US strikes drug trafficking boat in Pacific, two killed — Pentagon

SOUTHCOM killed two people on a vessel in the eastern Pacific that the Pentagon says was 'transiting along known narco-trafficking routes' — the latest in a Trump campaign of lethal strikes on suspected drug boats since September that has now killed dozens without trial, charge, or evidence shown. The angle: extrajudicial killing has become routine US military doctrine in Latin American waters with no congressional authorization and no accountability mechanism. Lead with the body count and the legal vacuum — not the Pentagon's framing.