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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. Members of Congress have seen a video of a controversial U.S. military strike, and the images show two survivors of an initial strike being killed in a second attack on their boat off Venezuela. U.S. Senator Jack Reed, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, calls the images disturbing.
One of the problems we have here is If we don't insist upon strict observation of the rules of law, we can't expect our opponents to do it. And as a result, we're jeopardizing the lives of young men and women in our armed services. And that has to be foremost in our deliberation.
Senator Reid says the military is carrying out operations that are typically handled by the Coast Guard. The Trump administration maintains that all of the people killed in dozens of U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and East Pacific this year were drug traffickers. Congress is working on a deal that could possibly extend subsidies for people enrolled in health care plans through the Affordable Care Act. As NPR's Selina Simmons-Duffin reports, a new survey finds that most enrollees want lawmakers to do something.
The so-called enhanced subsidies first passed in 2021 are popular, but they will go away at the end of December without congressional action. The new survey by KFF, a nonpartisan health research organization, finds that more than eight in 10 marketplace enrollees say lawmakers should extend the enhanced tax credits. If they do expire, most enrollees who say they want the credits extended think either President Trump or congressional Republicans deserve most of the blame. KFF surveyed 1,300 enrollees starting November 1st. Lawmakers are working on a tight deadline, with a vote in the Senate on this issue planned for next week. Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.
The Department of Homeland Security is ramping up its scrutiny of legal migrants. As NPR's Ximena Bustillo reports, the move comes after an Afghan national was charged with shooting two National Guard members.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in a memo on Tuesday said it would pause reviewing all pending applications for green cards, citizenship, or asylum from immigrants of 19 countries listed in a previous travel ban. President Trump in June announced the travel ban against 12 countries, including Afghanistan, and partial restrictions against seven others. USCIS also plans to re-review all approved immigration-related requests for anyone from those 19 countries that entered the country since the Biden administration. That means people who are already approved to be refugees or get green cards could see their applications reopened or newly denied. The changes come after the agency already paused the processing on all asylum applications after the shooting.
Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.
You're listening to NPR. Russia alleges that Apple's FaceTime feature is being used to organize terrorist activities. It's the latest in Moscow's years-long effort to control Internet and online communications. Russia banned social media platforms after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine and shut down many cell phone connections. The leader of a Palestinian militia opposing Hamas has been killed. As NPR's Aya Patraoui reports, the militia leader had been backed and armed by Israel.
Yasser Abu Shabab is known locally as a notorious criminal who was in prison for drug smuggling when the war in Gaza began. Later, he became known as the leader of the Abu Shabab militia, named after him. Palestinian aid workers say his militia was behind deadly attacks on aid trucks and the single biggest theft of UN aid globally, when around 100 trucks were looted late last year. The lootings plunged Gaza into starvation as UN bakeries ran out of flour. Hamas militants tried to kill Yeser Abu Shabeb, but he fled with his militia to southern Gaza under the protection of Israeli forces, where he was being tapped to lead an armed resistance against Hamas.
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