Hi, it's Terry Gross, host of Fresh Air.

I interviewed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro about his lifelong obsession with Frankenstein

and his new adaptation in which the creature is tormented by eternal life.

I'm a huge fan of death.

I'm a groupie for death.

You can find my interview on the Fresh Air podcast.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The U.S. military carried out another lethal

strike on the Caribbean Sea overnight, destroying a boat carrying six people. Julia

Carrnero reports. This was the 10th known vessel destroyed by the U.S. 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.

Not war. Just peace. Just peace. Just peace. Forever.

The U.S. has been holding military exercises close to Venezuela in the past weeks.

This video from the U.S. 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 attack's extrajudicial executions.

For NPR news, I'm Julia Carnero. The government shutdown is disrupting flights and putting

pressure on air traffic controllers who are working without pay. Flights have been delayed at

major airports across the country due to air traffic controller shortages. Transportation

Secretary Sean Duffy says the Trump

administration will reduce the number of flights if the shutdown continues. If we don't have

enough controllers, if we have controllers that are more stressed and less able to do the job,

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