U.S. deploying fighter jets to Puerto Rico U.S. deploying 10 fighter jets to Puerto Rico in drug cartel crackdown 06:51 The U.S. is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to the Caribbean for operations targeting drug cartels, a source familiar with the plans confirmed Friday. Tensions with Venezuela have been rising over the drug trade and
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Sept. 4, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Participants in a federally funded children’s vaccination program nationwide must honor religious and conscience exemptions from vaccine mandates, according to a Sept. 4 letter from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil
11:35 AM Pentagon sending F-35 fighter jets to Caribbean amid tensions with Venezuela The Pentagon is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to the Caribbean as tensions with Venezuela rise over the drug trade and the strike on narco-terrorists, a person familiar with the plans tells CBS News. Reuters first reported the U.S. deployment of
In a large-scale immigration enforcement sweep at a Hyundai facility in Georgia on Thursday, 475 immigrants suspected of living and working in the U.S. illegally were detained, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told CBS News. The operation involved law enforcement agents from multiple federal agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the Border
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Feb. 16, 2024. David Dee Delgado/Reuters New York Attorney General Letitia James filed an appeal on Sept. 4 of a court ruling that threw out an estimated $500 million penalty in President Donald Trump’s business
The Trump administration is expected to issue an executive order as early as Friday establishing a designation for state sponsors of wrongful detention, CBS News has learned, in a move that would allow the U.S. to punish countries that illegally detain U.S. nationals or take them hostage. The effort is aimed at curbing the number
The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to accommodate roughly 250 federal agents and 140 vehicles at a military base in Illinois ahead of an expected increase in immigration roundups in the Chicago area, according to an internal government memo obtained by CBS News. In a request for assistance to the Department of Defense,