This article was originally published by Kevin Hughes at Natural News under the title: Trump Administration Escalates War on Drugs With Lethal Maritime Strikes, Signals Imminent Land Operations The Trump administration has intensified lethal naval operations near Venezuela, conducting at least nine strikes since September against suspected drug-trafficking vessels, resulting in 37 fatalities. President Donald Trump announced plans for expanded “hard” land-based strikes against cartels, following naval interdictions that reportedly reduced drug flows by 33%. Mexican cartels like MS-13 have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations to justify military action. Critics, including Colombian President Gustavo Petro and U.S. lawmakers, challenge the legality of unilateral strikes and the lack of evidence linking Venezuela’s captured ex-leader Nicolás Maduro directly to cartels. Mexico and others oppose U.S. military intervention on sovereignty grounds. The campaign accelerated after Maduro’s January extradition to the U.S. on drug charges, alongside seizures of Venezuelan oil tankers. War Secretary Pete Hegseth framed the strategy as an unprecedented “offensive” against hemispheric narco-terrorism. Future land strikes risk inflaming regional tensions, with unanswered questions about congressional authorization, Latin American backlash, and the evidentiary basis for linking Maduro to cartel operations. The Trump administration has intensified its counter-narcotics campaign in Latin America, launching…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jelly Roll is not a big fan of magic.At Netflix’s “Star Search” series finale on Tuesday night, magician TJ Salta won the big $500,000 prize. After Salta was crowned the winner, Jelly Roll — who is a judge on the competition show — explained that he is terrified of magicians.Fox News Digital was interviewing comedian Anthony Anderson when Jelly Roll approached him on the red carpet. “We were just talking about how you’re definitely afraid of magicians and magic, but now you’re in love with it,” Anderson told the country music star. “Listen, I did not like magic at the beginning of this thing,” Jelly Roll said before sharing he now would personally buy tickets to see Salta perform again.JELLY ROLL’S EX-FLING WAITED IN ‘HOTEL DOWN THE STREET’ DURING MARRIAGE CRISIS, BUNNIE XO SAYS WATCH: Jelly Roll reveals the one thing that ‘still makes my skin crawl’”I mean, I don’t know if afraid is the right word as much as just creeped out. Just creepy. You know, just weird. And that still makes my skin crawl, but I’d buy tickets,” Jelly Roll said. LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT…

The U.S. Air Force’s troubled Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program faces significant risks from software delays and an extended reliance on the aging Minuteman III system. However, a January 2024 Nunn-McCurdy breach has opened a window to address longstanding issues and potentially improve outcomes, according to a Government Accountability Office snapshot released Feb. 18. The report highlights the challenges in replacing the 50-year-old Minuteman III, a cornerstone of the land-based leg of the U.S. nuclear triad, with the more advanced Sentinel system. The program, led by Northrop Grumman, is described as the Air Force’s most complex infrastructure endeavor ever, involving the replacement of more than 600 facilities across five states, including missile silos and command centers. The Sentinel program encountered a critical setback in 2024, when it triggered a Nunn-McCurdy unit cost breach, exceeding statutory thresholds for cost growth on major defense acquisitions. This led the under secretary of defense for Acquisition and Sustainment to rescind Milestone B approval and associated baselines, forcing a restructuring effort as the service works toward a new Milestone B decision. The program’s estimated cost is now at least $141 billion, though actual figures remain uncertain. The first Sentinel flight has slipped approximately four years…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly been holding secret talks with the grandson of Raul Castro, the former President of Cuba. The talks between Rubio and Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro are bypassing official Cuban government channels, Axios reported. “Our position — the U.S. government’s position — is the regime has to go,” a senior official told the news outlet. “But what exactly that looks like is up to [President Trump] and he has yet to decide. Rubio is still in talks with the grandson.”TRUMP SAYS CUBA IS ‘READY TO FALL’ AFTER CAPTURE OF VENEZUELA’S MADURO “I wouldn’t call these ‘negotiations’ as much as ‘discussions’ about the future,” the official added.Earlier this month, Cuban despot Miguel Díaz-Canel warned his country is “close to failing” as the U.S. shuts off commercial valves vital to its survival, such as fuel and food, followed by nearly 70 years of one-party communist rule.Cuba’s power grid is failing, hospitals are short of necessary supplies and garbage has piled up on the streets. MADURO AND ‘LADY MACBETH’ CILIA FLORES MARRIAGE SPELLS ‘WORST CASE’ CUSTODY SCENARIO  The Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on the communist-run island in recent weeks, following the…

