Hegseth said the effort, led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and U.S. Southern Command, is intended to “defend the homeland” and remove criminal networks from the region.

Amid the administration’s refusal to tap contingency funds to sustain the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — and with two federal judges now ordering it to do so — President Donald Trump came under fire Friday for claiming that most SNAP recipients are Democrats.

Some analysts have claimed Trump's attacks on alleged smugglers are a pretext for an attempt to oust Maduro, who Trump called a 'narco-terrorist.'

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he would be willing to launch military strikes against cartel targets in Mexico, just days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that the U.S. wouldn't be undertaking any unilateral actions in Mexico.

Trump administration officials are considering sending special forces to Venezuela to try to catch or kill authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro as the U.S. continues its military pressure campaign on the South American country,

The US strikes against suspected drug vessels in the Caribbean and off the Pacific coasts of Latin America have killed dozens of people, whom President Donald Trump's administration calls drug-trafficking terrorists.

President Donald Trump was briefed this week on options for military operations inside Venezuela as he continues to mull a path forward in the country, four sources told CNN.

After Trump signs the Epstein files bill, the Justice Department has 30 days to publicize "all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials" from the investigation into the disgraced financier and indicted sex trafficker who died by suicide in 2019, according to the legislation.

The United States President Donald Trump declared on Monday that he is "not happy" with Mexico's efforts to combat drug trafficking.