Quill Lawrence

The Biden administration appealed, but the vets won again in the 9th U.S.

Circuit last year.

Now the Trump administration is appealing that ruling.

Mark Rosenbaum is a lawyer for the plaintiffs.

The Departments of Justice and VA declined to comment.

Quill Lawrence, NPR News.

Southcom posted a grainy video on social media showing a small boat that explodes into flames.

The video is edited so the boat's cargo is blacked out.

The U.S.

military has now killed at least 128 people suspected of smuggling drugs in the Pacific and Caribbean since September, including shipwrecked survivors who were killed or left to drown.

This week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claimed without evidence that top cartel drug traffickers have decided to cease all narcotics operations due to this tactic.

But NPR has reported that during the last three months of 2025, cocaine seizures at the U.S.-Mexican border were up 34 percent from the previous year, according to U.S.

Customs and Border Protection data.

Quill Lawrence, NPR News.

Southcom posted a grainy video on social media showing a small boat that explodes into flames.

The video is edited so the boat's cargo is blacked out.

The U.S.

military has now killed at least 128 people suspected of smuggling drugs in the Pacific and Caribbean since September, including shipwrecked survivors who were killed or left to drown.

This week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claimed without evidence that top cartel drug traffickers have decided to cease all narcotics operations due to this tactic.

But NPR has reported that during the last three months of 2025, cocaine seizures at the U.S.-Mexican border were up 34 percent from the previous year, according to U.S.