Life aboard a German U-boat in World War II was brutal, claustrophobic, and deadly. Follow Hans Fischer, a young mechanic ...

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Officials initially weighed sending survivors of U.S. attacks on boats suspected of drug smuggling to a notorious prison in El Salvador, to keep them away from American courts. Officials initially ...

Nicolas Maduro and his wife are expected to face federal charges related to drug trafficking and working with gangs ...

During World War II, German submarines penetrated deep into Canadian waters, sinking merchant ships, attacking ferries, and landing spies along the Saint Lawrence River. Canada’s navy was small, ...

The 52nd annual La Posada Boat Parade is set to illuminate the waters tonight, and this year's Grand Marshal Dale Rankin is already planning his position aboard the lead vessel. Rankin, who has judged ...

The Pentagon was in a bind. The military had plucked two survivors from the Caribbean Sea in mid-October after striking a boat that U.S. officials said was carrying drugs, and it needed to figure out ...

All the strikes in recent weeks have taken place in the Pacific, reflecting Colombia’s role in the drug trade and the feuding between Bogotá and Washington. By Simon Romero Reporting from Bogotá, ...

The Navy suspected sabotage. German U-boats had sunk 120 American merchant ships in the first three months after Pearl Harbor ...

The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny over the boat strikes is intensifying in ...

WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explains how a strike on a drug boat in September grew into a controversy rocking Washington. Photo: Department of Defense The U.S. military said it carried out strikes on three ...

Washington – The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny over the boat strikes is ...