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Trump’s anti-Venezuela actions lack strategy, justifiable targets and legal authorization

“I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. OK? We’re going to kill them. You know, they’re going to be, like, dead,” President Donald Trump said in late October 2025 of U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea north of Venezuela.

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DHS Launches 'Operation River Wall' to Add Boats and Personnel Along Rio Grande Valley

In a statement, DHS said the U.S. Coast Guard will lead the operation, increasing the number of patrol boats, shallow watercraft, command units and tactical response teams throughout the Rio Grande Valley.

Latin Times

Woman dies after Cape Cod boat fire left her stranded on island with family

Patrick Sullivan, who was also injured in the fire, is awake and breathing without help

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Officers in California fire on truck they say tried to back into Coast Guard base

Incident occurred after ICE agents arriving at Alameda base were met by hundreds of protesters

The Guardian - US

Coast Guard audio captures stranded family's mayday call. 'Our ship burned while we were sleeping'

Audio recordings released by the Coast Guard capture the distress of a family who was rescued two days after their boat caught fire and sank, forcing them to swim to a private island

The Independent UK

What to know about Coast Guard Island in California, where federal agents have headed

Federal immigration agents were greeted by protests in the San Francisco Bay Area on their way out to a century-old, government-owned artificial island that houses a U.S. Coast Guard base

The Independent UK

Family rescued after being stranded on remote Massachusetts island for a day after their boat caught fire

A marine radio that washed up on the remote island led to the family’s rescue

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DHS Faces Backlash Over Purchase of Private Jets for Kristi Noem and Top Officials: Report

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Coast Guard are facing criticism after confirming the purchase of two Gulfstream G700 jets for official use by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other senior officials

Latin Times

Kristi Noem gets luxury $172M jets she had asked for prompting questions over where the funding is coming from

It remains unclear where the funding for the jets came from

The Independent UK

Faulty engineering led to 2023 implosion of Titan submersible, NTSB report finds

The catastrophic implosion of the OceanGate "Titan" submersible killed all five people on board as it was diving to explore the wreck of the Titanic.

Euronews

Faulty engineering led to deadly Titan sub implosion, US investigators rule

NTSB report finds OceanGate company did not adequately test submersible before 2023 voyage to wreck of Titanic

The Guardian - US

Faulty engineering led to implosion of Titan submersible headed to Titanic wreckage, NTSB finds

The National Transportation Safety Board says faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic

The Independent UK

DHS taps 'big beautiful bill' funding for Coast Guard paychecks - Roll Call

Announcement comes as 2 million civilian federal workers at other agencies, including many still reporting to work, go without paychecks.

Roll Call

Noem claims to have found an ‘innovative’ solution to pay Coast Guard during shutdown. Nobody knows what it is

Last week, the president ordered to use ‘all available funds’ to ensure the military gets paid during the lapse in funds

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"The House is done": Johnson rules out stand-alone vote on paying troops during shutdown

"We already had that vote. It's called the CR, " Johnson said.

Latin Times

Coast Guard Intercepts Sailboat Carrying Four Migrants In San Diego, Officials Say

Coast Guard officials intercepted a sailboat carrying four migrants in San Diego this weekend, officials said

The Independent UK

More than $156 million of cocaine seized in drug smuggling boats bust

More than $156 million of cocaine has been seized by the Coast Guard in San Diego.

The Independent UK

Hundreds of mysterious containers found floating off Alaskan island as authorities probe where they came from

The Coast Guard recovered mysterious containers with yet-to-be-determined contents along the southern coastline of Montague Island in Alaska

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Latin Times

Coast Guard Unloads Haul With Enough Illegal Drugs 'To Fatally Overdose the Entire Population of the State of Florida'

The U.S. Coast Guard announced it offloaded a record seizure of illegal narcotics at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, totaling 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana, valued at $473 million.

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In an amazing twist, the US Coast Guard busts a record-breaking number of drugs after a ‘lethal’ amount of narcotics ends up off the Florida coast

That's a lot of drugs.

The Independent UK

Coast guard drug bust seizes enough product to ‘overdose Florida’

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The Independent UK

Historic $473M drug haul was enough to overdose ‘entire population of Florida’, say Coast Guard

The drugs were seized from 19 interdictions that occurred between mid-June and mid-August

The Independent UK

The Coast Guard seized a record 76,000 pounds of drugs this summer off Central and South America

The U.S. Coast Guard says it seized a record 76,000 pounds of drugs this summer off Central and South America

The Independent UK

Kristi Noem claims she had to move into rent-free home because the media is hounding her too much

‘The threats were so much that, temporarily, I had to stay somewhere else,’ the DHS chief defended

The Guardian - AU

My husband always dreamed of distant oceans. With a volunteer crew, I gave him a sailor’s farewell

Seven years after John’s cremation, I was ready to set him free – with help from Australia’s Volunteer Coast Guard

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