U.S. Aircraft Carrier To Be Sent to Caribbean

The Pentagon plans to send the Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, marking a major escalation of the Trump administration's military campaign to target drug smugglers and threaten governments in Latin America.

- BY SHELBY HOLLIDAY AND LARA SELIGMAN

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group, now deployed in the Mediterranean, to the Caribbean, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Friday, bringing dozens more fighter and surveillance aircraft, along