ABC News' Anne Flaherty reports on what's behind the buildup of Navy troops and their firepower in the region.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a prominent voice on foreign policy and close ally of President Donald Trump, raised the ...

U.S. forces are sinking drug boats off Venezuela and Colombia. A defense expert warns Trump’s new strikes won’t even stop the drug trade.

ABC News' Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz reports on the possible reasons for the deployment of the aircraft carrier to the waters off of Latin America.

The $12.9 billion warship named for former President Gerald R. Ford, who was raised in Grand Rapids, stretches 4.5 acres and ...

Deployment of a carrier group marks a major escalation of U.S. forces in a region that has already seen an unusually large ...

A Pentagon spokesman said Friday that the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group would deploy to the U.S. Southern Command ...

The U.S. is sending an aircraft carrier strike group to the waters off Latin America, dramatically increasing the number of ...

The Pentagon on Friday ordered the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and its strike group to the waters ...

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the ...

The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) in the Strait of Gibraltar on Oct. 1, 2025. Seaman ...