The Pentagon has deployed a U.S. Navy destroyer to the Gulf Coast near the Texas-Mexico border, making good on a promise Vice President J.D. Vance made two weeks ago in Eagle Pass to ramp up the nation’s military presence to help combat Mexican drug cartels.

US military strikes on the Yemen-based Houthi militants will be “unrelenting” until the group stops shooting at civilian and military vessels in the Red Sea, the Pentagon chief said.

Yemen's Huthis said on Tuesday they carried out their third attack on American warships in 48 hours, following US strikes on the Iran-backed rebels that sparked mass protests in areas