The U.S. military on Thursday conducted another strike on a suspected narcotics-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization.
by JESSICA A. BOTELHO | The National News DeskDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington. The U.
S. military on Thursday conducted another deadly strike on a suspected narcotics-trafficking vessel operated by what the Trump administration has classified as a Designated Terrorist Organization. Four suspected drug traffickers were killed in the attack, which marked the 22nd strike under Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. "On Dec. 4, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in international waters operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization," U.S. Southern Command wrote on "Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed," according to the post. The news comes after Trump said the U.S. is poised to accelerate its military attacks on Venezuela's alleged drug-carrying boats by implementing land strikes. "Every boat we knock out, we save 25,000 American lives. If you look at our numbers, the drugs coming in through sea are down 91%," Trump told reporters during an unrelated news conference on Wednesday." "But it's down and we're going to start very soon on land and I’m sure you’re very thrilled to hear that," he added. The president said the U.S. knows every route the alleged drug traffickers use, as well as every house they live in and make narcotics.Trump made similar comments last week, as well as amid a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday after he was asked about the administration's strikes at sea. "You know, the land is much easier," he said. "And we know the routes they take. We know everything about them. We know where they live. We know where the bad ones live. And we're going to start that very soon, too." The president was asked on Wednesday if he would release video of a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea in early September as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is facing bipartisan scrutiny over the operation. “I don’t know what they have, but whatever they have we'd certainly release. No problem,” Trump told reporters. Trump also slammed former President Joe Biden, saying that a slew of illegal criminal immigrants from Venezuela entered the U.S. during Biden's term in office. “Venezuela sends us drugs, but Venezuela sends us people that they shouldn’t be sending,” Trump said. “They emptied their prisons into our country. They sent us killers, murderers. They sent us drug dealers at the highest level. They sent us gang members. They sent us people from their mental institutions -- they emptied their mental institutions into our country. And so did other countries because we had stupid people running this country. Really stupid people. I think probably, you had some stupid ones and some smart ones, but they were bad people, too, because not all of them were stupid. You can’t cheat on elections like they did and be stupid.” Hegseth is under growing scrutiny over the military strikes on alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. Legal experts and some lawmakers said a strike that killed survivors would have violated the laws of armed conflict.A Cache County couple was arrested after their infant child was found dead in her crib nearly nine months ago.Mitchell Murray and his wife, Carrie Murray, , weA 12-year-old girl was killed after she was struck by a car running a red light while crossing the street.The Roosevelt City Police Department said the crash hThe man accused of killing two 18-year-olds in a wrong-way crash was identified as a suspect in a sexual assault reported just minutes before the I-15 incident.TRAX lines were disrupted early Thursday morning after a freight train derailed near the Murray Central UTA station.Gavin Gustafson, a spokesperson for the UtaThe charges against two men accused of lighting a live bomb under a news media vehicle were dismissed.Adeeb Nasir, 58, andAdil Justice Ahme Nasir, 31, were ide
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