The judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea.

The litany of grave abuses committed under the banner of a “war on terrorism” is grim and familiar. It need not continue.

The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.

American courts and the War on Terror.

An ACLU attorney argues that the Trump administration’s boat strikes off the Venezuelan coast are illegal, immoral, and ineffective, citing the deaths of Trinidadian nationals Chad Joseph and…

GENEVA – UN experts* today demanded an end to unlawful killings by the United States of America, after at least 223 deaths at sea were recorded from US air strikes in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific...

The United States has killed at least 223 people since its campaign of boat strikes began nearly a year ago.

A surveillance plane flew from El Salvador toward the fishing boats before drones attacked, flight data shows.

Since September, the Trump administration has murdered nearly 90 people in international waters, ordering over 20 lethal strikes on civilian boats near Venezuela. Congress must conduct oversight and c...

CNN’s Jake Tapper reports on The Lead.

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following “a careful...

The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.

The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.

The legislative proposal would allow the defense secretary to withhold "controlled unclassified information," potentially curbing public access to a wide range of defense records.

Boat strike victims’ family attorney Jeff Stein joins The Lead.

On Saturday,  New York Times  columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote an essay condemning the "Save Our Bacon Act," which passed the House and is ...

Una investigación que busca revelar quiénes son las víctimas y cuáles han sido los efectos colaterales de los bombardeos de Estados Unidos a supuestas narcolanchas en el Caribe y el Océano Pacífico de...

The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

Two people were killed in the latest U.S. military strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific said to be involved in drug smuggling, U.S.

Iranian authorities said at least 168 people, many of them children, were killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab.

Relatives of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. airstrike last year are suing over what they call extrajudicial killings. It's the first such case to land in an American courthouse.

The US military struck three alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean on Monday night, killing all 11 people on board, US Southern Command said Tuesday.

The US military conducted a strike against another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing two people, according to US Southern Command.

On October 14, 2025, the United States military carried out an illegal missile strike that killed Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, two Trinidadian men who were traveling by boat from Venezuela to their ...

The suit by the families of two slain Trinidadians is the first legal challenge to the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling boats coming from Latin America.

83% of voters say they want the Trump admin to publicly release info about its extrajudicial bombings in the Caribbean, according to an ACLU/YouGov poll. Nearly 7 in 10 say the admin has not provided evidence to justify its killing of at least 114 people.

According to an ACLU/YouGov poll fielded in mid-December, 84 percent of voters agree that Americans have a right to know more about their government and...