WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military has carried out another lethal strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Saturday. Hegseth in a social media posting said the vessel was operated by a U.S.-designated terrorist organization but did not name which group was targeted. He said…
Twenty members of a gang designated a “foreign terrorist organization” by the United States have escaped from detention in Guatemala, a prison chief said Sunday. The members of the Barrio 18 gang “evaded security controls” at the Fraijanes II facility, prison director Ludin Godinez said at a news conference. He received “an intelligence report” Friday…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday he ordered a fourth strike on a small boat in the waters off Venezuela, according to a social media post. “Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike,” which “was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is closing a task force that took on drug cartels and an office that aimed to ease racial tensions, in a reorganization that drops a plan to merge the nation’s top drug and gun law enforcement agencies, documents seen by Reuters show. The most sweeping…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military strike on what the Trump administration says was a drug-carrying speedboat from Venezuela came after the vessel had turned around and was heading back to shore, raising fresh questions as members of Congress are demanding more information about the provocative attack. National security officials acknowledged during a closed briefing…
More than 600 people were arrested in a weeklong series of operations targeting the Sinaloa drug cartel, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced on Monday. The operations took place between Aug. 25 and Aug. 29, according to the DEA. During that timespan, DEA agents in 23 field divisions in the U.S., and seven “foreign regions,” carried…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela. The president offered scant details on the operation. “When you leave the room, you’ll see that we just, over the last few minutes, literally, shot a boat…
The United States is deploying three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela as part of President Trump’s effort to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels, a White House official confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday, confirming a report by the Reuters news agency. The USS Gravely, the USS Jason Dunham and the…
Mexico sent 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States Tuesday in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as American authorities ratchet up pressure on criminal networks smuggling drugs across the border. Those handed over to U.S. custody include Abigael González Valencia, a leader of “Los Cuinis,” a group closely aligned with notorious…
The ongoing US-China trade talks have placed fentanyl—a deadly synthetic opioid—at the heart of economic diplomacy, underscoring how a public health emergency has become a central bargaining chip in global commerce. The Trump administration has repeatedly accused China of enabling the flow of fentanyl and its chemical precursors into the United States, leading to a…