As the first Cabinet member to speak, Hegseth doubled down on the Pentagon targeting alleged drug boats, including in the case of the boat that the White House has acknowledged was struck twice. “As I’ve said and will say again, we’ve only just begun striking narco-boats and putting narco-terrorists at the bottom of the ocean,”
A former Honduran president convicted of helping to smuggle 400 tons of cocaine into the United States has left prison after being pardoned by President Donald Trump, his wife said Tuesday. Juan Orlando Hernandez was released from a West Virginia prison on Monday and was “once again a free man,” his wife announced on social media.
The Canadian publishing house behind the “Franklin” children’s books appeared to condemn Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Monday, after the top military official posted a cartoon image of the famous anthropomorphic turtle blowing up an apparent drug boat. Hegseth’s post — which shows Franklin shooting a rocket-propelled grenade from a helicopter, with the faux
Washington — President Trump on Monday afternoon was expected to confer with his top deputies on the next steps for U.S. operations in Venezuela, according to a senior military official and two sources familiar with the upcoming White House meeting. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were scheduled to attend what
The U.S. military’s early September strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat — the first salvo in a months-long string of attacks — has drawn new scrutiny in recent days, as the White House confirmed that the vessel was struck twice. The confirmation followed a Washington Post report that the first boat was struck a
The White House said that a U.S. attack on an alleged drug boat in September included more than one strike on the vessel, seemingly confirming a Washington Post report that the U.S. targeted the boat for a second time to take out survivors of the initial attack. Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta discussed the strikes
The Trump administration is looking into whether Minnesota tax money found its way to al Shabaab, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization and al Qaeda affiliate based in Somalia, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday. Bessent wrote on X that the Treasury is “investigating allegations that under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor