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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending U.S.
military strikes on alleged drug smugglers and says the U.S.
will continue to find, quote, terrorists who bring in drugs.
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 the military strikes illegal.
Here is Hegseth speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum today in California.
He told the audience, what I understand then and what I understand now, I fully support that strike.
I would have made the same call myself.
A Russian mass missile and drone attack hit Ukrainian substations and power generation facilities early Saturday.
The Kiev Independent reports a key power line to a nuclear plant in Zaporizhia was also disconnected.
And Perez Eleanor Beardsley reports.
The Trump administration has added President Trump's birthday, June 14th, to the list of entrance fee-free days at national parks.
And Pierce Chloe Veltman reports.
Day and Juneteenth have been removed from next year's free days schedule.
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