JUST IN: Trump Admin Declares War

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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.”