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The U.S. military has struck an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean
and P.R.s.
“Sean Alistair is more on the latest of multiple strikes in recent days.”
U.S. 7 Command says it carried out a strike on a vessel among 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 "engaged in narcole trafficking operations."
Three men whose southern command calls narcole terrorist 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 that timber, 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 stimming the flow of drugs. Sean Alistair and P.R.
News. Criticism over President Trump's so-called anti-weaponization fund continued Sunday. The fund was created as part of Trump's lawsuit against the IRS and the Department of Justice. He was to compensate people who felt they were politically targeted by the government. Speaking on meet the press Sunday, former Vice President Mike Pence called the fund a bad
idea. Let's get rid of this fund. I mean, it's deeply offensive to me that you could have a fund that could even possibly compensate people who assaulted police officers or vandalized the capital on January 6.
“And I think that's broadly held by most Republicans and most Americans.”
Federal judges have temporarily blocked that fund. Several states are holding primaries on Tuesday that includes California where voters will weigh in unraises for governor. Keep battles that will help determine which party controls Congress and a bitter race for mayor of Los Angeles.
From a representation, K.Q.E.D. Scott Shafer reports, with Gavin Newsom termed out, the race to replace him has been unpredictable. Two Democrats, former state attorney general, Javier Bassera and billionaire investor Tom Styer, along with Republican Steve Hilton, have emerged as the top contenders. Meanwhile, voter-approved redistricting has Democrats hoping to flip up to five house seats.
In Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass had been widely popular until last year's massive wildfires destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. He's in a tight primary battle with Nithia Roman, a progressive member of the LA City Council,
“and an unlikely challenger, Republican Spencer Pratt, a Trump endorsed former reality”
TV star whose home was destroyed in the Palisade's fire. For NPR News, I'm Scott Shafer in San Francisco. A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Sunday. The Palestinian health authority says the 26-year-old was trying to cross into Israel to look for work. Economic conditions in the West Bank are bad for seeing some people to
try and cross into Israel to find jobs on employment as been surging across the area. You're listening to NPR News.
Police in Hawaii have charged a 36-year-old man with several counts of first and second
green murder, Jacob Daniel Baker, scheduled to appear in court on Monday. Police say he killed three people in a remote community known for its communal lifestyle. And so the community say Baker had been living there in exchange for work but had recently become threatening. The rise of AI is driving an unprecedented boom of data centers, but some local governments
are trying to restrict them, including Nashville, Cynthia Abrams of member station WPLN has our reports. Across the state, in Memphis, residents have sounded the alarm about air pollution from Elon Musk's XAI supercomputer. So Nashville City Council members, like Roland Horton, are trying to ban data centers of that
size outright. 500,000 square feet is nine, the size of nine football fields, and those are the ones that really impose enormous cost and communities like we've seen in Memphis. If approved by the Council, the legislation would also enact building and operating restrictions on data centers of all sizes.
Solar legislation has been passed in places including Atlanta, New Orleans, and Minneapolis. For NPR News, I'm Cynthia Abrams in Nashville. Russell Henley, birdied the final three holes to force a play off with Eric Cole on Sunday, Henley then made a five foot put on the first extra hole to win the PGA classic in Texas. Cole meanwhile, par the final seven holes to reach the play off.
With the win, Henley earned a 1.78 million dollar prize, it's his six PGA tour title.
I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
