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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.