The United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) announced it has struck a vessel in the Caribbean Sea that belonged to, as it put it, a designated terrorist organization.
The Southern Command did not specify the group in question. It said that the attack was conducted "a lethal kinetic strike." "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," it insisted.
The USSOUTHCOM added that none of its troops were injured, while three "narco-terrorists" were killed.
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) used Anthropic PBC's artificial intelligence (AI) large language model (LLM) Claude during its operation to capture the deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Axios reported.
The outlet said it could not determine exactly what purpose Claude played in Maduro's arrest. However, it pointed out that it was used actively during the operation, not just beforehand. It also noted that the US military had previously used Claude to assess satellite material or intelligence.
Pioneering drug dealers have been openly slinging marijuana from tents on a busy Bronx sidewalk, sparking outrage from locals who called for the city to snuff out the wintry weed teepees.
Video revealing the open-air drug tents – one of which brazenly advertised “Good Weed Deals” on a handwritten menu – went viral on X this week, but nearby business owners said the seedy setups along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard popped up two or three years ago.
A handwritten sign on one tent provided a menu of pot products for sale.NY POST
“The mayor should step in this immediately, nip this in the bud, and this is one of the things he should come up here to The Bronx to look at,” longtime local community advocate Angel Caballero told The Post on Friday.
“Something has to be done and the mayor has to do something to protect our kids,” he said.
New York’s recreational weed rollout was marred by lawsuits and bureaucratic snafus at the state Office of Cannabis Management, all while a slew of illegal marijuana peddlers sprouted up.
The alleged illicit pot peddlers in Morris Heights didn’t take kindly to being smoked out by The Post Friday.
A reporter and photographer spied two tents — one black, one red-orange — on the snowy sidewalk, with orange electrical cords running to nearby poles, presumably to provide power.
The red tent had a hand-scrawled sign on a dry-erase board declaring “Shops Open,” along with prices for pre-rolled joints and baggies up to $100.
But as the journos sniffed around the hot boxes, a masked mope holding a phone aggressively confronted the photographer sitting in a car and demanded to know why he was taking photos.
“Can I see?” the hooligan barked, before trying to snatch the snapper’s phone.
The man approaches a Post reporter and photographer on Friday.
The photographer drove off with the drug dealers’ apparent lookout still knocking on his window.
After the tense confrontation, cops took two people into custody, an NYPD spokesperson said. They didn’t provide more information.
“If they are selling illegal drugs, then cops should shut them down,” a 22-year-old nonprofit worker who grew up in the area said. “You can buy marijuana legally in New York City, so people do not have to buy from them.
“This is a residential area and that is something that children should not be privy to.”
The cannabis canopies have long burned Caballero, executive director of the Davidson Community Center, where the BJT Bronx Commercial District is based.
He said the group has complained to the NYPD’s local 46th Precinct, but the “very aggressive” dealers keep coming back.
“They don’t care. They sell right in front of the kids,” he said. “They are arrested and within 24 hours they are out.”
Caballero said Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark should nip the pot pests in the bud.
Mamdani’s spokesman Matthew Rauschenbach hazily said City Hall is looking into the matter.
A power cable jacked into street lamp post leads to the tent.NY POST
“New Yorkers have many options from which they can safely purchase recreational marijuana, and these tents do not appear to meet the requirements associated with legally selling marijuana,” he said in a statement.
Clark’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment, nor did Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson and local reps Councilwoman Pierina Sanchez, state Assemblywoman Yudelka Tapia and state Sen. Jose Serrano — all Democrats.
The brazen blazing bivouacs reached online infamy this week after a TikTok user documented them in a video emblazoned with “Only in the Bronx” — and featuring one bleary-eyed occupant peering out.
The video went viral among critics of Mamdani, who rolled up the ganja awnings with Democratic socialist’s arguably soft-on-crime stances.
“Drug igloos — another remarkable innovation here in the socialist utopia of New York City,” firebrand conservative Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R-Queens) posted on X.
“Welcome to Mamdani’s New York City! Before you know it the administration will be giving these guys vendors licenses,” said fellow Queens Republican Councilwoman Joann Ariola.
City Council Minority Leader David Carr (R-Staten Island) managed to burn both Mamdani and his progressive predecessor Bill de Blasio.
A protester holds a sign that reads “Honk If You Hate Nazis” with a red “X” over a swastika, during a protest against ICE.The California Post
Shocking footage showed the huge mob swarming around officers who drew their Tasers and pushed them back down the street.
One clip saw a demonstrator wildly swinging a pole at an agent and hitting him at least twice, though it is unclear if it was the federal worker who was injured.
Another showed a cop grappling with a woman before she was wrestled back by the crowd and appeared to flee the scene.
A person wearing a black helmet and tank top holds up a sign that says “F—k Trump” with lipstick print, standing in front of the Edward R. Roybal Center And Federal Building.The California Post
Vandals also damaged property and blocked traffic across the roads around the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building.
It came as high schoolers in Los Angeles descended on the scene as part of a huge walkout on Friday to protest against ICE.
LA’s top federal prosecutor Bill Essayli tore into the protesters and vowed to hunt down and prosecute the perpetrators.
He told the California Post: “The violent attack this afternoon by high school students on federal officers is unacceptable.
A person wearing a bandana and cap holds a protest sign that reads “Honk If You Hate Nazis” with a red X over a swastika symbol.The California Post
“We have video of the suspects, and they will be arrested and charged, regardless of whether they are minors.
“The parents, teachers, unions, and administrators facilitating students ditching school to attack federal personnel bear responsibility and should be ashamed of themselves.
“Imagine how successful our children would be if schools put as much effort into educating them as they do into indoctrinating them.”
A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Fire Department told the Post they transported the injured federal agent to hospital in fair condition at 1.34pm.
The LAPD’s Central Division said in a post on X: “Suspects who attacked the Federal Agents have blended into the March.”
