In the wide Eastern Pacific Ocean, where fast speedboats loaded with cocaine race through international waters, U.S. Coast Guard planes fired warning shots and then aimed at boat engines to stop three vessels that would not pull over.

A buoy in the St. Marys River was dragged out of position by ice, leading to the closure of a section of the river corridor used by the big cargo vessels.

The U.S. Coast Guard is updating its fleet, adding up to six Arctic Security Cutter (ASC) icebreaker ships as part of joint security efforts between the United States and Finland.

Cutters are still stopping smugglers and seizing drugs, but the prosecutions of go-fast boat crews are dwindling in a realignment of federal resources.

Bollinger Shipyards will produce four Arctic security cutters for the Coast Guard, with delivery expected to begin in 2029.

Congressional critics have called for action to close an Arctic region “icebreaker gap” with Russia and China.

The woman was a passenger on the Nieuw Statendam cruise ship, which was roughly 40 miles northeast of Sabana, Cuba, when she went overboard, the Coast Guard said.