Dua Lisa Kautau

But he stopped short of saying if the Pentagon would release video of a September operation that killed a pair of survivors shipwrecked by an initial strike.

Some Democrats have called that military attacks illegal.

Here is Hegseth speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California, explaining that he did not explicitly order a kill strike, as reported in The Washington Post.

Hegseth added, we will keep killing them so long as they keep killing our people with narcotics so lethal that they are tantamount to chemical weapons.

The official portrait of a transgender health official was recently altered at the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services.

And Paracelina Simmons-Duffin has this exclusive report.

The Trump administration says it will forgive the last part of a record fine against Southwest Airlines.

The penalty stems back to the airline's historic operational meltdown during the 2022 holiday travel season, as NPR's Matt Bloom reports.

Authorities are still hunting for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail.

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Inter-Miami has claimed its first Major League Soccer championship ever.

The team topped Vancouver, the Western Conference representative, by a 3-1 score at Saturday night's MLS Cup.

From Miami, Kayvon Antonio-Hedari reports.

It's early Sunday afternoon in Hong Kong, where polls have been open since 7.30 a.m.

local time in the territory's patriots-only legislative elections.

Polls will close half an hour before midnight.

Hong Kongers are voting to fill 90 seats, but comes as the city is still grieving the deaths of nearly 160 people who died last month when a massive fire spread through seven high-rise towers in Taipo.

That's a northeast suburb of Hong Kong.

The blaze is being called the region's deadliest fire in a century.

I'm Dua Halisai-Caotao, NPR News.