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LIVE from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Gerald Ford carrier strike group is being sent to the U.S. southern Command area of responsibility. According to a statement from Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, the US Already has a sizable military presence in the Caribbean. Forces have carried out 10 strikes on alleged drug vessels in the region, resulting in more than 40 deaths. Include a lethal strike in the Caribbean Sea overnight, destroying a vessel that was carrying six people. Julia Carneiro has details.
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This was the 10th known vessel destroyed by the US since early September. President Trump said there would be ground operations against drug cartels very soon as tension escalates. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro made this appeal.
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Not war, just peace. Just peace. Just peace forever.
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The US has been holding military exercises close to Venezuela in the past weeks. This video from the US Southern Command plays a clock ticking as it shows soldiers flying over the Caribbean Sea and tanks entering a jungle. Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called the attacks extrajudicial executions. For NPR News, I'm Julia Carneiro.
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It'll take weeks for the heavily armed USS Ford to reach the region. More announcements are expected on ships that will be part of the Ford strike group. President Trump's called off trade talks with Canada over an Ontario TV ad invoking the late President Reagan's remarks about free and fair trade. Today, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney turned his focus to Asia, where we can.
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Also control or at least heavily influence is developing new partnerships and opportunities, including with the economic giants of Asia, which is the focus of this trip.
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Carney in Ottawa ahead of the association of Southeast Asian nations summit in Kuala Lumpur. This is day 24 of the US government shutdown. More than a million federal workers are not getting paid today. Here's NPR's Andrea Hsu.
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Some 700,000 federal workers are still furloughed. Close to that, many are working without pay. That includes people like Tierra Carter, who answers phones for the Social Security Administration in Florida and also serves as a union representative with the American Federation of Government Employees. The lack of a paycheck has brought her new financial stress.
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Having to manipulate things over here, move things over here, delay payments here, all to just make it to work.
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43% of federal workers earn less than $90,000 a year, according to the Pew Research Center. Now many workers are turning to community groups for food assistance and and credit unions for emergency loans as they wait for the shutdown to end. Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
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The Dow Jones industrial Average is up 540 points, or more than 1%, at 47,275. It's NPR News. New York. Attorney General Letitia James has pleaded not guilty to charges related to allegations that she lied on mortgage documents. She appeared in a federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, this morning. James is among several prominent Trump critics the administration's targeted. The Labor Department reports inflation in September was up 3% from the year before and 3/10 of a percent higher from the previous month. The data were released despite the government shutdown because the Social Security Administration needed the July through September numbers to calculate the cost of living adjustment for the following year. The World Series is set to open tonight in Toronto, Canada. The Toronto Blue Jays will host last year's defending champion, Los Angeles Dodgers. Steve Futterman reports from Toronto.
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The Dodgers are trying to do something rarely done these days, repeat as champions. The New York Yankees were the last to do it in 2000. They won three in a row. Louisiana pitcher Clayton Kershaw says the Dodgers just want to win and and are not focused on being called a dynasty.
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After 10, 15 years, we can all look back on all that, but for now, it's not really talked about. It's not really a hot button issue with the players.
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While Los Angeles is led by the great Shohei Ohtani, Toronto's hitting star is Vladimir Guerrero Jr. He has six home runs during these playoffs. That's even one more than Ohtani. Still, L A is the big favorite, primarily because of the Dodgers starting pitching. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman. At the World Series in Toronto, I'm.
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Lakshmi Singh, NPR News, in Washington.
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This episode of NPR News Now delivers concise updates on major global and national stories, including U.S. military action in the Caribbean, escalating tensions with Venezuela, the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, economic developments, legal news regarding New York’s Attorney General, inflation data amid the shutdown, and a preview of the World Series. The reporting is characterized by NPR's signature calm, factual style, led by anchor Lakshmi Singh.
This episode captures a snapshot of a tense global and domestic moment: U.S. military moves and their diplomatic fallout, frozen governance in Washington, economic trends, and the world of sports converging in a succinct, five-minute news bulletin.