“Our message resonated across the district that Washington is not working for working families,” Behn said at that stage. The defence secretary offered a robust defence for the September 2nd US missile strike on an alleged Venezuelan gunboat. The revelation emerged that two people who had survived the first strike were subsequently killed in a second strike, which Democratic politicians and some legal experts say could constitute a war crime. And that’s the way president Trump has authorised the war department to look at these cartels. Meantime, both Republican and Democratic strategists will read the tea leaves in the returns from the Tennessee heartland rural counties such as Benton and Humphreys.

Source: The Irish Times December 03, 2025 22:56 UTC