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Death toll from U.S. boat strikes on alleged drug boats climbs after recent survivors not found

Updated on: May 29, 2026 / 6:59 AM EDT / CBS/AP

The death toll from the Trump administration’s monthslong series of strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean has risen to at least 199 people after survivors of recent attacks were not found.

The total includes at least 22 people who had survived an initial strike only to be hit again or die at sea during the campaign that began last September. That includes three people who survived two separate strikes this month, according to the U.S. military, including two people who survived a strike this week in the eastern Pacific.

U.S. Southern Command says it notifies the U.S. Coast Guard of any survivors of such attacks, but those reports largely appear to be passed on to countries closer to the actual strike location.

When asked about any recent search and rescue efforts, Mexico’s navy said it had received an alert from the U.S. Coast Guard about the strikes this month but it did not mention survivors. The U.S. Coast Guard referred requests for more information to Mexico’s authorities.

The strikes have been contentious, with the Trump administration declaring that the U.S. is at war with Latin American drug cartels.

The first attack in the campaign occurred on Sept. 2. In early December, however, the Trump administration came under heavy scrutiny after it confirmed a Washington Post report that in that Sept. 2 attack, the U.S. had conducted a follow-on strike, or “double tap,” that killed two survivors of the initial strike on the vessel.

Some lawmakers questioned whether the follow-on strike constituted a war crime.

The Pentagon’s watchdog said this month that it plans to look into whether the U.S. military followed an established targeting framework when carrying out its strikes. However, the evaluation is focused specifically on what’s known as the six-phase Joint Targeting Cycle and not the legality of the strikes, the inspector general’s office said.

To date, only three people are known to have survived strikes and then been rescued. Two were rescued from a “narco sub” accused of carrying drugs in October and later returned to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia.

In March, the U.S. Coast Guard said it recovered a survivor of a strike that killed two others and transferred the survivor to Costa Rican authorities.

Earlier this year, the families of two Trinidadian men who were killed in a U.S. missile strike on a boat in the Caribbean sued the Trump administration in federal court, arguing the “premeditated and intentional killings lack any plausible legal justification.”

In December, the relatives of 42-year-old Alejandro Carranza Medina filed a complaint against the U.S. with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, saying Medina was not involved in drug trafficking and had been fishing when his boat was destroyed.

美军印太司令提交涉台报告 拟增强对华威慑

2026年5月29日 18:28 / 联合早报

美军印太司令部司令帕帕罗4月提交给美国国会的报告，在对华措辞上比特朗普政府更为强硬，并详细阐述打算如何在亚洲规划特朗普政府大幅增长的国防预算资金。 （路透社档案照片）

（华盛顿彭博电）美国印太司令部司令帕帕罗在提交给国会的报告中说，美军正悄然寻求增强在台湾问题上遏制或对抗中国大陆的能力，包括配备新型反舰导弹和先进水雷。

根据彭博社获得的这份121页文件，帕帕罗称中国人民解放军“正在所有领域进行历史性的扩张，并为两大主要任务做训练，一是强行实现台湾统一，二是对抗美国及其盟友的防御能力；北京的军事准备目标定在2027年”。

报道指出，帕帕罗的报告在对华措辞上比特朗普政府更为强硬，并且重新预测中国解放军武力攻台的可能时间为2027年，即解放军建军100周年。美国今年早些时候的一份情报评估，已不再采纳这一预期。

这份报告日期为4月6日，详细阐述美国军方对特朗普政府创纪录国防预算资金在亚洲的部署计划。帕帕罗敦促国会批准这笔高达1.5万亿美元（约1.9万亿新元）的额外支出，从而“捍卫国土，并挫败中国的错误战略”。

预算申请的关键部分包括5亿9200万美元资金，用于开发、原型制作和采购新型反舰武器“快沉”（Quicksink）。它能够通过在水线以下引爆来击沉舰船，破坏船体龙骨。

