Happy New Year! Today, as we usher in 2026, we bid aloha to 2025 and take a look back at the Top 10 stories of the year, as selected by the editorial staff of the Tribune-Herald.

Michael Wolff explains to Joanna Coles that Trump gauges his actions by audience reactions, describing him as more of a performer than a politician. Trump says the US took out a 'big facility' in ...

U.S. Southern Command shared a video of the strikes on X Monday. The U.S. military said on Monday it struck three more alleged drug boats in the Eastern Pacific, leaving eight dead. In a post on X, ...

Donald Trump’s administration for months now has been launching missile strikes at small boats allegedly connected to drug-smuggling operations in the Caribbean. The administration is claiming without ...

The U.S. military blew up another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Thursday, killing four male “narco-terrorists” and continuing its lethal counternarcotics campaign as scrutiny ...

Two survivors of the attack were said to struggle to cling to the boat before a second strike. After the briefing with lawmakers, the military disclosed a boat strike on Thursday that killed four ...

A fatal boating accident has left three dead and one seriously injured after the vessel flipped on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The 39-foot speedboat capsized with four people aboard at around 4 p.m. on ...

James LaPorta is a national security coordinating producer in CBS News' Washington bureau. He is a former U.S. Marine infantryman and veteran of the Afghanistan war. The U.S. military's early ...

CALI, Colombia—They see themselves as the cowboys of the drug trade, highly experienced crews that ferry narcotics on small boats across the open seas, running on a mix of bravado, skill and dreams of ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday he ordered a fourth strike on a small boat in the waters off Venezuela, according to a social media post. "Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were ...