The $12.9 billion warship stretches 4.5 acres and is the first of the Navy's next generation of aircraft carriers.

China’s newest aircraft carrier may only be able to conduct air operations at about 60% the rate of a 50-year-old US Navy carrier, two former US carrier officers say, a substantial combat limitation for a vessel meant to revolutionize Beijing’s fleet.

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro claims the U.S. is waging a war against him as the world's largest warship nears the country.

The Midway-class aircraft carrier was instrumental in American naval operations around the world spanning from the end of WWII into the 1990s.

The deployment comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a 10th strike against a suspected drug smuggling vessel.