报告称，这款新型武器有助于“对抗印太地区数量占优的敌方舰队”，显然指中国。

帕帕罗还提及用于其他武器计划的资金申请，尤其是秘密布雷项目，即在关键区域秘密布设雷区。报告称，这可协助美国“维持对关键水道的主导权”。

除了对华计划外，美国与以色列对伊朗的战争成本也在逐渐升高。美国星期四（5月28日）公布的数据显示，4月国防资本货物订单再次增长，达到222亿美元，已是有记录以来的第二高位。这表明伊朗战争正在推动对军事装备的需求。

美军印太司令提交涉台报告 拟增强对华威慑

2026年5月29日 18:28 / 联合早报

美军印太司令部司令帕帕罗4月提交给美国国会的报告，在对华措辞上比特朗普政府更为强硬，并详细阐述打算如何在亚洲规划特朗普政府大幅增长的国防预算资金。 （路透社档案照片）

美军印太司令部司令帕帕罗4月提交给美国国会的报告，在对华措辞上比特朗普政府更为强硬，并详细阐述打算如何在亚洲规划特朗普政府大幅增长的国防预算资金。 （路透社档案照片）

（华盛顿彭博电）美国印太司令部司令帕帕罗在提交给国会的报告中说，美军正悄然寻求增强在台湾问题上遏制或对抗中国大陆的能力，包括配备新型反舰导弹和先进水雷。

根据彭博社获得的这份121页文件，帕帕罗称中国人民解放军“正在所有领域进行历史性的扩张，并为两大主要任务做训练，一是强行实现台湾统一，二是对抗美国及其盟友的防御能力；北京的军事准备目标定在2027年”。

报道指出，帕帕罗的报告在对华措辞上比特朗普政府更为强硬，并且重新预测中国解放军武力攻台的可能时间为2027年，即解放军建军100周年。美国今年早些时候的一份情报评估，已不再采纳这一预期。

这份报告日期为4月6日，详细阐述美国军方对特朗普政府创纪录国防预算资金在亚洲的部署计划。帕帕罗敦促国会批准这笔高达1.5万亿美元（约1.9万亿新元）的额外支出，从而“捍卫国土，并挫败中国的错误战略”。

预算申请的关键部分包括5亿9200万美元资金，用于开发、原型制作和采购新型反舰武器“快沉”（Quicksink）。它能够通过在水线以下引爆来击沉舰船，破坏船体龙骨。

报告称，这款新型武器有助于“对抗印太地区数量占优的敌方舰队”，显然指中国。

帕帕罗还提及用于其他武器计划的资金申请，尤其是秘密布雷项目，即在关键区域秘密布设雷区。报告称，这可协助美国“维持对关键水道的主导权”。

除了对华计划外，美国与以色列对伊朗的战争成本也在逐渐升高。美国星期四（5月28日）公布的数据显示，4月国防资本货物订单再次增长，达到222亿美元，已是有记录以来的第二高位。这表明伊朗战争正在推动对军事装备的需求。

In California redistricting, pro-MAGA town likely to get a gay, liberal congressman

2026-05-29T10:04:04.361Z / https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/california-redistricting-pro-maga-town-likely-get-gay-liberal-congressman-2026-05-29/

Summary

California redrew districts, favoring Democrats, amid national Republican push for new maps

• Huntington Beach conservatives feel isolated and are skeptical over new congressman
• Robert Garcia, the city’s likely new congressman, pledges cooperation despite ideological clash

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, May 29 (Reuters) – Huntington Beach, the right-leaning California city that banned the Pride flag from City Hall and elected a city council of MAGA supporters, is heavily favored to get a new Democratic congressman ​who is gay, progressive and an outspoken critic of U.S. President Donald Trump.

It’s a result of redrawing congressional districts. A flurry of redistricting was touched off when Trump pushed ‌states, starting with Texas, to come up with voting maps favorable to his Republican Party. With control of the U.S. House of Representatives at stake in November’s elections, heavily Democratic California countered the Texas redistricting, with voters approving a plan that targets five Republican seats.

