Dan Schwartzman

The U.S.

military announcing on Friday that it destroyed another boat killing three people, it says, were trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The latest attack raises the death toll from these types of strikes on alleged drug vessels to at least 148 people since early September.

The practice of destroying alleged drug boats while killing those aboard have critics questioning the legality of such a move.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to shrink its detention facility network, and that could mean a hit to private prison operators, as we hear from Bloomberg's Nathan Hager in Washington.

Just as parts of the Northeast, including New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, are finally seeing all the snow from the previous storm melt due to recent warm weather, the U.S.

National Weather Service has warned of a possible late-weekend storm.

Paramount says it's one step closer to getting cleared to take over Warner Bros.

Discovery.

Bloomberg's Monica Ricks with details.

Norway continues to lead the overall medal count at the Milan Cortina Olympics with 37, with the U.S.

in second place with 29.

Norway also with a record 17 gold medals, the U.S.

winning 10.

The U.S.

and Canada will battle in the men's hockey gold medal game Sunday.

The U.S.

women knocking off the Canadians 2-1 in an overtime thriller for gold on Thursday.

That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now.

I'm Dan Schwartzman and this is Bloomberg.