Good morning. Moments in Washington are overly performative. But some others are quite consequential and can change how the government is viewed by voters or even foreign leaders. A closed-door, ...

The U.S. military struck an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean — at the center of a controversy involving Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth — four times during a Sept. 2 attack, according ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday evening made light of the mounting scrutiny he faces over a report that he gave an order to “kill everybody” aboard an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in ...

The U.S. Senate and House Armed Services committees will open bipartisan inquiries into U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-running boats in the Caribbean Sea, with a focus on an alleged follow-on ...

The German S-Boat (Schnellboot) was a product of ingenious engineering designed to exploit a loophole in the Treaty of Versailles. Though built from wood, it became the fastest combat ship in the ...

Hegseth said the strikes were intended to be "lethal, kinetic strikes." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded to a report that he ordered the military to kill all passengers aboard a boat suspected ...

Reach the reporters securely on Signal: Alex Horton at AlexHorton.85 and Ellen Nakashima at Ellen.626. The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence ...

The U.S. military has killed more than 80 people since the campaign began in early September. But it does not know who specifically is being killed. By Julian E. Barnes Julian E. Barnes has been ...

President Donald Trump and his Pentagon chief say U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats in waters off Latin America are saving lives by preventing narcotics from reaching America’s shores. But ...

When the United States began sinking boats on suspicion of drug trafficking – with no warning, no arrests and no evidence recovered – we crossed a line. These so-called narco-terrorist strikes may be ...

Nov. 19 (UPI) --A group of amateur whale watchers off the coast of Washington's Camano Island captured video when a seal jumped onto their boat to escape a pod of killer whales. Photographer Charvet ...