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“So, two wrongs make a right?” Huntington Beach City Councilman Pat Burns said from his council office, where a bust of Trump that he once placed on the dais at city council meetings now sits on his desk. “It’s just California ​ugly-ass politics, and they are all about their agenda and not about the people. They don’t care about the people of California one bit.”

Huntington Beach counts itself among the cities and towns ​in roughly a dozen U.S. states caught up in the redistricting battle, with political parties reconfiguring voting maps to their advantage in what is known as gerrymandering.

As ⁠a result, voters can suddenly find themselves in a new district – with representation that they say fails to reflect their interests.

A conservative enclave in mostly liberal Southern California, Huntington Beach has set itself on a collision ​course with liberals in the Trump era, defying Democrats in the state capital on issues such as voter identification and housing density. Officially nicknamed Surf City USA, it reflects the individualist and independence-minded aspects of surf ​culture, not the cliché of laid-back free spirits.

At the moment, Huntington Beach, which banned the rainbow Pride flag and other nongovernmental banners from city property after a local voter referendum in 2024, is represented in the House by Representative Dave Min, a Democrat seen as moderate and pragmatic.

Redistricting, however, means that after the November elections the city will most likely be represented by the more progressive Robert Garcia, a 48-year-old gay immigrant, who said in an interview he has “been dealing with homophobia ​my whole life.”

A two-term Democratic U.S. representative, Garcia comes from Long Beach, a city of 450,000 people across the Los Angeles County line from Huntington Beach. Once in different districts, Long Beach and Huntington Beach have ​been coupled together into one district through gerrymandering and will share a representative in the House.

Born in Peru, Garcia came to the U.S. as a child. A former mayor of Long Beach, he was elected to Congress in 2022 ‌and won his ⁠2024 re-election by 36 percentage points. He is heavily favored to finish first in the primary election on June 2 that will test the new districts for the first time, and to prevail in the November general election.

Garcia, a Trump critic, is the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, the congressional watchdog over the executive branch. His stands on issues including immigration, climate and healthcare clash with the MAGA agenda.

“I’ve represented people I don’t agree with on everything, my entire time as mayor, and currently as a member of Congress,” Garcia said. “That’s OK. That’s America.”

‘RULE BY FIAT’

Domnic McGee, a Huntington Beach Planning Commission member and outspoken conservative, sees ​redistricting as part of a broader effort by Democrats ​to consolidate power in California and advance policies ⁠he opposes. McGee said he plans to “fight for traditional American values” and resist “overreach” by the left.

“The Democrats now with redistricting are set to take even more power in California,” McGee said. “They want to rule by fiat.”

Janet Jacobs, who attended a recent city council meeting, is also firmly in the “Make America Great Again” camp.

“Trump is ​doing a hell of a job, and God is on his side,” said Jacobs, who wore a red baseball cap emblazoned with “Make Huntington Beach Great ​Again” and “7-0” on the side, ⁠extolling the 7-0 MAGA majority on the council.

Still, Garcia predicts cooperation rather than confrontation.

“I expect actually there’s going to be a lot of partnerships with the cities, especially communities like Huntington Beach and Newport Beach. While they might have a more conservative council, at the end of the day, they want the same thing that communities in Long Beach want,” Garcia told Reuters.

Garcia flagged one issue he said unites the district: offshore oil drilling. “Whether you’re in ⁠Huntington Beach or ​Newport Beach or Seal Beach, that is a huge concern to everybody here,” Garcia said. He said he would be “much more ​engaged on that issue” given the Trump administration’s moves toward reopening California’s coast to oil production.

Huntington Beach Mayor Casey McKeon also said he expects any representative to do the job professionally. He cited previous Representative Michelle Steel, a Republican who worked with a then-liberal council ​on beach sand replacement.

“She still did what was right for Huntington Beach,” McKeon said. “She didn’t let politics get in the way of that.”

