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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing growing pressure over a Washington Post report that he ordered the military to “kill everybody” in a boat strike in the Caribbean, with Democrats alleging a potential war crime and President Trump saying he wouldn’t have ordered a second strike.

The Post reported Friday that Hegseth issued an order to “kill everybody” before the first strike against an alleged drug-trafficking boat on Sept. 2 . The first strike did not immediately kill all 11 people, whom the administration has called “narco-terrorists,” aboard the vessel, prompting the Special Operations commander overseeing the op

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