NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. military carried out a lethal strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Friday, killing two alleged narco-terrorists, according to U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM).”On May 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” SOUTHCOM said in a post on X.”Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” the post continued. “Two male narco-terrorists were…

More than two decades after Congress declared “zero tolerance” for prison rape, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows just how far the federal prison system still has to go.The findings are sobering. Thousands of allegations. Systemic blind spots. Oversight tools that may be measuring compliance without…

The IRS hasn’t been this operationally aggressive in years. The infusion of funding and headcount directed at enforcement—particularly at partnerships, high-income individuals, and digital asset transactions—means that the risk calculus for common tax filing shortcuts has changed. For small business owners, gig workers, and anyone with meaningful crypto activity, the…

President Donald Trump said last week that the U.S. was withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany. The announcement was seen in the context of critical remarks by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz concerning the war in Iran, specifically the comment that the country’s negotiators had “humiliated” the United States.However, looking at the…

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