SAN DIEGO — The chief officer of the Navy sat down with reporters last week for a media roundtable to explain how his recently released warfighting instructions apply to the service’s rank and file and impact the implementation of autonomous systems. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle expounded at WEST Conference in San Diego, California, on several aspects of his Feb. 9 directive, dubbed “Fighting Instructions,” which call on the service and its commanders to deploy smaller military assets to areas instead of larger aircraft carriers in order to provide more flexibility and speed to respond to conflicts, among other initiatives.“I’m trying to write a document that’s enduring and lays out a framework that can be generally applied to how we think about the flow of generation and certification of naval forces,” Caudle told reporters Feb. 10.Though the instructions address how commanders and leadership can help implement the new strategy, its success requires the totality of the service, including the service’s rank and file, to understand its goals and see how they fit in the “fabric” of the instructions, Caudle said during the roundtable.The new thought process isn’t just for the big force package level; it also applies to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! TUCSON, Ariz. – Advanced DNA testing which combines crime scene DNA analysis and information from commercial genealogy databases could take weeks or months to process after the DNA found on a glove near Nancy Guthrie’s home didn’t produce a match in an FBI database, according to an expert. During an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said that DNA recovered from Guthrie’s home, as well as a glove found near the house, wasn’t a match for any records found in the FBI database known as the Combined DNA Index System. An FBI official told Fox News Digital that investigative genetic genealogy is underway in the Guthrie investigation.Guthrie was forcibly taken from her Tucson, Arizona home in the early morning hours of February 1 and didn’t leave on her own, Nanos said previously. She is still missing.Retired FBI special agent Jason Pack told Fox News Digital that Investigative genetic genealogy is a technique used by the FBI that “combines DNA analysis from crime scenes with searching publicly available commercial genealogy databases and old-fashioned genealogy research.”BURGLARY THEORY IN MISSING GUTHRIE CASE ‘RIDICULOUSLY RARE’ SAYS LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCE The technique is…

When a service member goes missing, the first hours can determine whether they are found safely — or not at all. But a new watchdog report found that unclear timelines and inconsistent processes across the services could delay lifesaving responses when time is critical. The Government Accountability Office said in a report released last week that the Navy and Air Force lack clearly-defined timelines for response steps when service members are nowhere to be found. The Marine Corps has yet to update formal guidance despite a prior recommendation from the watchdog in 2022. The office found that Navy and Air Force leadership do not consistently spell out when commanders must notify civilian law enforcement or family members when a service member goes missing. The report warned that the lack of defined procedures and responses can vary across bases and commands, creating confusion during situations that may already be frantic.“The guidance provided by each service outlines response time frames with varying levels of specificity, resulting in different interpretations among officials regarding how quickly certain actions should be initiated,” the report said. It also found that officials from the Army, Navy and Air Force often connected absences to mental health concerns, including…

Boker whipped up something special for stiletto-heads this, with the incoming – although none-too-creatively-titled – Stiletto 3.5, an homage to historical examples of the form produced with modern materials chosen from the Boker Plus suite. You might think that, given the name, the Stiletto 3.5 has a blade length of 3.5 inches – but that isn’t so. According to the official spec sheet, its blade length is 3.15 inches, but makers measure blade length from different starting points so the name could refer to the blade’s overall size, including the non-edged portions. Either way, the functional designation remains the same – full-size everyday carry – and the steel suits the function: it’s 14C28N, an all-purpose, budget-friendly stainless. Button lock is present and accounted for This is a spring-assisted knife, deployed via a button (which also plays into the lock mechanism), and while the Stiletto 3.5 has the symmetrical dagger look of the old-timey stilettos, it does in fact have only one live edge. Topside there is a false edge/swedge, but it ain’t going to do any cutting. In terms of geometry, the narrow dagger-style blade has exceptional piercing capability, but can certainly do some slicing when the need arises. The…

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) says that the Epstein files may contain “crimes against humanity.” We would say that it is almost a certainty that those files contain these violations. The UNHRC released a statement in response to the millions of files released by the United States ruling class related to criminal investigations into the late financier, Jeffrey Epstein. The UNHRC also demanded that all perpetrators be prosecuted no matter The Obama Administration’s Prostitution Scandal And The Ruemmler-Epstein Connection The Clintons Will Testify In Epstein Probe The Epstein files reveal instances of “sexual slavery, reproductive violence, enforced disappearance, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, and femicide,” reads the document penned by a group of independent experts and published on Monday. “So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities… that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,” it states. Epstein, who, according to the authorities, died by suicide in jail in 2019, moved in circles that included figures from politics, entertainment, and business. He faced criminal investigations in the US over allegations that he operated a system to recruit and sexually exploit young girls. While Epstein associate Ghislaine…