President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has "hit" a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela. But the U.S. offered few details. Trump initially seemed to confirm a strike in what appeared to be an impromptu radio interview Friday. When questioned Monday by reporters about "an explosion in Venezuela," the president said the U.S. struck a facility where boats accused of carrying drugs "load up." Trump declined to say if the military or CIA was involved or where it occurred. He didn't confirm it happened in Venezuela. The White House and Venezuela's government did not immediately respond to a request for more details or comment.

Legal experts say U.S. strikes against alleged members of Latin American drug cartels are pushing the bounds of international law. Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. military has struck several boats, killing 28 people, after authorities received information suggesting they were carrying drugs. Trump's administration is justifying this use of force by relying on a legal framework created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. That framework allowed authorities to use lethal force against al-Qaida combatants responsible for the attacks on the U.S. The gangs now being targeted in Latin America, however, are a different foe, fueled not by anti-U.S. ideology but by the drug trade.

President Donald Trump has confirmed that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela. The president on Wednesday also said he's considering land operations following recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats from Venezuela. Trump told reporters at an Oval Office event that he had authorized the move because Venezuela is allowing criminals and drugs to flow into the U.S. On Wednesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro lashed out at the record of the U.S. spy agency in various conflicts around the world without directly addressing Trump's comments about authorizing the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela.

The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The documents released Thursday reveal Kennedy met with the CIA to share his observations following a 1955 trip to the Soviet Union. The Democrat shared details of economic and political life in the USSR, information of high value to the agency during the Cold War. The material shows the CIA's efforts to investigate whether Kennedy's killer had ties to a foreign power and how his death was received overseas. Kennedy was shot June 5, 1968, at a Los Angeles hotel after a speech celebrating his victory in California's presidential primary.