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Live from NPR News. I'm Lakshmi Singh. The highly watched economic report on retail spending in the United States shows retail growth slowed down a bit in September, up 2/10 of a percent from August. The report from the Commerce Department was delayed because of the recent government shutdown. Here's NPR's Alina Selyukh.
Alina Selyukh (0:36)
The federal data on retail sales is behind by more than a month, and it's showing consumers cooling off a bit in September as they continued to go out to shop and eat. Compared to September of last year, spending at stores and restaurants grew 4.3%, with people shopping more for clothes and electronics in the tail end of the back to school season. And they went out to restaurants and bars. All this lines up with a slew of positive, positive sales reports from major retailers including Walmart, Amazon, Best Buy and Dick's Sporting Goods. The industry is now predicting another record holiday season, counting on the fact that people generally are employed and wages are still growing faster than inflation. Alina Selu, NPR News, Washington.
Lakshmi Singh (1:15)
The US Has a naval flotilla off the Venezuelan coast, and President Trump has branded a group linked to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a foreign terrorist organization, a claim Maduro calls ridiculous. NPR's Franco Ordonez is tracking the Trump administration's actions, striking boats in the waters near Venezuela it deems drug trafficking threats.
Franco Ordonez (1:36)
To the U.S. there's a debate whether striking Venezuela fits with America first. Now, the White House says that Trump is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into the country, and that is America first. But going farther than that carries a risk of longer term responsibility. Now, of course, there are cases where regime change arguably worked. Take Panama in 1989. But there are other examples, including Iraq and Afghanistan, where regime change did not go so well.
Lakshmi Singh (2:04)
NPR's Franco Ordonia is reporting. Women who stopped taking wegovy and similar GLP1 weight loss drugs just before or early in pregnancy faced a higher risk of complications, including preterm birth. NPR's Maria Godoy reports. That is according to new findings published in the journal JAMA.
Maria Godoy (2:25)