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NPR News: 12-13-2025 12PM EST

13 Dec 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theschmidt.org.

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump says the United States is preparing to carry out land strikes against drug trafficking operations in Latin America.

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But it's not only land strikes on Venezuela. It's land strikes on horrible people. that are breaking in drugs and killing our people.

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Trump didn't offer details on timing or location of the strikes. The administration says the military actions are aimed at disrupting drug trafficking networks. The U.S. carried out strikes on boats in the region it says were smuggling drugs, actions that officials say have killed more than 80 people. In recent days, U.S. forces also seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

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Floodwaters remain high across parts of Washington state after days of heavy rain. Officials say rivers could stay elevated for several more days with more rainfall on the way. A new survey shows lawmakers from both parties are losing ground with young voters ahead of next year's midterms.

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New data released from the University of Chicago questioned more than 5,000 young Americans between the ages of 18 and 42. NPR's Elena Moore reports these voters are feeling increasingly unhappy with politics as they struggle with the high cost of living.

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This latest poll finds that roughly 6 in 10 young Americans have unfavorable impressions of both parties. Kathy Cohen runs the GenForward survey.

Chapter 2: What military actions is the U.S. planning against drug trafficking in Latin America?

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She argues that the dissatisfaction young people feel is tied to their concerns about the economy.

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There is a real sense that these individuals and these parts of the administration are not delivering...

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The poll finds that nearly 9 in 10 young people are concerned about the price of food and the cost of health care. Plus, about a third think they're going to be worse off financially than their parents. Elena Moore, NPR News.

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An American journalist who was wounded in an Israeli strike in Lebanon is renewing his call for the U.S. to investigate the incident as a targeted attack. NPR's Frank Langfitt reports.

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Dylan Collins is a video journalist from Vermont who works for AFP. In 2023, he and fellow reporters were hit twice by Israeli tank fire, which killed a Reuters cameraman. Collins captured the attack on video. Collins spoke Thursday outside the Capitol.

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I thought that when an American citizen is wounded in an attack carried out by the U.S. 's greatest ally in the Middle East, that we'd be able to get some answers. But for two years, I've been met by deafening silence.

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More than two years later, the Israeli Defense Force, or IDF, says the incident is still being examined. The Committee to Protect Journalists says the IDF has targeted and killed 59 journalists and media workers since October 2023. The IDF denies it targets journalists. Frank Langford, NPR News, Washington.

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This is NPR News in Washington. The U.S. military says two U.S. service members and one U.S. civilian were killed in an attack in Syria today. In a post on X from U.S. Central Command on December 13th, two U.S. service members and one U.S. civilian were killed and three service members were injured as a result of an ambush by a lone ISIS gunman in Syria. The gunman was killed.

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Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia continues despite President Trump's announcement on Friday that he had brokered a ceasefire. Michael Sullivan reports.

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