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Top military officer central to Trump’s drug war will step down early

By Dan Lamothe, Tara Copp and Noah Robertson
Oct 16, 2025 8:00 pm - The U.S. military’s top officer overseeing operations in Central and South America will leave his assignment well ahead of schedule, officials said Thursday — an abrupt, surprising departure as President Donald Trump shows interest in extending his administration’s campaign of violence against drug cartels in the region.
Senate blocks military spending bill as shutdown drags on

By Riley Beggin and Theodoric Meyer
Oct 16, 2025 7:49 pm - Senate Democrats blocked a $852 billion bill that would fund the Defense Department through September, rejecting Republican efforts to approve individual full-year spendi...
Trump says he’ll meet with Putin in Hungary. He first meets Friday with Zelenskyy at the White House

By AAMER MADHANI, SEUNG MIN KIM and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Oct 16, 2025 7:36 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is redoubling his efforts to end the war in Ukraine, announcing a second meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin one day before sitting d...
Russian barrage causes blackouts in Ukraine as Zelenskyy seeks Trump’s help

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
Oct 16, 2025 7:31 pm - KYIV, Ukraine — Russia battered Ukraine’s energy facilities with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in its latest heavy bombardment of the country’s power grid, au...
Ex-Trump national security adviser Bolton charged with storing and sharing classified information

By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Oct 16, 2025 7:24 pm - Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton was charged Thursday with storing top secret records at home and sharing with relatives diarylike notes about his time in government that contained classified information.
Appeals court won’t let Trump deploy National Guard in Illinois for now

By Mark Berman
Oct 16, 2025 4:43 pm - A federal appeals court on Thursday said that it would not let President Donald Trump deploy troops in Illinois for now, leaving in place a judge’s ruling that blocked the administration from placing the National Guard in the Chicago area.
US rejects bid to lease coal from public lands in Utah as sales in western states fall flat

By MATTHEW BROWN
Oct 16, 2025 4:22 pm - BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal officials rejected a mining company’s bid for more than 6 million tons of coal beneath a national forest in Utah, marking the third proposed coa...
As dispute over hostages’ bodies tests ceasefire, Israelis bury their dead

By Abbie Cheeseman, Louisa Loveluck and Heidi Levine
Oct 16, 2025 4:15 pm - Israel identified the bodies of two more hostages Thursday, the Israeli military confirmed, after their remains were released from captivity in Gaza as part of a fragile U.S.-backed ceasefire agreement.
Trump warns Hamas ‘we will have no choice but to go in and kill them’ if bloodshed persists in Gaza

By AAMER MADHANI
Oct 16, 2025 3:58 pm - President Donald Trump on Thursday warned Hamas “we will have no choice but to go in and kill them” if internal bloodshed persists in Gaza.The grim warning from Trump came after he previously downplayed the internal violence in the territory since a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect last week in the two-year war.
US Special Operations helicopters near Venezuela expand Caribbean mission

By Alex Horton and Samuel Oakford
Oct 16, 2025 3:43 pm - The U.S. military’s elite Special Operations aviation unit appears to have flown in Caribbean waters less than 90 miles from the coast of Venezuela in recent days, according to a visual analysis by The Washington Post.The helicopters were engaged in training exercises, according to a U.S. official, that could serve as preparation for expanded conflict against alleged drug traffickers, including potentially missions inside Venezuela.

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