2025-12-01
14 分钟Good morning.
It's Monday, December 1st.
I'm Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, as more details emerge about the National Guard shooting,
President Trump shuts down all asylum routes to the U.S.
The winter storms causing havoc for holiday travel,
and what really happens to those Black Friday purchases you're returning.
But first, to a Washington Post story that's drawn major scrutiny to the U.S.
military and recent orders by Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth.
As questions grow over the U.S.
strategy in the Caribbean,
the Post reports that Hexeth issued an order back in September to kill all crew members aboard a suspected drug smuggling vessel.
After an initial strike, a drone feed showed two survivors clinging to wreckage.
Then, according to the post, officials carried out another strike to kill them too,
something the administration never publicly acknowledged at the time.
It was the first incident in what's now been a string of U.S.
strikes on boats in the region, which have killed more than 80 people to date.
Alex Horton is a national security reporter at the Washington Post who broke the story with his colleague.
The Joint Special Operations Command Commander Admiral Bradley, with Hegseth's orders in mind,