News Summaries in November 2025
Note to readers: summaries may sometimes be posted in two places, at least for a time, when older stories are involved. They temporarily will be placed at the top to call attention to them but also placed in chronological order farther down. Summaries of older stories no longer will say “posted out of chronological order.” Thank you for your attention to this matter. “Hegseth Order on First Caribbean Boat Strike, Officials Say: Kill Them All,” Washington Post, Nov. 28, 2025 Two men clinging to a burning boat struck by a U.S. military rocket attack lost their lives when their bodies were blown apart by a second strike in which the Seal Team 6 commander followed the order of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to leave no survivors. The Sept. 2 attack “was the opening salvo in the Trump administration’s war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere,” wrote Post reporters Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima. Even if t...