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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
--:-- Giles Snyder: With tensions rising between the U.S. and Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro held a rally with his supporters this weekend where he sang part of Imagine, John Lennon's iconic song.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Maduro denounced plans for the U.S. to hold military drills expected to begin today in Trinidad and Tobago.
--:-- Giles Snyder: On Friday, President Trump suggested that he has made a decision on Venezuela, but he declined to reveal it.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Thousands of U.S. troops are stationed off the coast of South America, and the U.S.'s most advanced warship, the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, is expected to arrive in the region today.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Under the Trump administration, the U.S. military has blown up 20 suspected drug smuggling boats. A total of 80 people are believed to have been killed.
--:-- Giles Snyder: North Carolina's largest city is now the latest to be targeted by a surge in federal immigration agents. The Homeland Security Department confirmed the surge in Charlotte last night and agents have been seen making arrests.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Charlotte's Democratic mayor says they are causing unnecessary fear.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The aviation system is gradually returning to normal after the government shutdown, but some effects will remain through the weekend.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Here's NPR's Joel Rose reporting.
--:-- Joel Rose: Aviation regulators say there's been a rapid decline in staffing shortages at air traffic control facilities over the past week.
--:-- Joel Rose: That's given the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration the confidence that more air traffic controllers are coming to work.
--:-- Joel Rose: Regulators lowered air traffic reductions at dozens of major airports from 6% of flights to 3% through the weekend, but they did not lift them entirely.
--:-- Joel Rose: The FAA said the restrictions were necessary to keep the airspace safe as the agency grappled with widespread staffing shortages of air traffic controllers during the government shutdown.
--:-- Joel Rose: But with the government reopened, air traffic controllers have finally received some of the back pay they earned, and most are now back on the job.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The new report finds that the youngest Texans were impacted the most after the state enacted a six-week abortion ban back in 2021.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Texas Public Radio's Bonnie Petrie has more.
--:-- Bonnie Petrie: The number of pregnancy terminations that happened in clinical settings in the year after the ban fell sharply for everyone but for those under 18 the number fell by 26.
--:-- Bonnie Petrie: More than one in four of the children who might have gotten an abortion at a facility in Texas did not.
--:-- Bonnie Petrie: According to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health, all age groups experienced double-digit declines.
--:-- Bonnie Petrie: The study says those under 18 may have seen the sharpest decline, in part because they're less likely to recognize the signs of pregnancy before six weeks gestation.
--:-- Giles Snyder: For NPR News, I'm Bonnie Petrie.
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--:-- Giles Snyder: Protesters took to the streets across Mexico this weekend to denounce rising violence following the killing of a mayor earlier this month.
--:-- Giles Snyder: There were clashes with police in Mexico City after protesters tore down fences around the National Palace where President Claudia Sheinbaum lives.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Authorities say some 100 police officers were injured and 20 civilians were injured as well.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Thousands protested under the banner of the Gen Z youth groups.
--:-- Giles Snyder: More than 1,000 musicians have removed their music from streaming services in Israel part of a boycott as NPR's Isabella Gomez reports.
--:-- Isabella Gomez: The musician protest calls for an end to the violence in Gaza and the West Bank.
--:-- Isabella Gomez: Some of the artists who joined are Bjork Lord and Haley Williams.
--:-- Isabella Gomez: No Music for Genocide initially started in September, but has continued to grow in numbers more than a month into a fragile ceasefire agreement.
--:-- Isabella Gomez: Some Israelis say the artists' efforts are misguided because the boycott affects even those who oppose the war.
--:-- Isabella Gomez: The participating musicians credit historic boycotts in South Africa, like artists united against apartheid, as an important precedent to this current movement.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento, NPR News.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The activist and author Alice Wong has died.
--:-- Giles Snyder: A close friend says she died of an infection Friday in a hospital in San Francisco.
--:-- Giles Snyder: She was 51.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Wong was a champion of people with disabilities and in 2024, was among the recipients of the MacArthur Genius Grant.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Wrong was diagnosed at birth with muscular dystrophy, a progressive neuromuscular disease.
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