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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. The U.S. military has struck an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean. NPR's Shondelise Duster has more on the latest of multiple strikes in recent days.
U.S. Southern Command says it carried out a strike on a vessel along a drug trafficking route in the eastern Pacific on Saturday. The U.S. military says the boat was operated by a designated terrorist organization and was, quote, engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three men who Southern Command calls narco-terrorists were killed. Video posted on social media by Southern Command shows a small boat floating in the ocean and then a cloud of smoke after the strikes. This is the fourth strike the U.S. military has conducted on alleged drug-smuggling boats in recent days. Since September, the U.S. military has targeted suspected drug-smuggling boats in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean, killing more than 200 people.
Criticism is growing around the legality of their attacks and whether they are even effective at stemming the flow of drugs. Shondalese Duster, NPR News.
Newark, New Jersey, has imposed an overnight curfew around Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center. This came after another night of clashes between police and people protesting conditions in the facility. New Jersey Governor Mikey Sherrill says she called in the state police to keep ICE agents away from the protests, which she says have been largely peaceful.
For months, there have been peaceful protests outside as members of our congressional delegation, families, advocates and faith leaders have all tried to ensure that those detainees, especially the most vulnerable, have their basic needs met.
She also said that starting today, the federal government is again allowing family visits at Delaney Hall. The largest detention facility in the U.S. is in El Paso, Texas. Civil rights groups are suing the government on behalf of detainees there, alleging horrific and inhumane conditions. Workers in the U.S. are putting a record amount of their paychecks into retirement. That's according to a new report from Fidelity on Retirement Savings for the first quarter of the year. But NPR's Stephen Bissaha reports the report also shows growing signs of economic distress.
For workers that have a 401k, their total savings rate reached about 14.5%. That is the contribution from both employees and employers, and a record rate according to Fidelity. Mike Chamrell is vice president of thought leadership at Fidelity Investments.
The good news is we're seeing very positive behaviors, not only among older workers who may be higher salaried, who may have a little bit bigger nest egg, but also among our Gen Z employees.
Fidelity did report some signs of financial stress. Two and a half percent of workers with retirement accounts dipped into their savings last quarter, a slight increase from a year earlier. Stephen Basaja, NPR News.
This is NPR News in Washington. 1,037 people wearing white halter dresses and platinum blonde wigs descended on Palm Springs, California yesterday, ahead of what would have been Marilyn Monroe's 100th birthday. Madison Ament from member station KVCR reports.
The rules were simple. Blonde wig, white halter dress, and... You need to have your red lips to get counted. Volunteers shouted instructions inside the glam tent where the hairspray flowed freely. As many, like Rich Robinson, who came in from Seattle, got glammed up by pros.
They are beautifying my Marilyn Monroe hair at this moment.
Like the hair products, the impressions flowed too. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. That's Julie Varin, who came from Hollywood. The lookalikes eventually gathered for the final count with the MC Scott Nevins. 1,037 Maryland's packed this area in Palm Springs and broke the world record. Some like it hot, and here, some also like it record-breaking. For NPR News, I'm Madison Aument in Palm Springs.
Italy celebrates Republic Day on Tuesday. To remember June 2, 1946, when Italians chose a republic over a monarchy after World War II.
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