Reporting by Daniel Trotta in Huntington Beach; editing by Donna Bryson and Cynthia Osterman

Nitrogen gas executions are constitutional, federal judge rules

2026-05-29T07:51:36-0400 / CBS News

Montgomery, Ala. — A federal judge ruled on Thursday that execution by nitrogen gas doesn’t violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, rejecting an Alabama inmate’s claim that it causes excessive suffering.

The ruling came after the first bench trial in the country to examine the constitutionality of the execution method that has now been used to put eight people to death, seven in Alabama and one in Louisiana. The ruling clears the way for Alabama and other states to continue with the method and is a setback for critics who hoped a fuller examination of Alabama’s protocol would halt its use.

The execution method, first used in 2024, involves strapping a respirator to the person’s face and replacing breathable air with pure nitrogen gas, causing death from lack of oxygen. The lawsuit challenging the method was filed last year by death row inmate Jeffery Lee. Lee, 58, is scheduled to be executed with nitrogen gas on June 11 at a south Alabama prison.

“While Lee establishes that death by nitrogen hypoxia involves some suffering, he fails to show that the protocol is cruel and unusual in violation of the Eighth Amendment,” U.S. District Judge Emily C. Marks wrote.

Attorneys for the state and Lee disagreed on how long inmates are awake during a nitrogen gas execution. Marks wrote the evidence shows Alabama’s protocol “likely causes severe air hunger -the most severe form of breathing discomfort – for one to three minutes” but did not arise to a constitutional violation.

Lee’s attorneys indicated in court filings that they are appealing the decision.

The Alabama attorney general praised the judge’s decision.

“After the first full trial on nitrogen hypoxia in the entire country, the district court found it to be constitutional. The district court considered all the evidence and concluded that nitrogen hypoxia is not cruel and unusual, affirming that the question of capital punishment belongs to the people and their representatives, not the courts, to resolve,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said.

Inmates executed by nitrogen gas have displayed various levels of shaking during the executions, and lawyers for the state and inmates have disagreed on whether those are involuntary or a sign of suffering. Alabama’s last nitrogen gas execution took more than 30 minutes to complete.

Marks noted that Lee faced a high legal bar because the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to find a state’s method of execution qualifies as cruel and unusual.

Five states have authorized nitrogen gas as an execution method, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, although only two have used it.

Lee was convicted of capital murder for killing Ellis and Thompson on Dec. 12, 1998, near the small town of Orrville, Alabama. Prosecutors said Lee entered a pawn shop with a sawed-off shotgun and fatally shot Jimmy Ellis, the owner of the store, and Elaine Thompson, a store employee.

A jury voted 7-5 that Lee should receive a sentence of life imprisonment. However, a judge overrode that recommendation and sentenced Lee to death. Alabama in 2017 ended the practice of judicial override and no longer allows a judge to disregard a jury’s sentencing decision in death penalty cases.

Lee’s legal team didn’t issue an immediate comment on the decision.

“The real torture of the death penalty is in the decades of waiting. With what we know about each of the available methods of being killed in Alabama or in the U.S., I can’t imagine anyone choosing conscious suffocation,” said Abraham Bonowitz, executive director of Death Penalty Action, a group that opposes the death penalty.

He added that Lee wouldn’t face the death penalty if sentenced today because judicial override has been abolished.

法国与西班牙通胀加速 为欧洲央行加息提供数据支撑

2026年5月29日 18:46 / 联合早报

法国5月份消费者价格指数同比上涨2.8%，涨幅略低于市场预期。图为巴黎附近的布雷蒂尼-奥尔日的一家有机食品杂货店。 （路透社档案照片）

法国和西班牙的通货膨胀率升至2024年以来最高水平，为欧洲央行加息提供进一步理由。

各国星期五（5月29日）发布的数据显示，因战争推动能源成本飙升，法国5月份消费者价格指数同比上涨2.8%，涨幅略低于市场预期；西班牙和意大利的该指数则分别同比上涨3.6%和3.3%，涨幅与预期一致。

