By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced yet another deadly strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, coming the same day an aircraft carrier began heading to the region in a new expansion of military firepower.

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The attack Tuesday killed two people aboard the vessel, Hegseth

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