Overview

• President Trump released strike footage as officials said a U.S. Navy missile destroyed a suspected go‑fast drug boat off Venezuela, killing 11 whom the administration linked to Tren de Aragua, with other details kept classified.
• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said similar operations will continue and warned that traffickers tied to designated groups could meet the same fate.
• A senior official said internal constraints were loosened, claimed the National Security Council has “taken out nearly 100 terrorists,” and described weekly strikes that are not publicly disclosed.
• The Pentagon has shifted ships and aircraft toward the southern Caribbean, including multiple destroyers and a cruiser, with officials indicating additional amphibious assets are part of the broader counternarcotics posture.
• Venezuela denounced the U.S. deployment and mobilized forces, Colombia’s president and human-rights advocates criticized the killings, and Sen. Rand Paul questioned the legal authority absent a congressional war declaration.