彭博社报道，欧元区主要经济体通胀数据将密集公布，将有助于欧洲央行官员判断中东冲突推高通胀的程度，以及是否需要做出应对。

美国总统特朗普对伊朗发动军事行动三个月以来，从鹰派的执行委员会成员伊莎贝尔·施纳贝尔（Isabel Schnabel），到鸽派的首席经济师菲利普·莱恩（Philip Lane），欧洲央行政策制定者在释放信号，称借贷成本很可能需要自2023年以来首次上调。

法国与西班牙通胀加速 为欧洲央行加息提供数据支撑

2026年5月29日 18:46 / 联合早报

法国5月份消费者价格指数同比上涨2.8%，涨幅略低于市场预期。图为巴黎附近的布雷蒂尼-奥尔日的一家有机食品杂货店。 （路透社档案照片）

法国和西班牙的通货膨胀率升至2024年以来最高水平，为欧洲央行加息提供进一步理由。

各国星期五（5月29日）发布的数据显示，因战争推动能源成本飙升，法国5月份消费者价格指数同比上涨2.8%，涨幅略低于市场预期；西班牙和意大利的该指数则分别同比上涨3.6%和3.3%，涨幅与预期一致。

彭博社报道，欧元区主要经济体通胀数据将密集公布，将有助于欧洲央行官员判断中东冲突推高通胀的程度，以及是否需要做出应对。

美国总统特朗普对伊朗发动军事行动三个月以来，从鹰派的执行委员会成员伊莎贝尔·施纳贝尔（Isabel Schnabel），到鸽派的首席经济师菲利普·莱恩（Philip Lane），欧洲央行政策制定者在释放信号，称借贷成本很可能需要自2023年以来首次上调。

网上发电子烟代购广告 女网红被罚款3500元

2026年5月29日 15:34 / 联合早报

女网红黄尤尼斯因在Telegram发布电子烟代购广告，星期五（5月29日）在国家法院被判罚款3500元。 （海峡时报）

女网红黄尤尼斯因在Telegram发布电子烟代购广告，星期五（5月29日）在国家法院被判罚款3500元。 （海峡时报）

本地一名女网红为赚取外快，在Telegram上发布广告出售电子烟，顺利卖出两支电子烟后，又发布代购广告，因此被判罚款3500元。

现年26岁的黄尤尼斯（Eunice Joy Ng）面对一项抵触烟草（广告与销售管制）法令的控状，她星期五（5月29日）在国家法院认罪。

案情显示，被告在2025年11月通过买卖电子烟赚取额外收入。她先在Telegram向一名卖家以每支13元的价格购买五支电子烟，并通过自己的Telegram账号“Galantis99”刊登广告。之后，她顺利以每支15元的价格卖出两支。

为继续招揽生意，她在同年12月通过同个账号发布一则限时动态，并在当中写道：“想让我代购电子烟的人，可以把订单发给我，我会尽量帮你们买。如果需求量大的话，我会再开设谷歌表单。”

卫生科学局接到通报后，展开调查。

控方指出，基于公共健康考量，刑罚须起阻吓作用，促请法官判处4000元罚款。

被告求情时说，这是她第一次被控上庭，认为4000元罚款偏高，恳请法官从轻发落。

国家法院法官郑惠兴下判时说，刑罚在起阻吓效果的同时，也须与犯罪行为相称。考虑到被告为牟利曾出售两支电子烟，最终判处她罚款3500元。

据早前报道，被告的网名为“美人鱼女孩”（Mermaid Girl），她的Telegram频道约有3200名关注者。

根据相关法令，发布有关电子烟的广告一旦罪成，可被判不超过六个月监禁、最高1万元罚款，或两者兼施。（人名译音）

中国国务委员谌贻琴（右一）本周在山东调研就业工作。 （央视新闻截图）

中国国务委员谌贻琴本周在山东调研就业工作时表示，当前就业形势总体稳定，要持续强化就业优先导向，做好高校毕业生等青年群体就业政策支持和服务保障，加强农民工、就业困难人员精准帮扶。

