White House distances Hegseth from second strike on alleged drug boat – US politics live from the Guardian Shrai Popat (now) and Yohannes Lowe (earlier)

Defence secretary gave order for strikes but did not say to ‘kill everybody’, according to White House spokesperson

Joseph Gedeon is a politics breaking news reporter based in Washington

The FBI director, Kash Patel, is “in over his head” and leading a “chronically under-performing” agency paralyzed by fear and plummeting morale, according to a scathing 115-page report compiled by a national alliance of retired and active-duty FBI special agents and analysts.

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