James LaPorta is a national security coordinating producer in CBS News' Washington bureau. He is a former U.S. Marine infantryman and veteran of the Afghanistan war. The U.S. military's early ...

Several Democratic lawmakers said they were “disturbed” by what they saw in a classified briefing Thursday on a U.S. airstrike that reportedly targeted survivors of an alleged drug-trafficking boat in ...

In early September, the day after the first strike of the Trump Administration’s bombing campaign against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared on ...

The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs. Defense ...

PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) — There will be no American boat in the America's Cup for the first time in the event's 175-year history. The team representing the New York Yacht Club announced Tuesday that ...