据新华社报道，谌贻琴星期二至星期四（5月26日至28日）到山东调研三天，期间先后到访济南市、淄博市，深入企业、社区、就业服务机构、大学生创新创业孵化基地和招聘活动现场等，调研重点行业用工、基层就业创业服务、重点群体就业帮扶、职业技能提升培训等情况。

谌贻琴强调要深入学习贯彻中共总书记习近平重要指示精神，认真落实党中央、国务院决策部署，牢固树立和践行正确政绩观，坚定不移实施就业优先战略，强化服务支撑，以更大力度、更实举措稳就业、促就业。

谌贻琴指出，就业是最大的民生。当前就业形势总体稳定，要持续强化就业优先导向，加快推进稳岗扩容提质行动，有效激发创业带动就业效能，不断推动高质量充分就业取得新进展。

她要求织密就业服务网络，加强地方经验总结推广，推动“15分钟就业服务圈”与“一刻钟便民生活圈”融合，支持社区“微就业”、“微创业”，加强数智就业服务，帮助劳动者在家门口好就业、就好业。

谌贻琴还要求做好高校毕业生等青年群体就业政策支持和服务保障，加强农民工、就业困难人员精准帮扶，不断增进民生福祉。

中国国家统计局星期三（5月20日）公布的分年龄组劳动力调查失业率数据显示，4月不包含在校生的16岁至24岁劳动力失业率为16.3%，较上月下降0.6个百分点，但仍高于上年同期的15.8%。

不包含在校生的25岁至29岁劳动力失业率为7.4%，较上月也下降0.3个百分点。30岁至59岁劳动力失业率为4.2%，较上月下降0.1个百分点。

谌贻琴在山东还要求深化大规模职业技能提升培训，强化产教评、订单式、项目制培训模式，进一步提升培训的针对性和有效性，支持劳动者提技增收，更好服务经济社会发展大局。

马来西亚首相安华领导的人民公正党再次面临党分裂，分析认为，这将削弱公正党赢得来届大选的机会，令安华连任首相的前景晦暗不明。 （档案照片）

（吉隆坡综合讯）马来西亚联合执政党人民公正党否认出现退党潮，强调自本月中前署理主席拉菲兹宣布接管同心党以来，退出公正党的人数不到1000人。

网媒“自由今日大马”报道，公正党总秘书傅芝雅星期四（5月28日）受询时说，公正党的线上党员管理平台“Adil”（马来文“公平公正”之意）应用，并未记录到拉菲兹5月17日加入同心党之后，出现明显增加的退党申请。

她说：“截至目前，公正党并没有出现大量党员转投同心党的情况。”

拉菲兹与公正党前副主席聂纳兹米一起退出公正党及接管同心党后，公正党内不少人，主要是地方中层和基层领袖及党员陆续宣布跟随拉菲兹退党，转投同心党。

其中，柔佛州公正党10多名基层领袖上周宣布集体退党，并称还有2800名柔佛公正党党员将加入同心党。

柔佛公正党巴西古当区国会议员哈山卡林直言，公正党正经历“大出血”，若不及时处理，或将走向“死亡”。

他周四在脸书发文呼吁首相及公正党主席安华及其他党领导层，尽快介入处理，采取“止血”措施，以在来届大选前挺过这次党内叛变的考验。

他说，虽然公正党的未来难以预测，但目前距离大选仍有充足时间准备。“如果公正党能大胜，安华将再次被推举为首相。反之，整个领导层必须自我反省。”

长期观察东南亚政治的诺丁汉大学马国分校政治学者碧莉洁（Bridget Welsh）告诉路透社，内部分裂将削弱公正党赢得大选的机会，令安华连任首相的前景晦暗不明。

她说：“公众对安华如何管理公正党的看法也很重要，党内部问题会（对安华）带来负面影响。”