The U.S. military has conducted another strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Pacific, leaving four people dead.

The eight arms sales agreements announced Wednesday cover 82 high-mobility artillery rocket systems, or HIMARS, and 420 Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS — similar to what the U.S. had been providing Ukraine during the Biden administration to defend itself from Russia — worth more than $4 billion. They also include 60 self-propelled howitzer systems and related equipment worth more than $4 billion and drones valued at more than $1 billion.

In a primetime address to the nation Wednesday, President Donald Trump touted his administration's accomplishments and announced military members would receive a $1,776 “warrior dividend.” NewsNation’s Libbey Dean has the details.

Police say the alleged gunmen who opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney's Bondi Beach had traveled to Mindanao in the Philippines last month, as investigators probe ties to extremist networks. Cara Angeline Oliver has more.

Federal authorities say they have foiled a plot to bomb multiple sites of two U.S. companies on New Year's Eve in Southern California.

US President Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices. The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a "false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump," calling it "a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence" the 2024 US presidential election. Last month, Trump had already sent a letter to the BBC threatening a $1 billion lawsuit over an edition of the BBC’s flagship current affairs series "Panorama," titled "Trump: A Second Chance?" broadcast days before the 2024 US presidential election. The lawsuit accused the BBC of "splicing together two entirely separate parts of President Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021" to "intentionally misrepresent the meaning of what President Trump said." The speech took place before some of Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol as Congress was poised to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election that Trump falsely alleged was stolen from him. The broadcaster had apologised last month to Trump over the edit of the speech, but rejected claims it had defamed him. BBC chairman Samir Shah had called it an "error of judgment," which triggered the resignations of the BBC’s top executive and its head of news. The hourlong documentary spliced together three quotes from two sections of the 2021 speech, delivered almost an hour apart, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and "fight like hell." Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

The president says he wants to avoid red tape as the country races against China for superiority in AI.