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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to move to the Caribbean to support President Donald Trump’s campaign to “dismantle transnational criminal organizations” and “counter narco-terrorism,” the Pentagon said Saturday. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced the move on X, saying the carrier’s deployment will …

President Donald Trump has formally determined that the United States is now engaged in an “armed conflict” with international drug cartels, a sweeping and legally fraught move that expands military operations against narcotics traffickers, according to a confidential memo sent to Congress and obtained by ABC News. The classified notice, …