WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 12-3-25 (1/3)

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

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With World Radio News, I'm Mark Mellinger. The Trump administration is doubling down in its defense of a double strike. Lawmakers in both parties are concerned the second strike on a suspected drugboat from Venezuela three months ago could be a war crime, but the White House is defending the follow-up hit, which targeted survivors of the initial strike as a lawful act of self-defense. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is distancing himself from the state. second strike, saying he didn't see survivors in the water while watching the initial strike live, did not stick around for the conclusion, and that the Admiral in charge, Frank Bradley,

made the right call in ordering the second hit. Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat. Heggseth making those comments during a cabinet meeting Tuesday. Meantime, as lawmakers in both parties step up their scrutiny of the strike, some are calling for Hegseth's ouster. Admiral Bradley is expected. to give a classified briefing to lawmakers overseeing the military Thursday. After Democrats won prominent races in places like Virginia and New Jersey last month, Republicans were hoping for a bounceback win in Tennessee last night. They got it, but it wasn't easy.

Republican Matt Van Epps held Tennessee's 7th District, congressional seat for the GOP. In Tuesday's special election, fending off Democrat Afton Bain. Van Epps won by a solid, roughly 10-point margin. President Trump won the district by more than 20 points three times. The suspect in last week's D.C. shooting that killed one National Guard member and left another fighting for his life, now formally faces murder and assault charges. The Afghan National made a court appearance remotely from his hospital bed.

U.S. attorney for D.C. Janine Piro says she's throwing the book at him. We are pursuing everything. There is nothing off the table right now. An attorney entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. As President Trump blames Minnesota's Somali community for a huge fraud scheme involving the state's social services, leaders in Minneapolis are bracing for immigration enforcement operations in the next few days. Mayor Jacob Fry promises local police won't support immigration and custom enforcement or ICE activity. Our values and our commitment to the Somali community, to every community of immigrants and people in our city, is rock solid and will be unwavering. As part of the recently uncovered fraud scheme, Somali immigrants are suspected of funneling U.S. taxpayers' money to an al-Qaeda-linked terror group in Somalia.

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