US strike in Caribbean leaves survivors
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The US president also indicated Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offered concessions in a bid to lower tensions.
The pair were recovered and are allegedly being kept on a Navy warship. They're the first to survive the half dozen US strikes.
Chad Joseph was among six people killed during U.S. military airstrikes on boats President Donald Trump claim were carrying drugs.
Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.N. is condemning a recent U.S. strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people, calling it “a new set of extrajudicial executions.”
The National Hurricane Center is tracking a tropical wave in the central Atlantic which is moving quickly toward the Caribbean. There also is a non-tropical system over the northwestern Atlantic — well away from Florida — that may develop into a tropical or subtropical storm over the next several days, according to AccuWeather.
The system was located over the central tropical Atlantic as of 1 p.m. Thursday, and forecasters said they expect it to continue moving west at 15 to 20 mph over the next several days. It could develop more once it reaches the warm waters of the Caribbean, forecasters said.
The National Hurricane Center currently gives both disturbances a low chance of developing anytime soon. As of 2 p.m. Friday, the disturbance nearest to the Caribbean had no chance of strengthening into a tropical depression or stronger in the next two days and a 30% chance of formation within the next seven days.
The Justice Department indicted former National Security Adviser John Bolton on charges related to mishandling classified information. Bolton was a vocal critic of President Trump, and his indictment comes on the heels of indictments of other Trump critics,