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Korva Coleman
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Trump says the US Military has destroyed a vessel carrying illegal drugs in the Southern Caribbean, killing 11 people. Trump says the boat was from Venezuela and operated by gang members. The the Pentagon recently deployed three naval destroyers off Venezuela to combat threats from drug cartels. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has commented on the matter. NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports. Rubio is now in Mexico, where drugs and migration are leading topics.
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Michelle Kellerman
Secretary Rubio says the US Strike destroyed what he calls a drug boat that left Venezuela and was operated by a designated narco terrorist organization. Speaking to reporters before boarding his plane to Mexico, he says this is a sign that drug cartels can no longer act with impunity.
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Marco Rubio
Those days are over. Now we are going to wage combat against drug cartels that are flooding American streets and killing Americans.
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Michelle Kellerman
Questions about the legality of the US Strikes are likely to cast a long shadow over his talks here with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. He's also planning to meet Ecuador's president in Quito on Thursday. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Mexico City.
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Korva Coleman
House lawmakers will hold a press conference this morning on the steps of the U.S. capitol. They'll be joined by several survivors of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie have introduced a discharge petition. This is a tool to go around House leadership and bring their bill to the floor. The bill seeks to force the Justice Department to release more files on the Epstein case. NPR's Domenico Montanaro says their efforts have had some effect.
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Domenico Montanaro
I mean, after the petition was filed, the Republican controlled House Oversight committee released some 30,000 more pages of documents related to the investigation. But a lot of that information is already public. It's not new. And those in favor of the release of more release are saying don't be fooled by that.
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Korva Coleman
NPR's Domenico Montanaro. There's been a major ruling against big tech company Google. A federal judge has issued a series of penalties against Google for acting as a monopoly in the search engine market. NPR's Jacqueline Diaz has more.
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Jacqueline Diaz
It's a ruling that's been five years in the making and one that falls far short of what the federal government sought from federal Judge Ahmed Mehta. In 2020, the Justice Department filed an antitrust case against Google. The doj said the tech giant was operating as a monopoly because Google's exclusive deals with device makers like Apple and Samsung unfairly boxed out competitors last year. Judge Ahmed Mehta agreed. Now he has ruled that Google doesn't have to sell off its Chrome browser, but that the company does have to stop making exclusive deals. Judge Mehta said Google can still pay those device makers to preload Google Search and other products. Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
Google is a financial supporter of npr. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A federal appeals court panel has ruled President Trump's use of a wartime power is illegal. The appellate panel says Trump cannot use the Alien Enemies act to deport Venezuelans from three states. Trump claims they're members of a gang. The issue has been to the Supreme Court twice, but the high court has not yet ruled directly on whether Trump's use of the Alien Enemies act is legal. Rescuers in Afghanistan are still trying to reach victims from this week's powerful earthquake. At least 1,400 people have been killed and another 3,000 injured. Bad weather has slowed down rescue work. A new report from the World Health organization suggests over 1 billion people around the world have a mental disorder. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports that most of these people are living in low or middle income countries.
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Jonathan Lambert
Mental health is a growing problem for the globe. According to the who, over the last decade, the number of people living with mental health disorders increased at a faster pace than the population as a whole. Deaths by suicide, however, are down 35% since the year 2000, but still claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year. Depression and anxiety are the most common conditions and cost upwards of $1 trillion each year from productivity losses, the report estimates. On average, governments allocate a tiny fraction of their health budgets to mental health, putting treatment out of reach for many. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
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