JUST IN: Trump Admin Declares War
President Donald Trump made history again on Thursday with a declaration of war against North and South American drug cartels, escalating a conflict that until now has taken place beneath the surface of intercontinental diplomacy and remained within anti-trafficking frameworks.In a brief memo sent to Congress, the White House laid out its reasoning for declaring a “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels, which the administration referred to throughout the document as “terrorist organizations.”