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NPR News: 09-15-2025 8PM EDT

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

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0:00.0

These days, with all the information coming at you, it can be hard to know what's accurate, what's not, and what's worth your time.

0:07.7

Here to help you navigate it all is 1A.

0:10.2

Five days a week, the 1A podcast provides a forum for Curate's Minds to explore different angles on the biggest headlines and give you a more balanced take on what's happening.

0:19.3

Listen to the 1A podcast from NPR and WAMU.

0:24.5

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jail Snyder.

0:28.5

The U.S. military has carried out another deadly airstrike on a small boat from Venezuela.

0:33.9

NPR's Quill Lawrence reports on the second time this month.

0:36.8

The U.S. has killed alleged drug traffickers.

0:38.8

President Trump posted a video of an airstrike on social media saying the U.S. had confirmed the three

0:44.2

people on a small boat in international waters were carrying drugs on board. Two U.S. officials who

0:49.4

requested anonymity because they're not authorized to speak publicly, told NPR that Congress had been

0:54.5

notified of the strike. The previous strike on a Venezuelan boat killed 11 people who appeared

0:59.6

to be heading back to shore. President Trump has moved ships and troops into the waters off Venezuela

1:04.7

and says the U.S. is hunting what he called narco-terrorists. Venezuela is considered a minor

1:10.2

player in smuggling of cocaine to the U.S.

1:12.8

The far deadlier drug, fentanyl, is made and smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico.

1:17.6

Quill Lawrence NPR News.

1:19.1

President Trump has signed a proclamation making Memphis the latest Democratic-led city to face a federal crackdown on crime.

1:25.9

He announced the deployment of National Guard and other

1:28.1

federal law enforcement officers in the Oval Office today. To Israel, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio

1:34.3

embraced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and publicly expressed U.S. support for Israel's

1:39.2

intensifying war in Gaza. But in Qatar, regional leaders gathered to condemn the war and last week's Israeli

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