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Speaker 2 The House and Senate Armed Services Committee say they will look into military strikes ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on boats allegedly smuggling drugs in the Caribbean.

Speaker 2 NPR's Lydia Kalitri reports.

Speaker 3 A source not authorized to speak publicly confirms to NPR that Hegseth ordered two strikes on an alleged drug boat on September 2nd, the second attack killing the survivors of the first.

Speaker 3 The Washington Post first reported that Hegseth gave a spoken order for the military to kill everyone on board the vessel.

Speaker 3 Republican Congressman Don Bacon is a member of the House Armed Services Committee. He told ABC's this week, When people want to surrender, you don't kill them.

Speaker 4 And they have to pose an imminent threat. It's hard to believe that two people on a raft trying to survive would pose an imminent threat.

Speaker 3 The military has carried out at least 21 strikes on alleged drug boats as part of Operation Southern Spear, a campaign that the Trump administration says is aimed at tackling drug trafficking.

Speaker 3 Lydia Calitri, NPR News, Washington.

Speaker 2 According to a recent Gallup poll, people in the U.S. are viewing crime as a less serious problem for the second year in a row.

Speaker 2 As NPR's Meg Anderson reports, the falling concern over crime matches the fact that crime itself is actually falling in much of the U.S.

Speaker 5 A little under half of the Americans surveyed said crime is a very serious problem in the country. That's the lowest level it's been since 2018.
And that makes sense. The U.S.

Speaker 5 has seen large drops in crime rates this year in nearly every category, including homicides, motor vehicle thefts, and burglaries.

Speaker 5 The reality of crime rates don't always align with whether people feel safe. According to Gallup, those beliefs are also influenced by political preferences.

Speaker 5 For instance, even though crime was also falling last year, Republicans only became less concerned about it this year when President Trump took office.

Speaker 5 And the reverse is true for Democrats, although to a lesser extent. Meg Anderson, NPR News.

Speaker 2 After a federal tax credit for electric vehicles was eliminated at the end of September, sales of those battery-powered supplied cars dropped sharply.

Speaker 2 But as NPR's Camilla Dominovsky reports, there are signs interest in EVs are up.

Speaker 7 The auto industry expected sales to fall after the $7,500 tax credit went away. Buyers had 7,500 reasons to hurry up and buy an EV in September, which means not buying one in October.

Speaker 7 But while sales of new EVs have indeed plunged, sales of used EVs are still growing compared to last year, according to both Cox Automotive and Cars.com.

Speaker 7 And JD Power reports that the share of new car shoppers who say they're very likely to consider an EV actually went up after the tax credit expired.

Speaker 7 Meanwhile, globally, EV sales are still rising, now making up nearly 37% of the market, according to Jeffries. Camila Dominovsky, NPR News.

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Speaker 2 Black Friday online sales reached a record $11.8 billion Friday, a more than 9% jump from last year. This is consumers continued to express uncertainty about the strength of the U.S.
economy.

Speaker 2 But traditional brick-and-mortar retail stores saw their sales decline by 9%.

Speaker 2 Cancer survivors are more likely to develop depression than people in the general population.

Speaker 2 Now a new study finds that nearly 11% of survivors of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer are diagnosed with depression years after their cancer diagnosis. NPR's Ritu Chatterjee reports.

Speaker 6 Researchers looked at long-term health data for more than 50,000 people who had survived breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer to understand long-term risks of depression in this group.

Speaker 6 The risk was highest for breast cancer survivors with more than 13% developing depression five to ten years after their cancer diagnosis.

Speaker 6 Colorectal cancer survivors had the next highest risk, with nearly 12% getting a depression diagnosis over a similar time period.

Speaker 6 Being eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare increased the risk of developing depression, as did pre-existing anxiety. The findings are published in JAMA Oncology.
Read the chaturgy, NPR News.

Speaker 2 Two undefeated Big Ten teams, Ohio State and Indiana University, remain number one and number two in college football. They'll play for the conference championship next weekend in Indianapolis.

Speaker 2 The SEC's Georgia moved up to number three. I'm Dan Ronan, NPR News, Washington.

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