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Podcast: The President's Daily Brief
Episode: Trump Greenlights Covert War Against Cartels & Israel Approves Gaza War Expansion
Description: In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin:
President Trump secretly signs off on using U.S. military force against Latin American drug cartels. It’s a dramatic escalation in the war on drugs—and it could put American troops on foreign soil.
Israel’s security cabinet approves a new plan to seize control of Gaza City, aiming to evacuate nearly half the territory’s population and eliminate Hamas’s last major foothold. The controversial strategy is set to begin on the symbolic anniversary of the October 7th attacks—but critics at home and abroad are urging I...