed seven groups of crimes organized as foreign terrorist organizations, including five powerful cartels in Mexico.
Meanwhile, Trump is planning a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday next week to discuss the war in Ukraine, and said that the end of the conflict should involve “an exchange of territories”.
Mexico rejects us “invasion” while Trump orders the soldiers to target cartels
President Sheinbaum rejected the idea that the United States could invade Mexico after reporting Trump’s secret directive to the army.
“The United States will not come to Mexico with its soldiers,” she said at a daily press conference on Friday. “We cooperate, we collaborate, but there will be no invasion. It’s out of the table, absolutely out of the table. ”
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Trump to meet Putin to discuss the war in Ukraine
Trump said he will meet Putin to discuss the war on Friday next week in Alaska, saying that the end of the three and a half year war should imply “an exchange of territories towards the improvement of Ukraine and Russia.
Trump made the end of the war in Ukraine part of his electoral campaign and boasted that he would be able to end the conflict in his first 24 hours in power. In addition to six months, however, he has not proven that he has a lever effect with his Russian counterpart, who ignored Trump’s deadlines and continued to hit Ukraine.
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Trump’s ambassador to Israel narrows British PM
The United States Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee launched a non-divromatic attack on Keir Starmer, comparing the Israel War in Gaza to the Allied Dresden attack after the British Prime Minister criticized the Israeli security firm to extend the war to Gaza.
“We expect Israel to go to Hamas and feed them even if the Israeli hostages are hungry?” Huckabee wrote on social networks in response to a post by British Prime Minister calling for an immediate ceasefire and shifting the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as well as the fate of the remaining Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
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Texas House does not meet the quorum
Friday, the Chamber of Representatives of Texas recognized without the necessary number of legislators to lead cases on Friday, the deadline set by the main Republicans of the State before the Democrats who left for the Blue States were in the process of arrest or withdraw from its functions.
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No contempt for Trump officials on deportations
On Friday, a court of appeal threw the judge of an outrage judge against the Trump administration in a case on the notorious deportations of the United States Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador without regular procedure.
The decision of a divided panel of three judges based on the national capital leaves a conclusion from the American district judge James Boasberg.
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Trump demands $ 1 billion in the UCLA to restore federal funding
The Trump administration is looking for a regulation of $ 1 billion at the University of California in Los Angeles, a White House official said on Friday. The administration suspended $ 584 million in federal research funding on allegations of civil rights violations linked to anti -Semitism and positive action following campus demonstrations in 2024.
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Kristi Noem responds to the South Park episode
The recent satirical representation of South Park of Kristi Noem as having undergone a defective cosmetic procedure and shooting dogs stored the US internal security secretary, she said in a new interview.
“It is so lazy to make fun of women for their appearance,” said Noem in the episode of the Podcast of the Glenn Beck program on Thursday – a little more than a year after her disclosure in a memory that she killed her family’s dog on a farm.
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