What happened

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Thursday described Tuesday's deadly strike on an alleged drug-trafficking speedboat off the Venezuelan coast as the first salvo in President Donald Trump's new "war" on "narcoterrorists."

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said Trump ordered the military strike "in defense of vital U.S. national interests," and it "was fully consistent with the law of armed conflict." But experts on the law of armed conflict said they saw no legal justification for summarily killing 11 noncombatants in international waters.

Who said what

Trump said the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which he designated a terrorist organization, was using the boat to smuggle drugs to the U.S. But other than a grainy black-and-white vid

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