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Doualisai Kowtel (0:14)
Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Doualisai Kowtel. US Military forces have destroyed another small boat allegedly smuggling drugs in the Pacific. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports. U.S. southern Command says one man aboard was killed.
Quill Lawrence (0:31)
A video Posted by the U.S. military shows a small boat under fire and then in flames. The Trump administration says it is at war with drug cartels and can therefore kill suspected traffickers even if they are unarmed. Dozens of boats have been hit since September, killing more than 100 people. Critics in Congress and experts on the laws of war say that's murder. President Trump has mentioned the strikes as a way to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom he accuses of narcotrafficking. At a press event yesterday, President Trump said it would be smart for Maduro to step down. The US has strict sanctions on Venezuela, and now the US Coast Guard has begun seizing massive tankers carrying Venezuelan crude oil. Trump said the US May keep or sell the oil. Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
Doualisai Kowtel (1:16)
A federal judge has ruled the deportations of more than 100 Venezuelans to El Salvador were illegal. NPR immigration correspondent Jimena Bastillo reports. Early in the Trump administration, the US Deported numerous men to a prison in El Salvador after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.
Jimena Bastillo (1:36)
The White House has accused the men without evidence presented in court of being members of the Venezuelan gang trend. The deportations prompted several legal fights over the use of this law, and it brought to the forefront also the administration's clashes with judges. Boasberg was among the judges to first question the use of the Alien Enemies act to deport Venezuelans in this way. And the judge has threatened the government with contempt for or disobeying his order to stop the plane.
Doualisai Kowtel (2:05)
She said some of the imprisoned men described to NPR reporters unsanitary conditions, sexual abuse, and one man called it, quote, hell on earth. The men have since been returned to their home country. The Commerce department says the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 4.3%. That's much faster than expected in the third quarter. And Perzalina Selyuk reports.
Perzalina Selyuk (2:30)
Between July and September, the report shows the US Economy growing at a robust pace, accelerating from the growth seen in the previous quarter. Earlier in the year, the economy had actually shrunk as companies rushed to ship foreign goods ahead of President Trump's global tariffs. Consumers remain the key engine driving the growth, with higher spending, especially on health care. The report calls out spending on hospital and nursing home services and on prescription drugs. People also spent more on, quote, information processing equipment that could be computer hardware, presumably as part of the AI boom. At the same time, business and residential investment declined in the third quarter. Spending by state and local governments increased. Alina Seluk, NPR News, Washington.