The U.S. ups the ante in its Caribbean war on drug cartels, an infamous Chinese hacker group

gets more aggressive, and fentanyl is becoming more common on random workplace drug tests.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley. It's Friday, September 5th,

and this is Evening Wire.

The U.S. is sending 10 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to beef up its war on drug cartels.

Sources told the New York Post this morning that 10 F-35 jets are scheduled to arrive next week,

their mission to support anti-cartel operations in the Caribbean. While the administration hasn't commented yet, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday that the U.S. will be providing

Ecuador with $13.5 million to boost its security and anti-drug capabilities and $6 million

in UAVs for its Navy. Here's Rubio yesterday. We're ready to support, and this,

what is, frankly, it's a war. It's a war on killers. It's a war on terrorists. These are not

narco-traffickers. These are narco-terrorists. Two Venezuelan aircraft flew too close for comfort

to a U.S. Navy ship yesterday. The American vessel was in international waters. The Department of

Defense called the incident highly provocative and issued a warning on X, saying, quote,

the cartel running Venezuela is strongly advised not to continue any effort to obstruct, deter, or

interfere with counter-narcotics and counterterror operations carried out by the U.S. military.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth commented on the now infamous cartel boat strike this morning.

We smoked a drug boat, and there's 11 narco-terrorists at the bottom of the ocean.

And when other people try to do that, they're going to meet the same fate.

President Trump is bringing back the Department of War.

The president is signing an executive order resurrecting the previous name of the Department of War. The president is signing an executive order

resurrecting the previous name of the Department of Defense and will add it as a secondary

title to the Pentagon. The order will also add the title Secretary of War to Defense Secretary

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