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Axios Hill Leaders

The USS Sampson, a U.S. Navy missile destroyer, docks at the Amador International Cruise Terminal in Panama City, Panama, this week. Photo: Daniel Gonzalez / Anadolu via Getty Images

Leaders on the Senate Intel committee are expecting to receive a bipartisan briefingthis weekabout the deadly U.S. strike on a drug vessel off the shore of Venezuela.

  • Why it matters: Lawmakers want more information from the White House on what Trump officials have indicated is just the start of a broader military campaign.

🔦 Democrats were left in the dark on the operation, multiple sources tell us, and they want answers on the legal basis for the strike.

  • Their leaders raised similar concerns following Trump’s airstrikes on Iran in June.
  • U.S. officials said the attack on the ship — which killed 11 members of the Tren de Aragua cartel, according to Trump — targeted drug trafficking. But it’s threaded with the hopes of regime change in Venezuela.

The big picture: Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a member of the Senate Intel panel, told us that stopping drugs from reaching U.S. soil is a “positive thing” but said he has not been officially briefed on the operation.

  • “Donald Trump will be gone at some point, and we should not put our service members in a position that they’re doing things that are outside of legal boundaries,” Kelly said.
  • Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also told us he received no briefing, background or information about the strike: “That is concerning.”

The other side: Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho) told us that as a senior member of the Intel committee, he has been briefed on the strike.

  • Risch declined to provide any details on what that briefing looked like or when it took place, given the classification of such communications.
  • Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), who spent time in South America last month and has family in Colombia, cheered on the strike. “They were bringing drugs that were going to kill Americans, so we killed them first,” he said. “We’re going to be doing a lot more of that.”
  • Moreno said he didn’t think Congress needs to be notified ahead of such strikes.

Zoom out: Trump announced the stunning strike on Tuesday in his militarized war on drugs.

  • The U.S. has been amassing ships off Venezuela’s shores and escalating tensions between the U.S. and the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
  • The administration has labeled Maduro the leader of a drug-trafficking terrorist cartel.

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— Stephen Neukam and Stef Kight

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The USS Sampson, a U.S. Navy missile destroyer
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How UNC Became a Quiet Architect of a Controversial Accreditor

UNC System’s Dan Harrison, Peter Hans, and Andrew Kelly. (Illustration by Wesley Watson for The Chronicle of Higher Education)

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Editor’s Note: Original contains audio.

In July 2024, the UNC System and the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, convened representatives from Florida, Georgia, Iowa, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia to talk about alternatives to the current model for accreditation, documents show.

The UNC System then recommended in a September 2024 report that North Carolina “establish an accreditation agency formed by state university systems.” The report laid out steps that are now the game plan for the new multi-state accreditor.

This spring, Dan Harrison, the UNC System’s vice president for academic affairs, sent a document to system President Peter Hans describing himself and another UNC official, Andrew Kelly, as crucial to shaping how the accreditor would operate. “Currently, we enjoy some free ridership in that Florida is funding the effort, but the group relies on Kelly and Harrison for subject matter expertise,” the document stated. “There have not been major decision points where North Carolina’s preference has not been followed.”

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