NPR News: 12-06-2025 2AM EST
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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwahlisa Kautel. The Pentagon has announced another strike on a boat in the Pacific. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports it happened as some lawmakers say an earlier strike killed shipwrecked survivors.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on social media that the U.S. military conducted another deadly strike on a small boat he said was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific. He released a brief surveillance video of a boat bursting into flames. This was the 22nd known attack on alleged narco-traffickers. It took place the same day that Admiral Mitch Bradley briefed congressional leaders behind closed doors about the first strike on September 2nd. Some Democratic members of Congress say video of that incident showed that two surviving crew members were killed about 40 minutes after the initial strike while trying to right their capsized boat. Republicans who viewed the same video say it was illegal military action.
Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
Newly appointed vaccine advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have stopped recommending that all newborns get a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. NPR's Ping Huang reports the vote was contentious and strongly opposed by most of the medical community.
Many in the medical and public health communities are very upset about the vote and they're worried about its likely impacts on health. Now, that is even though with this change, the hepatitis B vaccine should still be covered for free for any parent who wants it for their child. Those in public health also see it as part of a broader push by Secretary Kennedy to undermine vaccines and discourage people from getting them, even though the evidence in the safety record has not changed.
NPR's Ping Huang. Russia's leader says his country is prepared to facilitate uninterrupted shipments of fuel to India. NPR's Dia Hadid reports.
India ramped up its purchasing of Russian oil after the invasion of Ukraine and is now one of the world's biggest buyers. It also sells Russian oil products onwards. But in recent weeks, Indian companies have curbed their purchases. It came after the Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs on goods from India and after sanctions were slapped on major Russian oil producers. It's not clear how Putin can continue uninterrupted shipments of fuel to India, but energy analysts say there's been an increase in sanctions-avoiding behaviour on the high seas. India insists the US is imposing a double standard – partly because other major buyers like China haven't been punished, while the U.S. and Europe purchase Russian oil products through third countries.
Dear Hadid, NPR News, Mumbai.
The architect of the incomparable Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Frank Gehry, has died. Gary told NPR in 2004, I've always been for optimism and architecture not being sad. It should be a great experience and it should be fun to go to. This is NPR. The New York Times has launched another lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company. This time it's suing Perplexity AI for copying Times journalism without permission. Zen Pierce John Rewich reports this follows a suit against the market leader in chatbots OpenAI.
Perplexity, like other chatbots, can answer questions about pretty much anything, but the New York Times says it crawls the internet and steals Times content from behind its paywall to get some of those answers. The Times says it has repeatedly asked Perplexity to end its unauthorized use of its content. AI chatbots are trained on reams of data scraped from the internet, and it's been a huge source of controversy because some of that information is proprietary or private. The Times lawsuit against Perplexity follows a similar suit two years ago against OpenAI. That legal battle is ongoing. Perplexity says in a statement, publishers have been suing new tech companies for years and it's never worked.
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