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Rescue work is getting underway in Caracas after a back-to-back earthquake set brought
“down buildings in the Venezuelan capital.”
Officials are reporting a growing number of injured and the U.S. Geological Survey is warning of the potential for heavy casualties. Reporter Maria Graderall is in Caracas. >> When the earthquake started, I was in my house and it was like super hard. I mean, before I had no experience something like that, you could see how the walls were
moving and everything was moving around too. So we, as far as we could, we got out of the, off the apartment and we went to a, like, to a square. >> Northern California also hit by a cluster of quakes today. The U.S. Geological Survey says the epicenter was near the rural town of Willets.
There were no immediate reports of major damage. President Trump on the National Mall this evening kicking off what's called the Great American State Fair, a 16-day event celebrating the nation's 250th birthday. >> 10 days from now, our country will celebrate one of the most monumental milestones in human history.
“We will mark 250 years of glorious American freedom.”
>> Trump headline the opening night after several musical acts dropped outside and concerns that it had become politicized. Trump's campaign style speech cap today in which he held a tense, capital hill meeting with congressional Republicans following Tuesday's Senate passage of war powers resolution on Iran. And after Trump canceled a signing ceremony for a bill aimed at making housing more affordable,
saying he wants Congress to first pass legislation that would require proof of citizenship
for all voters. Also a federal judge dealt a setback today to the administration's elections agenda, barring the president from implementing most of his first executive order on elections. Today, Mark 4 years since the Supreme Court overturned Rovers' weight and the constitutional right to abortion, since then, the number of abortions nationally has actually increased
each year as medication abortion becomes easier to access. Here's MPR's Selena Simmons stuff in reporting. >> The internet telemedicine and sending abortion medication in the mail have profoundly shaped abortion access and post-war America.
“The residents of the 13 states with abortion bands have continued to access abortion using”
those tools and by traveling across state lines. Republican lawmakers continued to push for more abortion restrictions, several states have introduced bills to charge women who have abortions with homicide. Democrats in the Senate, including Patty Murray of Washington State, held a press conference in support of abortion rights.
>> We are in this fight and we will not give up and we will not stop until we get our rights back. >> The opinion polls show most Americans support legal access to abortion in all or most circumstances. >> Selena Simmons stuff in, and PR news, Washington.
>> This is MPR. >> Electroleficials in Columbia have declared have a lot of Dalai's pre-ella the winner of Sunday's runoff presidential election. Dalai's pre-ella is a political newcomer who was endorsed by President Trump. He defeated progressive lawmaker Ivonne Sabeta by a narrow margin.
They let us pre-ella's term begins in August. Nearly eight in 10 Gen Ziers say they want a job that allows them to help others. That's according to a new Gallup poll examining how young people feel about their purpose in life. Here's MPR's Andrew Shoo.
>> Gallup surveyed close to 2,500 people, ages 13 through 28. A large majority of them said they hope to make a positive difference in people's lives through work. The sentiment was shared across the full range of Gen Ziers, regardless of age, gender, race, and financial status.
The reality based on the polling is that not everyone is achieving that, among those 18 and older who have jobs just over half say they currently feel they're helping others through their work. Gallup asked about barriers standing in the way, about half-sided insufficient pay as one factor that could prevent them from pursuing such a job, and close to half said jobs
that make a positive difference are hard or emotionally draining, and reassure and PR news. And World Cup soccer, American star, Christian Policic, hopes to be on the pitch Thursday when the U.S. plays its final group match against Turkey. Policic says he now feels great after missing a match with a calf injury. He says he nearly played in the U.S. victory over Australia, but was held back to get closer
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