The Latest Breaking News from US Coast Guard

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard has stopped at sea more than 3,000 Cuban migrants fleeing deteriorating economic, safety and political conditions in the island nation who were heading to the coast of Florida since October — more than the last five fiscal years combined, according to the agency.

Less than 10 minutes after getting a mayday call from the 50-foot recreational vessel, the Coast Guard arrived on the scene to recover all passengers without injury, officials said.

The U.S. Coast Guard says two overdue boaters have been found safe

Jones’s daughter says ‘she hadn’t received any communication from her mother since they departed’

MIAMI — The number of Cubans fleeing poverty and oppression on the island surpassed the Mariel exodus of 1980, as U.S. government data reveals that more than 140,000 Cubans have been detained at U.S. borders between October last year and May.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for two people reported overdue after they decided to return to Virginia in their weather-damaged boat instead of continuing to Portugal’s Azores

A U.S. Navy warship has fired a warning flare to wave off an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat coming straight at it during a tense encounter in the strategic Strait of Hormuz

The U.S. Coast Guard sent 45 people back to Cuba on Sunday after stopping them off the Florida Keys last week.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating incident